Top 9 of Iowa: Rep. Steve King on Animal Cruelty, UNI's Ben Allen to Retire, and Gold, Gabby, Gold!
Also, in Eastern Iowa, a missing Alabama teenager with Iowa City ties was found unharmed in Cedar Rapids.
Why nine? Because the Patch community includes nine sites in Iowa: Ankeny, Ames, Cedar Falls, Iowa City, Johnston, Marion, Urbandale, Waukee and West Des Moines.
Each week, Patch compiles the top stories from around the state. Kick back, and enjoy.
9. Police in Marion helped search a cornfield in Linn County this week for a man who walked away from a work release assignment. The man is still at large.
8. Love'em or hate'em, a week is never complete in Iowa unless U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, is taking shots for one thing or another. This week, Ames Patch reports that King is being accused of making excuses for dog fighting and trying to block Congressional efforts to “crack down on animal abuse.”
7. A cab driver was robbed and shot at early Friday morning when he dropped passengers off at an Urbandale apartment complex.
6. Johnston Boy Scout Troop 44 hosted Kwahadi Dancers this week. More than 200 scouts, leaders, church and community members attended a special, 90-minute performance Tuesday at St. Paul Presbyterian Church.
5. Chad Proehl, a golf pro at the Sugar Creek Golf Course in Waukee, tied for 4th place in the 2012 Iowa PGA Professional Championship in Ames on Tuesday.
4. In Ankeny, Mona Bond wrote a blog questioning whether the housing market in the growing community is over-developed. The topic, to which many communities around the state can relate, is generating a lively discussion that is still going.
3. There was a happy ending in the story of an Alabama teen with Iowa City ties, who had been missing since July 16. Donald Marshall, 16, was discovered unharmed in Cedar Rapids this week.
2. Following a tumultuous year in Cedar Falls, University of Northern Iowa President Ben Allen has announced his plans to retire. Allen has faced intense criticism following the closing of UNI's Malcolm Price Laboratory School, which was a teaching lab for future teachers and a K-12 school for about 350 kids in the Cedar Valley.
1. Who else? This year's darling of the London 2012 Olympics - gold medal winner, Gabby Douglas. Douglas, who has lived and trained in West Des Moines for the past two years, made history today as the first African-American Olympic all-around champion in gymnastics.
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1:37 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
King's attempted walk-back on his earlier apparent support for dog fighting doesn't really negate his original statement or his overall anti-animal stance in general. In a number of separate statements, he's basically said that as long as abortion is legal in this country, people should be allowed to abuse animals. Seriously. WTF? Go read his remarks, that's the bizarre case he makes. And this sort of tortured logic fits into his overall modus operandi: King is clearly on the record, in multiple instances, as wanting to gut regulations, including bi-partisan statues, aimed at lessening the suffering of the animals we rely on for food and other products. I live in Iowa, but don't live in the 4th so can't vote for Christie Vilsack. So I'm writing this in the hope than anyone still undecided about who to vote for in November will consider Steve King's stunning lack of simple human compassion when it comes to our companion animals and food animals and cast their vote for Christie. And no, I'm not a vegan, or a communist, or even a liberal-from-Mars-out-to-steal-your-guns. I'm someone who thinks our domestic animals depend on us humans for everything that happens to them. It's our responsibility to treat them with some kind of basic decency.