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North Liberty moves forward with sewer line despite landowners lawsuit

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Landowner: It would just put a stake through my heart for them to do this

January 9, 2015 | 7:52 pm

NORTH LIBERTY Gary Weinman walked through his prairie on a frigid afternoon Friday with warm memories.

It would just put a stake through my heart for them to do this, he said, tearing up. My daughter got married under those trees.

Weinman, a Johnson County property owner, in November filed a lawsuit against the City of North Liberty to try to stop the construction of a sewer line on his property a sewer line which would in part serve the Iowa City Community School Districts proposed Liberty High School.

He was given notice Friday that the city has set a condemnation hearing for Feb. 13. The hearing would allow the city to move forward with the sewer construction.

Weinman and one of his attorneys said they will seek a temporary injunction from a court to stop that process based on environmental and jurisdictional concerns.

That attempt that does not stand a good chance of succeeding, according to Kevin Caster, a Cedar Rapids attorney who has experience in eminent domain cases.

I cant guarantee you that a court is going to interpret this in the citys favor, Caster said. But my hunch is the citys in a better position on this argument than the property owner is.

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Liberty County judge looking toward economic development

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Liberty County Judge Jay Knight is quickly settling in and already hard at work Thursday afternoon, Jan. 8, near the end of his first full week in office, and while Administrative Assistant Dede Taylor may still have to help him find the right button to push when he needs to answer the phone, Knight is eager to get on top of the bigger challenges he and the county commissioners will face in the new year.

I want to work on economic development, Knight said, and he wants to focus on the long term, looking 10 to 15 years down the road.

He spent nine years on the board of the Dayton Community Development Corporation (DCDC) and wants to use his position as county judge to facilitate more cooperation between the DCDC, the Liberty Community Development Corporation (LCDC), and the Cleveland Economic Development Corporation (EDC).

What were trying to do now is not have the DCDC and the one in Cleveland and the LCDC all working separately, but all working together through the auspices of the county judges office, he said.

Acknowledging there is, and always will be, some competition between the cities, Knight is committed to encouraging cooperation, too, explaining that growth anywhere in the county will benefit everyone living here. Besides the traditional rivalry between the cities of Liberty and Dayton, he worries that the folks in Cleveland may feel they are sometimes treated as if they are a not even a part of Liberty County, and he said he wants to work to overcome that.

Getting the three working together and keeping them working together is my goal, he said.

Describing his plans, Knight quoted President John F. Kennedys line, A rising tide raises all boats.

He wants to promote industrial development. The potential for the growth of industry here is our future, he said, while adding, I dont want to lose our identity, meaning Liberty County as a rural and agricultural area.

Thursday afternoon, the county judge talked a bit about his late father, Joe Knight. Family was on his mind, as it would be since his mother, Mary Knight, had passed away only the night before.

Joe Knight was the manager for American Rice Growers in Dayton for more than three decades, and Judge Knight recalled his fathers reaction in 1979 when he first learned of President Jimmy Carters declaration of the grain embargo against Russia, and the elder Knight told his son, The way of life you grew up with here just ended.

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2008 Custom built Liberty home in Springfield Farms, Springfield, Mo – Video

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2008 Custom built Liberty home in Springfield Farms, Springfield, Mo
2008 Custom built Liberty home. 1920 square feet of living space. absolutely gorgeous interior, roomy kitchen with lots of cabinets, center island, updated appliances, countertops and...

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John Malone transfers control of TripAdvisor to Liberty CEO

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On Dec. 22, a week before Greg Maffei re-upped as CEO of Liberty Media, chairman John Malone gave the executive control of TripAdvisor, regulatory filings show.

Perhaps Malone thought of the move as a signing bonus or a holiday gesture.

But for control-freak Malone, swapping his super-voting shares in Liberty TripAdvisor for Maffeis common shares was unprecedented, sources said.

Maffei thought so, too.

[Malone] became an A holder and I became the B holder, Maffei said at a conference on Wednesday, of the exchange that loaded him up with 10-votes-per-share Class B Liberty TripAdvisor stock.

Maffei then explained that, given Malones wealth and portfolio, it wasnt a huge amount and front-and-center in his mind. So he was probably kind enough to say, Greg, you take this one.

It was so kind that Maffeis interviewer noted, Its the first time Ive ever seen you turn red. However, on delving into the details, the exchange wasnt as simple as it seems.

Maffei gave Malone 3.0 million common A shares valued at $26.97per share, or $82.2 million on the day of the exchange.

Malone, in turn, gave Maffei 2.8 million super-voting B shares valued at $26.66 a share, or $73.9 million.

This means the package Malone received from the exchange netted him $8.3 million.

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