(Radio Iowa) – The largest employer in Cedar Rapids has a new leader. Troy Brunk has been named president of Collins Aerospace. Brunk has led three of the six business units at Collins in Cedar Rapids. He will report directly to the C-E-O of R-T-X — formerly known as Raytheon.

It’s the company that acquired Collins Aerospace in a merger back in 2020. Brunk replaces Stephen Timm, who is retiring after a 28 year career with Collins. About seven-thousand people work at Collins Aerospace in Cedar Rapids.

(Radio Iowa) – There’s an unresolved legal challenge to the law that would ban most abortions in Iowa — and Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa will continue to provide abortions up to the 20th week of a pregnancy until further action from the courts.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on June 28th that a six-week abortion ban is legal under Iowa’s constitution, but the A-C-L-U of Iowa has filed a petition asking the justices to rehear the case. The district court judge who would lift the injunction that’s blocked the law from taking effect cannot act until that matter is resolved. Ruth Richardson is the president and C-E-O of Planned Parenthood of North Central States.

She says the situation is temporary relief and once the nearly total ban on abortions in Iowa goes into effect, Planned Parenthood has developed plans to help patients get out of state abortions if their pregnancy is beyond that early window. Francesca Turner is an OB-GYN in Des Moines and a member of Iowans for Health Liberty. She says there are many complications during pregnancy and they might not be considered life threatening under the law’s exception for life of the mother.

“It’s not our jobs as physicians to tell women what to do,” she said, “but we need to give them the options and allow them to take the risks that they choose for themselves and their family.”

The law has other exceptions for fetal abnormalities and for victims of rape and incest who quickly report the assaults to police.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak report a Red Oak man who was arrested late Friday night on an OWI charge, was arrested again this (Sunday) afternoon, on an Assault charge. Authorities say 34-year-old Kristopher Carl Friesenhahn was taken into custody at around 2:35-p.m. on the simple misdemeanor offense. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors will meet in a brief, Special Session beginning at 9-a.m. on Tuesday, July 23rd, in the Cass County Courthouse Board Room. The only action item on their agenda, is approval of a Special Class-C Retail Alcohol License.

The Board’s next Regular meeting is on August 6th.

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(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors will meet in a regular weekly session beginning at 8:30-a.m., Tuesday, July 23rd (2024). New business on their agenda includes discussion and possible action with regard to a resolution “Objecting to the Iowa Utilities Board’s (known now as the Iowa Utilities Commission, or IUC) authority to enact Eminent Domain authority within Montgomery County, for privately-owned and operated carbon dioxide pipelines.”

The commission last month approved a proposal by Summit Carbon Solutions to construct about 690 miles of pipe in Iowa to transport captured carbon dioxide from ethanol plants. The company has already sought to expand its footprint by more than 300 feet to connect to more of the facilities. Opposition to the use of eminent domain — in which Summit will be able to force unwilling landowners to host its pipeline network — is a common thread of many objections by landowners across the State, and the attorney’s representing them, as well as conservation groups such as the Sierra Club and Bold Iowa.

The Board will also act on approving claims payable on July 24th, in the amount of $99,420.80.

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(Greenfield, Iowa) – Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater reports a man from Bridgewater was cited last week for Harassment in the 3rd Degree. 19-year-old Zachary Dokota Christie detained, cited and then released, Wednesday night (July 17), following an investigation into a complaint from the uncle of a woman who was allegedly being harassed by Christie, by allegedly threatening to post nude pictures of the female, who is 18. Christie allegedly said he would post the pictures if the woman did not “hook up with him,” according to a report by the investigating deputy.

The woman told the deputy she had dated Christie in the past, and that they had talked when she moved to Bridgewater last May. The woman and her uncle showed the deputy screen shots from a social media app with Zachary Christie’s alleged screen name “White Boi AKA Marshmallow,” and an additional user name that was messaging in the victim’s profile. The woman identified the subject’s profile and username as being associated with Christie.

Christie admitted in an interview with the deputy, that he sent the messages to the victim, “because he had gotten mad,” but that he did not actually have any nude pictures of the woman to post. Because the woman felt annoyed and intimidated, she filed a charge of Harassment.