The Gazette Editorial Board —–   It looks like Johnson County voters will get a chance to weigh in on a proposed justice center this fall, after all. After a week of brinkmanship and bluster about how much to bond for the massive and much-needed project, cooler heads have prevailed on the Johnson County Board [...]

IOWA CITY — It will be all Democrats in Johnson County’s June 8 primary election. County Attorney Janet Lyness, Recorder Kim Painter and Treasurer Tom Kriz filed papers to run in the Democratic primary. No Republicans filed nomination papers by Wednesday’s deadline. As previously reported, incumbent Democratic supervisors Sally Stutsman and Janelle Rettig also are [...]

IOWA CITY - There have been some rumblings about the $75,000 estimate Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett put on the cost of a special election to fill a vacant seat on the Board of Supervisors. Slockett has admitted it’s a very rough estimate. It’s been more than a decade since the last special election to fill [...]

IOWA CITY - Curious what Johnson County officials and members of the public had to say about replacing Supervisor Larry Meyers, who died in September?  So was I, which is why, earlier this month, I filed an open records request with the county. I asked County Attorney Janet Lyness for “access to all correspondence to and from [...]

  There’s no question in my mind that recently appointed Johnson County supervisor Janelle Rettig is qualified for the job. She’s worked on city, county and state boards and commissions, for a state representative and U.S. Congressman. She has been an effective advocate for issues she believes in. She gets work done. Even if there [...]

IOWA CITY - Eight people will be interviewed for an open seat on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, an appointment committee decided Tuesday. Sixteen people had applied for the position, which became vacant when Larry Meyers died last month. The new supervisor will sit on the board until the November 2010 election. In accordance with [...]