West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

Heland & WB City Attorney buddy up and travel together.

Spike outs Jeff Heland and West Burlington City Attorney Mitch Taylor. Looks like these two are joined at the hips - enough so that Taylor offered to pay Heland’s tab for a trip to Washington DC.

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Obama to conceal Union contributions.

Fifty years ago, Congress passed the landmark Landrum-Griffin Act to protect rank-and-file union members from malfeasance by union leaders. Senate hearings had uncovered serious corruption and other unethical practices inside the labor movement, and a bipartisan coalition emerged to shine the light of disclosure on union practices.

Nevertheless, Democrats in Congress and in the executive branch have often attempted to undercut that law's financial reporting and disclosure requirements. Prior to reforms adopted in the George W. Bush administration, for example, one union could get away with reporting a $62 million expenditure as nothing more than "contributions, gifts, and grants to local affiliates" -- with no further explanation. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is already showing that it wants to return to this nontransparent standard of financial disclosure.

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5/5/09 – 12:01 p.m. at 122 Broadway, West Burlington.
James E Bielser, 60, 907 N. Front St., Oquawka, IL; disorderly conduct.

5/4/09 – 3:20 p.m. at 701 E. Pennington Apt. 103, West Burlington.
Emily Christine Warth, 24, same address; disorderly conduct.