Regents Ask for $39.5 Million to Replace Tuition Set-Aside and More Cedar Falls Daily News Links

The Iowa Board of Regents has asked the Iowa legislature for $39.5 million to fund scholarships that were previously paid for with a tuition set-aside program. That program was suspended after criticsm last year. (Cedar Rapids Gazette)

Holmes Junior High Principal David Welter's good work has not gone unnoticed: at a gala event in Washington, D.C., he was one of 18 people named a State Afterschool Champion for his support of programs in Cedar Falls. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

Iowa Rep. Walt Rogers (R-Cedar Falls) is sponsoring traffic camera legislation again this year, but this time he wants the money the camera's generate to funnell into the state’s road fund, which has a $215 million backlog in critical road repairs. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

Bad news for farmers: Iowa is vulnerable to continuing drought in 2013, according to a climatologist Brian Fuchs. (Cedar Rapids Gazette)

Iowa GOP leaders say they will likely fight against Medicaid expansion in the Iowa House. Iowa Democrats contended that sticking with the old system will mean spending more for less quality. (Des Moines Register)