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Departing Iowa GOP Senate Staffer Filing Sexual Harassment Suit: Iowa City Daily News Links, May 21

ALSO: another Regina bomb threat suspect arrested, Joensy's of Solon resurrected in Iowa City, storm coverage from Oklahoma and Iowa, and U.S. Cellular to leave Coral Ridge Mall.

We made it through this round of storms OK. On to enjoying some nicer weather.

On to the Links!

From Vanessa Miller of the Gazette, police have arrested another person allegedly involved in the Regina bomb threats last year.

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A woman who was fired Friday after working as a staffer for the Iowa State Senate Republicans is filing a sexual harassment suit against her former employers. The woman claims that her firing came soon after she wrote a memo complaining about the behavior. (Des Moines Register)

For her part, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds said she didn't experience any sexual harassment while in the Iowa Republican Senate. (Des Moines Register)

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Speaking of Reynolds, her and Gov. Terry Branstad announced a social media campaign yesterday geared at spurring Iowa home sales. (Des Moines Register)

Associated Press coverage of the terrible damage caused by the tornado to Moore, Oklahoma yesterday. (on Press-Citizen)

Iowa thankfully made it through mostly OK after this round of storms passed through. (Press-Citizen)

Luke Voelz of the Iowa City Press-Citizen caught up with a vocal teacher in Iowa City who has gone from sweltering to prospering in her one year of operations.

Joensy's, a longtime staple of Solon cuisine, has reopened in a new location in northern Iowa City. (Press-Citizen)

Voelz scores a daily links hat trick, writing that U.S. Cellular is leaving the Coral Ridge Mall soon to consolidate resources.

Adam Sullivan of the Press-Citizen has a nice profile up on a departing Iowa City teacher.

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

In the memo that Anderson believes led to her firing, she says: “While constructive criticism is fair, the timing and the nature of the criticisms leveled against me suggest it really isn’t about my work but about my complaints.”

In an interview with the Register Monday, Anderson, a married mother of a toddler son, said she complained about a pattern of male senators and staffers making sexually-charged comments. She made her complaints verbally more than once, as early as last fall, she said.

Anderson described the incidents, but didn’t want to name names, saying this “is not about public embarrassment. My goal is to change the work environment at the Capitol.”

 


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