1. Downtown Muscatine

   Hello, everyone! We're trying out this new Community Voice feature of our website and we'd like to get some conversation started. With the topic of discussion being downtown Muscatine, what are your...
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   Hello, everyone! We're trying out this new Community Voice feature of our website and we'd like to get some conversation started. With the topic of discussion being downtown Muscatine, what are your thoughts about the area? What do you like or not like about 2nd Street and the downtown area? How might we work together to improve it? The City looks forward to the discussion on this thread and values your input and participation!

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   Jan 14, 2016 by Emily Lofgren (7 points)

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   Hello, everyone! We're trying out this new Community Voice feature of our website and we'd like to get some conversation started. With the topic of discussion being downtown Muscatine, what are your thoughts about the area? What do you like or not like about 2nd Street and the downtown area? How might we work together to improve it? The City looks forward to the discussion on this thread and values your input and participation!

2. Eliminate unconstitutional traffic cameras

   Guilty until proven innocent. No right to face your accuser (a camera). Unconstitutional. Period. If you, or anyone that happens to be driving your car, are convicted (unconstitutionally) by a CAMERA...
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   Guilty until proven innocent. No right to face your accuser (a camera). Unconstitutional. Period. If you, or anyone that happens to be driving your car, are convicted (unconstitutionally) by a CAMERA then YOU are (supposedly) mailed a ticket. If you do not receive and/or respond (to the ticket that was supposedly mailed) with payment in full then your state income tax refund will be withheld and deducted TWICE the original amount of the ticket!! That's right. NO QUESTIONS ASKED! NOTHING! GUILTY! THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! How do we let this stand? Let's do something about it.

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   May 9, 2015 by Wile E (5 points)

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   Guilty until proven innocent. No right to face your accuser (a camera). Unconstitutional. Period. If you, or anyone that happens to be driving your car, are convicted (unconstitutionally) by a CAMERA then YOU are (supposedly) mailed a ticket. If you do not receive and/or respond (to the ticket that was supposedly mailed) with payment in full then your state income tax refund will be withheld and deducted TWICE the original amount of the ticket!! That's right. NO QUESTIONS ASKED! NOTHING! GUILTY! THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! How do we let this stand? Let's do something about it.

3. six men are paddling up the mississippi on their way to the arctic ocean. they will paddle through Muskatine on march 19

   Check out www.rediscoverna.com. you might want to greet them and smile! They've been on the river since Jan 2nd. 75 days! Please say hi to big John, he is my son!

   Mar 18, 2015 by jan keaveny (5 points)

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   Check out www.rediscoverna.com. you might want to greet them and smile! They've been on the river since Jan 2nd. 75 days! Please say hi to big John, he is my son!

4. Have the city attorney file charges on all of the council members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   These men do not want to work with an elected official so that is a dereliction of duty and they should be reprimanded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Jan 13, 2017 by Alvin Wagner (5 points)

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   These men do not want to work with an elected official so that is a dereliction of duty and they should be reprimanded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Tell use your ideas for the 2018 City Council

   January is budget time for the Muscatine City Council with the Council listening to budget requests from the various City departments for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. What items would you like to see...
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   January is budget time for the Muscatine City Council with the Council listening to budget requests from the various City departments for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. What items would you like to see placed for consideration in the City budget negotiations? Streets? Sidewalks? Housing? What's most important to you as a taxpayer.

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   Dec 12, 2017 by Kevin Jenison (7 points)

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   January is budget time for the Muscatine City Council with the Council listening to budget requests from the various City departments for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. What items would you like to see placed for consideration in the City budget negotiations? Streets? Sidewalks? Housing? What's most important to you as a taxpayer.

6. I would like to see pine street/west second street building in use

   This building has had the same wedding date on there for the past 3 years! Also would like to see something done with the building on corner of Mulberry by the mexican restaurant Olimita and close to...
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   This building has had the same wedding date on there for the past 3 years! Also would like to see something done with the building on corner of Mulberry by the mexican restaurant Olimita and close to the downtown HyVee. It has been wrapped up in Caution tags for I don't know how long. Also I have had a complaint about 323 west 2nd street house for a long time with no help from the city. I have called and complained in August also I went to city hall and complained in October. There is trash in the front yard that are not in the correct trash containers. Also a bucket of water that has been sitting there for months. Also trash in the backyard, grills not working, a board that they were throwing knives at. I am tired of the filth by my house. I have two young children. I don't want rats, mice, raccoons, the zika virus in our neighborhood.

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   Jan 4, 2017 by Meg Hamilton (10 points)

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   This building has had the same wedding date on there for the past 3 years! Also would like to see something done with the building on corner of Mulberry by the mexican restaurant Olimita and close to the downtown HyVee. It has been wrapped up in Caution tags for I don't know how long. Also I have had a complaint about 323 west 2nd street house for a long time with no help from the city. I have called and complained in August also I went to city hall and complained in October. There is trash in the front yard that are not in the correct trash containers. Also a bucket of water that has been sitting there for months. Also trash in the backyard, grills not working, a board that they were throwing knives at. I am tired of the filth by my house. I have two young children. I don't want rats, mice, raccoons, the zika virus in our neighborhood.

7. Clean energy

   Let's make muscatine the leader or clean energy. We have the Mississippi River here. Why aren't we utilizing it more. We have wind and solar. This is something we will never run out of, so why aren't...
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   Let's make muscatine the leader or clean energy. We have the Mississippi River here. Why aren't we utilizing it more. We have wind and solar. This is something we will never run out of, so why aren't we utilizing it?

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   Sep 17, 2015 by Brian Nichols (10 points)

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   Let's make muscatine the leader or clean energy. We have the Mississippi River here. Why aren't we utilizing it more. We have wind and solar. This is something we will never run out of, so why aren't we utilizing it?

8. Where are the city issued garbage cans??

   Question: When is the rest of Muscatine going to receive the city issued garbage containers? #1 it would decrease the obviously poor attitudes of garbage collection workers. Evidently being a garbage...
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   Question: When is the rest of Muscatine going to receive the city issued garbage containers? #1 it would decrease the obviously poor attitudes of garbage collection workers. Evidently being a garbage collector doesn't help a person realize they have a job that is of adequate pay when there are many people who would appreciate having a job like that or even a job period. It would help people that spend quite a bit of money on a trash can that can hold up to being thrown in the street to be run over by traffic when emptied by pick up workers and smashed as violently as possible by the pick up workers. My hope is utilizing mechanical advantage would make a more serene working environment for these poor individuals that get every known and unknown holiday off with pay.. #2 would justify the ever increasing cost of our trash pick up At least they have provided containers for every one unlike our City garbage program. Asking:: when we are going to get the Garbage cans.

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   Nov 19, 2015 by Timithy Mittman (5 points)

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   Question: When is the rest of Muscatine going to receive the city issued garbage containers? #1 it would decrease the obviously poor attitudes of garbage collection workers. Evidently being a garbage collector doesn't help a person realize they have a job that is of adequate pay when there are many people who would appreciate having a job like that or even a job period. It would help people that spend quite a bit of money on a trash can that can hold up to being thrown in the street to be run over by traffic when emptied by pick up workers and smashed as violently as possible by the pick up workers. My hope is utilizing mechanical advantage would make a more serene working environment for these poor individuals that get every known and unknown holiday off with pay.. #2 would justify the ever increasing cost of our trash pick up At least they have provided containers for every one unlike our City garbage program. Asking:: when we are going to get the Garbage cans.

9. City Hall Desperately Needs a New Flag!

   Get a new flag...didn't look good on TV

   Jul 17, 2017 by Sheila Howell (5 points)

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   Get a new flag...didn't look good on TV

10. Burning

    Is there a way trash can be compacted like old cars? Also is there a way trash can be burned and the trash filtered through filters that eliminate bad gases?

    Sep 17, 2015 by Brian Nichols (10 points)

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    Is there a way trash can be compacted like old cars? Also is there a way trash can be burned and the trash filtered through filters that eliminate bad gases?

11. Waste to energy projects.

    Let's take all the waste organic material like food out of the waste stream going to the landfill and add it to the City anaerobic digesters to create clean burning renewable fuel.

    Apr 7, 2016 by Jon Koch (5 points)

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    Let's take all the waste organic material like food out of the waste stream going to the landfill and add it to the City anaerobic digesters to create clean burning renewable fuel.

12. Lane lines please

    It would be nice to see some lane lines painted on 5th street between Cedar st. and Iowa ave. Everytiime I turn off Iowa onto 5th st. Someone is pulled clear out into the intersection and so far away...
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    It would be nice to see some lane lines painted on 5th street between Cedar st. and Iowa ave. Everytiime I turn off Iowa onto 5th st. Someone is pulled clear out into the intersection and so far away from the curb I end up barley having room between them and the parked cars. This probably won't help because ppl don't know how to drive but it's worth the try.

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    Nov 27, 2016 by (5 points)

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    It would be nice to see some lane lines painted on 5th street between Cedar st. and Iowa ave. Everytiime I turn off Iowa onto 5th st. Someone is pulled clear out into the intersection and so far away from the curb I end up barley having room between them and the parked cars. This probably won't help because ppl don't know how to drive but it's worth the try.

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