Option tax vote friends may be foes

Option tax vote friends may be foes

A goodie from behind the Gazette wall:

Last-minute legislation in the Iowa Legislature will end proposals for the schools and cities in Linn and Johnson counties to join forces to pass a local-option sales tax.

Instead, the legislation (House File 2792) could pit the schools and cities in the two counties against one another in a race to see who can get a tax on the ballot first.