The state City Development Board last week rejected the town of Luther’s petition to disincorporate. Right now, the meeting minutes don’t appear to be online, but there was a post about it on the town’s Facebook page with a copy of a letter from one of the board members saying she thought the town could still make a go of it.
This is the second disincorporation petition to be rejected recently; Searsboro tried to do it in 2011. (NOTE: The Wikipedia entry for Searsboro is wrong. It is still an incorporated community, and on the complete list from the Secretary of State’s office.)
On a semi-related note, when the Iowa Department of Economic Development became the Iowa Economic Development Authority in late 2011, it dropped the eight-year slogan “Iowa Life Changing” and now the Web domain with that name has been taken over by something plugging e-cigarettes. The state really should have held on to that, because who knows how many web pages are out there with links to that domain, all of which are being redirected to something the state of Iowa doesn’t want to be associated with in the least.