Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Iowa Water and Land Legacy coalition on Tuesday announced that Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie and more than a dozen other elected officials and business leaders have joined the effort to secure a sales tax increase to fund the natural resources trust fund. Cownie is one of seven mayors to join the coalition along with Ron Corbett of Cedar Rapids, Jon Kruse of Storm Lake, Bob Scott of Sioux City, Jim Erb of Charles City, John Lundell of Coralville and Ed Malloy of Fairfield.