TRAER -- Robert Roger Engel, 88, of Traer, died Sunday, Jan. 12, at MercyOne Hospital in Waterloo; services 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17, at Overton Funeral Home, Traer, (319) 478-2775, with burial at ...

Paul Arlo Hulme, 94, of Traer, died , at MercyOne Hospital in Waterloo. Arrangements: Overton Funeral Home, Traer. Judy E. Kampman, 71, of Cedar Falls ...

Bruce A. Overton, 66, of Traer, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, at his home in Traer. Visitation will be Tuesday from 3 to 7 p.m., with services at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, all at Zion Lutheran Church in ...

Overton claimed that politicians typically act freely only within the "window" of those seen as acceptable. After his death, his Mackinac Center for Public Policy colleague, Joseph Lehman, further developed the idea and named it after him.

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The concept of the Overton window was developed in the 1990s by Joseph Overton, a libertarian political scientist. The model portrays a spectrum of positions, with more government regulation on one end and less government regulation on the other end.

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