In this installment of Curious Iowa, we answer a question about cleanup of Iowa’s rivers and why natural debris is left behind.
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In this installment of Curious Iowa, we answer a question about cleanup of Iowa’s rivers and why natural debris is left behind.
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One topic dominates the Curious Iowa inbox: roads. Most commonly, readers want to know how roads were named and why. This installment of Curious Iowa is dedicated to these road related curiosities.
Iowa astronauts speak about the work that’s done during missions and the experience of seeing Earth from space.
How does someone who is serving a life sentence pay restitution when most jobs available for prisoners in Iowa pay less than $1 an hour? The short answer is they usually don’t, at least not in full.
Whether it’s a new residential development, or a roundabout on a city street, there’s a lot of planning — and math — that goes into engineering a road.
College Community School District, which serves students in Linn, Benton and Johnson counties, is close to the Kirkwood Community College campus. But Kirkwood is not the district’s namesake.
Are plastic shopping bags really recyclable? While grocers like Hy-Vee and Fareway accept returns of plastic bags in their stores, one Gazette reader wondered whether that’s just an act to make customers feel good. Curious Iowa found out.
And what does What Cheer mean? And why is an Iowa town named Jamaica? This week, Curious Iowa digs into the unique stories behind a few of Iowa’s towns and cities.
THC drinks have been popping up at more and more restaurants and stores. Here’s how they became legal and how they’re different from recreational products sold across Iowa’s borders.
Historians are discovering new information about the Underground Railroad “all the time.”
There are five SSMIDs in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, but what exactly are they? How do they get their money? And who decides how it’s spent? This week, Curious Iowa digs in to find out more about these districts that fuel streetscaping, events, holiday lights, public art and more.
When there’s a snowstorm, how do cities decide which streets to plow first? Curious Iowa looks at how two Eastern Iowa cities of different sizes — Cedar Rapids and Central City — approach snow removal.
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