The George, Gladys and Ruth Drips Endowed Scholarship Fund to begin distributing scholarships in May
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The George, Gladys and Ruth Drips Endowed Scholarship Fund to begin distributing scholarships in May
With little debate or discord — after months of twists and turns and objections — a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday approved the sale of Iowa City’s only community hospital Mercy Iowa City to the University of Iowa for $28 million.
The state of Iowa will consider paying $2 million to the daughters of a Muscatine woman who died during an MRI at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2018 from an allergic reaction to the contrast dye administered intravenously.
Also, Mount Vernon Road in Cedar Rapids reopens
New chiefs of schools hired to oversee three school ‘areas,’ provide coaching to principals in the Cedar Rapids Community School District
As Monday’s final sale hearing approaches in the historic and heated bankruptcy of Iowa City’s oldest and only-remaining community hospital, precarious deals are being tested by objections and rising tempers – including from Mercy Hospital partners and creditors unlikely to get the millions they’re due.
The threat quickly was determined by police to be unfounded and classes in the district went on uninterrupted. But the threat was then shared by others on social media.
In Linn County, the trickle-down effect of state and national politics seems to have swayed campaign donors in some Cedar Rapids and Linn-Mar school board races that are on the ballot Nov. 7, with right-leaning candidates out-raising some incumbents.
The group leading the charge to pass Cedar Rapids’ $220 million school bond referendum on Nov. 7 is relying on voter outreach and trying to combat public confusion over what’s part of the bond issue.
A day after Iowa Democratic Party leadership condemned the University of Iowa student Democrats for an “antisemitic” social media post, calling on student organization leaders to resign, the chair of the state party’s Arab American caucus accused his party leadership of misquoting the students and called for an apology.
After finding a passion for research in high school, Jasmyn Hoeger works in a medical science lab as a student at UI
The University Democrats of Iowa statement expressed support for Palestine while using the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’ which has a complex and sometimes antisemitic history.
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