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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.

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.

Expanding 4-year-old preschool, improving teacher and staff recruitment and retention among top priorities

Nearly a year after Kirkwood Community College announced the closure of its 32-year-old Iowa City campus on the southeast side of town, Oral-B Laboratories has agreed to buy the 84,277-square-foot property for $6.4 million – pending 120 days of “due diligence.”

Just southeast of where the ballooning University of Iowa Health Care operation is planning to build a new $1 billion inpatient tower, UI President Barbara Wilson on Tuesday surveyed a hole in the ground that will – among many things – make that new tower possible.