Erin Jordan

Homes and businesses of the Little Mexico neighborhood in Cedar Rapids were razed in the 1960s to build I-380 in Cedar Rapids. Dozens of immigrant families were displaced. The notion of erasing a non-white neighborhood to make way for progress is now seen through a different lens.

Scientists with the Iowa Geological Survey say Iowa has the underground infrastructure for carbon dioxide sequestration, which would allow Iowa to keep more of the federal tax credits for CO2 storage and have fewer miles of new pipelines.

The Iowa Farm Bureau this week elected a Calhoun County farmer to succeed Craig Hill, who retired after 10 years leading the powerful farm group.

Pam Ries said she was replaced by a younger man paid more money

Money from American Rescue Plan Act is on top of $110 million coming from federal infrastructure package for drinking water infrastructure.

More than 30 people spoke out against a carbon dioxide pipeline proposed to run through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, at an informational meeting Monday night in Cedar Rapids.

Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta indicated volleyball coach Vicki Brown’s mid-season firing was for a lackluster win-loss record. A program review that preceded the decision involved human resources and faculty reps meeting with players and staff individually.

The Family Folk Machine, an Iowa City-based intergenerational choir and band, is looking for new members for its spring session starting in January.

Gov. Kim Reynolds in June signed a bill that allows Iowa animal feeding operations to exceed confinement capacity if they install an anaerobic digester to treat all manure.

A Hills man faces charges including second-degree fraud based on allegations he turned back the odometers on 14 vehicles before reselling them for a profit between January and July.

Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.

The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a district court decision that the state is not wrongfully denying liberty to sex offenders who aren’t eligible for parole because they haven’t been able to get into a required treatment program in Iowa’s prison system.

Although deer don’t seem to get COVID-19 symptoms, scientists worry the animals could serve as reservoirs for the virus to hang around and possibly be transmitted back to humans.

The board governing Iowa’s medical marijuana program plans to ask the Iowa Legislature to allow the state public health department to decide how many dispensaries there should be — and where they should be located — rather than restricting dispensary licenses to five.

“Suicide by cop” situations have risen in Iowa and across the country. The increase could be spurred by the pandemic, which has caused higher rates of depression and more suicide attempts by young people, but it’s a challenge for law enforcement.