Gazette Daily News Podcast, September 27

Tuesday's weather will be sunny and cool. According to the National Weather Service, there will be a high of 64 degrees in the Cedar Rapids area. There will be a wind of 5 to 15 that could gust as high as 20 mph. Tuesday night it will be clear, with a low of around 32 degrees. The wind will calm as Tuesday comes to an end.

In an emotional meeting Monday, the Cedar Rapids school board accepted Superintendent Noreen Bush’s resignation effective June 30, 2023.

Bush, who went on medical leave last week, will remain superintendent during her medical leave and through June 30, 2023. She was diagnosed with cancer about two and a half years ago.

“I absolutely love our district,” Bush said via Zoom video during the meeting. “I absolutely love serving as superintendent. And so it comes with a heavy heart to ask for the acceptance of my resignation … My greatest hope is I have an unbelievable miracle land in my lap, and on June 30, I am able to exit as superintendent and still serve (the district), perhaps back in the classroom.”

Continuing her career in education as a teacher or principal would “fill my heart with joy,” Bush said. For now, Bush said she is deciding to focus on her health and her family as she continues her cancer battle.

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid Monday in a test run for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

According to the Associated Press, NASA tested the asteroid ramming technique on a harmless asteroid 7 million miles away, with a spacecraft named Dart plowing into the space rock at 14,000 mph. Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, alter the asteroid’s orbit.

Though the impact was immediately obvious it will be days or even weeks to determine how much the asteroid’s path was changed.

The $325 million mission was the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid or any other natural object in space.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is warning that voters should be on the lookout for election misinformation after an Iowa voter reportedly received a phone call with incorrect voting instructions.

According to the Iowa Capitol Dispatch, Pate’s office was told last week that a Mahaska County voter received a call from an out-of-state number. The caller told him he did not need to return his absentee ballot to his county auditor’s office but could just register his vote over the phone.

Voting over the phone is not possible, and as the voter had not requested an absentee ballot, he refused and reported the incident.

The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the call. Pate asked Iowans who have received similar calls to contact his office at (515) 281-0145.