Rising prices affect busing students, school lunches and construction
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Rising prices affect busing students, school lunches and construction
Iowa organizations encouraging alternatives to abortion may see increased demand if abortion laws change. But $500,000 the Legislature allocated to expand these services is not yet available.
Violations rise as closing nears for state-run facility.
Available for adoption at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control
An Iowa GOP election bill from 2021 moved 294,000 Iowans to inactive status for not voting in the 2020 general election. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, now running for Iowa Secretary of State, says 80 percent of Linn County’s deactivated voters still are inactive, which is “one step closer” to being canceled. We’ll check those claims.
The school is the second elementary to be opened under the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s facility master plan, which is expected to lower operational costs for the district and address uneven distribution of resources
Fishers on the Tennessee side of the Mississippi River are told: don’t eat the fish because they may contain high levels of contaminants. But on the other side of the same river, in Arkansas, fishers find no such warnings. Those state-issued fish consumption advisories for the Mississippi River make it difficult to make informed health decisions, experts say.
Iowa’s fish consumption guidelines are now based on tissue sampling, but state officials want to move to a system based on size of fish, regardless of where they swim.
The road to recapturing U.S. House and Senate majorities and “restoring common sense” in Washington, D.C., to fight inflation, combat rising crime and secure the U.S.-Mexico border runs through Iowa, according to a slate of Republican speakers.
It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
After two years of mild flu seasons, experts are warning that this year’s season may start earlier and be worse. Some countries in the southern hemisphere are seeing a return to pre-pandemic flu case numbers as COVID-19 mitigation practices are relaxed.
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