Johnnie Each, a junior at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, is Iowa’s second student poetry ambassador. The program began in 2021, inspired by presidential inauguration poet Amanda Gorman.
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Johnnie Each, a junior at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, is Iowa’s second student poetry ambassador. The program began in 2021, inspired by presidential inauguration poet Amanda Gorman.
Redmond Jones II comes to Iowa City with more than two decades of experience in local government, including work on police community relations, economic development, neighborhood services and sustainability.
It’s been about two-and-a-half years since “generate,” an innovation lab, opened in St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. So far, 375 inventions have been built by clinicians in the space, even as the hospital grappled with COVID-19.
Under the new law, cities including Cedar Rapids and Iowa City will no longer be able to restrict firework sales to only certain zoning categories.
The joint effort between Republican governors will include sharing intelligence and criminal investigation information
Increasing coronavirus transmission rates and new COVID-19 cases across Johnson County is a result of an emergence of BA.2, a subvariant of omicron, federal data shows. A local expert says this latest stage of the pandemic highlights the importance of vaccines and booster shots.
The transportation secretary said the bridges aren’t Democrat or Republican, even though only 19 Republican U.S. senators voted for the funding along with two Republican U.S. House members
The crime was a home invasion robbery in Cedar Rapids in which a gun was fired.
The state will receive an extra $5.3 million to help lower Iowans’ home energy bills this summer
64 years after joining the prestigious Association of American Universities, Iowa State University on Thursday announced it’s leaving the group.
A judge will not lower bail for Timothy Rush, one of the suspects charged in the Taboo nightclub shooting in Cedar Rapids. The bail remains $1.5 million for the man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend and mother of his child, Nicole Owens.
A third of degree-seeking students recently polled by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation said they considered dropping out in the last six months – largely due to “emotional stress” – capturing the scope and gravity of mental health needs facing today’s college students, including those in Iowa.
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