Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades.
The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums (UIPM) will debut Tree Tours, a new educational program series. Guests will embark on guided strolls featuring ecological diversity, symbolism, history and lore of notable tree species on campus. The first tour is noon on Friday.
Iowa’s Walking Club is holding a group-guided hike on May 7 in Cedar Rapids. There will be 5K and 10K options for walkers.
A decommissioned World War II-era destroyer, named after the Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, docked near downtown Buffalo in New York is taking on water and listing perilously but officials believed it would be saved.
See what’s new this season and what changes are in store as recreational users flock to the hiking tails and biking trails in Linn and Johnson counties, in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas.
The $81.5 million First and First West project roughly doubles the investment in Kingston Village. Plans to fill the flood-damaged site with a casino were dashed, but the Cedar Rapids neighborhood quickly grew while the prime real estate sat empty.
The impasse over Reynolds’ private school tuition assistance proposal may be the most significant element of legislators’ attempts to finish their work for the session. It’s something Reynolds has spent multiple years pushing and Senate Republicans have backed. But the resistance where it exists within the House Republican caucus has been firm.
In addition to vouchers, K-12 transparency, unemployment benefits, a proposed ethanol mandate, and the bottle bill remain on lawmakers’ to-do list.
The university has conducted more than 600 deep brain stimulation surgeries, according to Greenlee, who’s done many of them. And the hospital recently put out a request for bids from suppliers of deep brain stimulation technology in hopes of keeping its surgical offerings on the cutting edge.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: a presidential visit; ESA opposition, infanticide and ballot question
The attack took place in April 2021 at an apartment complex in Marion. His trial will now be scheduled.
The attorney was accused of misappropriating clients’ funds. He reportedly pocketed funds for himself and didn’t inform clients of a court’s judgment.
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