Cedar Rapids resident Cathy Folkers was hospitalized for 89 days with COVID-19, moving in and out of the intensive care unit. The cost of her stay? More than $1 million. Fortunately for her the cost was covered entirely by Medicaid
Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society
Brothers Mark and John Wagner of Dubuque began canoeing the Mississippi River headwaters for about a week each year beginning in 2016. This Sunday, Mark Wagner will present about their journey from Lake Itasca in Minnesota to Dubuque.
At last week’s Marion City Council meeting, officials directed city staff to formalize a timeline and prepare documents to move forward with the fully micro-transit option, which would be in partnership with Horizons. The city is waiting for resident survey results to fully commit to the plan.
It may come as a surprise to city dwellers excited by their home values that countless farmers are experiencing a real estate boom that makes residential prices pale in comparison.
Members of the commission shall be residents of Johnson County and demonstrate a positive interest in historic preservation, possessing interest or expertise in architecture history, historic preservation, planning, building rehabilitation, conservation in general or real estate.
Sheriff Brad Kunkel said the program, which has a targeted start date of April 1 and is funded with pandemic relief dollars, continues the county’s effort to find ways to divert people from jail and reduce the jail population, while also keeping victims safe.
Rep. Cindy Axne, the Democrat representing Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, touted her 2021 accomplishments in an end-of-year report published last month. The Gazette’s Fact Checker team takes a look at some of her claims.
The discussions surrounding the proposed $194 million fiscal 2023 budget will be some of the toughest the council has had due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and state property tax reforms, City Manager Geoff Fruin told council members earlier this month.
When the University of Iowa celebrates its 175th anniversary next month, it plans to highlight three areas in which faculty have made transformational differences across the state, nation, and world: writing, space discovery and medicine.
Firefighters responded at 3:51 p.m. when a 911 caller reported the fire at 488 Drake Street SW, located north of the Kirkwood Community College main campus.
The new law “does not discriminate on the basis of the viewpoint of the offender,” wrote District Judge Derek Johnson.
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