As the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity and Linn County families grapple with recovery from the 2020 derecho, Feed Iowa First expanded equitable access to land for farming as well as distribution of healthy food.
Enjoy the winter weather and learn some new outdoor skills at the Winter Family Fun Day this Saturday at Fontana Park in Hazleton. Register in advance at the Buchanan County website.
Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, welcomes everyone to join an online presentation “An Innovator Abroad” by guest Rick Steves on Sunday at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Register for the event through Vesterheim’s website.
North Liberty Scouts BSA Troop 216 will host its 42nd annual Chili Supper on Feb. 5. Due to the pandemic, only pre-sale orders will be taken and the ordering deadline was Jan. 15
Treasury officials predicted they’d see delays caused by the pandemic, years of budget cuts to the IRS and federal stimulus measures that have added to the workload.
Cedar Rapids City Council member Ashley Vanorny was among speakers Monday at a “People’s Condition of the State” event hosted Progress Iowa and featuring representative from a number of Democratic-leaning organizations.
During a event conducted over Zoom, individuals shouted and drew a racial epithet and posted an image of a monkey on the shared screen for all participants to see.
Iowa’s public universities for years have requested legislative funding increases — promising to commit the extra tens of millions they sought to student aid, mental health, and more recently hybrid learning in an age of COVID-19 — but the asks have fallen flat.
A judge Friday will determine competence of Cedar Rapids teen accused of fatally stabbing his parents. If found incompetent, the case will remain on hold until the teen’s competence is restored.
Talks between Steindler Orthopedic Clinic and an unnamed hospital system to build a new inpatient hospital alongside an ambulatory surgery center in what’s fast becoming a health care hub in North Liberty are ongoing — but they’re not moving fast enough to merit state consideration at this time.
Marion will get $40,000 and Hiawatha $10,000 to help replant tree canopies lost in the 2020 derecho.
Judging by the opening-day remarks delivered Monday by leaders in the Iowa Legislature, Republicans and Democrats have decidedly different views about how to attract more workers and people to Iowa, whose population has been stagnant for a decade.
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