In other Iowa Capitol news, the state’s new unemployment system went live Tuesday
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In other Iowa Capitol news, the state’s new unemployment system went live Tuesday
The Iowa DNR on Tuesday issued a statewide Air Quality Alert through 6 a.m. Thursday. The agency warned that the Air Quality Index may reach the red or unhealthy category in affected areas.
For the first time since airing in 2022 plans to build a new 842,000-square-foot inpatient tower, University of Iowa Health Care has brought the project before the Board of Regents for approval to spend $72.5 million on “early work.”
Closure is to allow for work on Penn Street Interchange reconstruction project
The former owners of Adventureland Park reached a settlement with the parents of an 11-year-old boy who was killed in a water raft ride accident in 2021. Their 15-year-old son was also seriously injured, but survived.
Julie Stauch, of West Des Moines, is the third Democrat to formally announce her candidacy for governor, following state auditor Rob Sand. Stauch, a consultant with political campaign experience, publicly announced her campaign Tuesday.
When the University of Iowa created Chuck Xander’s position two years ago, he was the first veterans-embedded counselor on a university or college campus in Iowa, the first in the Big Ten, and one of the first dedicated to military-connected students in the nation. Since then, he’s held more than 550 therapy sessions with about 100 military and veteran students
The Saturday market hosts roughly 200 vendors who sell everything from fresh produce and flowers to crafts, baked goods and more.
District 1 is one of five Cedar Rapids City Council seats up for election this fall. The window for candidates to file to run for office opens Aug. 25 and closes Sept. 18.
Musial visited Cedar Rapids in 1965 to see the Cedar Rapids farm club, the Cedar Rapids Cardinals, in action.
Iowa poll workers will be allowed to challenge a voter at the polls on the basis of their citizenship status under new legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The new laws also make changes to election recount procedures in the state, ban ranked choice voting and make it harder for third-party groups such as Libertarians to qualify as a major political party in the state.
Also in the Capitol Notebook, a new warden has been named for Iowa State Penitentiary.
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