Leif Olson, a deputy Iowa Attorney General who came to Iowa from the Texas Attorney General’s Office and previously served in the U.S. Department of Labor, has been nominated to be the next U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Iowa.
A car collided Monday afternoon with a Linn-Mar Community School District bus, but the bus driver and passengers were uninjured, Marion police said.
In addition to $10 million Iowa paid two siblings of a teenage girl who died of starvation in the care of her adoptive parents in 2017, the state has agreed to pay a third sibling $4.2 million after being “severely physically abused, neglected, and tortured.”
Gov. Kim Reynolds, who appointed Cournoyer last year to the role, said in a statement she is “proud to endorse” Cournoyer’s campaign, calling her “a true fiscal conservative with a strong record of improving government efficiencies and accountability.”
One day after state senators advanced an education budget bill starving Iowa’s public universities of any general aid increase in the coming year, the Iowa House advanced its own package cutting general education support by the amount each university was spending on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But unlike the Senate version, the House would increase some support for other regent initiatives and for community colleges.
Nearly 90 Jewish faculty, staff, students, and alumni across Iowa’s higher education landscape have issued a collective statement condemning threats to and attacks on their college and university campuses “in the name of the Jewish community.”
The store would sell a variety of perishable and nonperishable food items in one of the areas most affected by the closure of the First Avenue Hy-Vee in Cedar Rapids.
Students from Iowa BIG — a project-based learning program based in Cedar Rapids — set out to educate children about local laws on driving ATVs and UTVs. They shared the importance of wearing helmets and other safety guidelines. Even the students who have grown up riding the vehicles, said they learned something about safety through the project.
Three different programs launched in 2023 to increase childcare access
The carnation was originally chosen as the flower of the day, but in 1919, the high cost of carnations led to a movement to use white and red ribbon rosettes to commemorate the day.
The site has been controversial due to a proposed apartment complex.
Democratic Iowa Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister from West Des Moines, is looking to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District in 2026. Political forecasters have the district as one of the most competitive in the country.
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