Despite a court order blocking an attempted freeze on all federal grants, loans, and other forms of financial aid, researchers across Iowa’s public universities are being impacted by President Donald Trump’s executive orders — including those eliminating “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.”
Tax exemptions provide an incentive to qualifying landowners to preserve their woodlands, but bills introduced in the Iowa Legislature last year and again this year seek to change the state’s Forest and Fruit Tree Reserve program.
The proposal includes a new middle school on the city’s northeast side and renovations to consolidate buildings, which is expected to reduce operating costs by up to $10 million each year. A survey will go out to district residents this week.
Ten acres at the corner of First Avenue and Second Street in Coralville will include restaurant, retail, commercial and multifamily housing as part of the Gather Iowa redevelopment project from Rael Development Corporation. (Renderings created by Dwell Design Studio and provided by City of Coralville)
Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed Iowa Writers’ Workshop in which she teaches and the wealth of writers among whom she continues to create.
Sundown Mountain Resort in Dubuque is a snowy oasis in a state that’s been experiencing one of its least snowy winters in more than 130 years. But not all weather-dependent businesses can manufacture their own snow.
Catherine Johnson, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa, says requirements in the settlement agreement will lead to a state children’s mental health care system that ‘addresses the needs of children’
‘Nothing about this … constitutes a crime,’ Scott County attorney says of Davenport building collapse last year.
Panel discussion will be Feb. 25 in Cedar Rapids
A passerby on a walking trail near the main boat ramp at Lake Macbride State Park called 911Saturday morning after noticing a pair of gloves near broken ice on the frozen lake, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
Jeff Kaufmann has been Iowa Republicans’ state party leader since 2015. In that decade, Iowa Republicans have gone from sharing control of state and federal government in Iowa with Democrats to near unfettered control and historic majorities.
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