Back in mid-March — more than a month before the Iowa Legislature passed a bill imposing on Iowa’s public universities sweeping diversity, equity, and inclusion restrictions that go beyond directives from their governing Board of Regents — Republican lawmakers sought a DEI update from the campuses.
Hundreds of people toured Garfield and Arthur elementary schools in northeast Cedar Rapids Saturday morning. The schools are being retired by the Cedar Rapids Community School District at the end of this academic year, and replaced by Trailside Elementary School.
Cities can ask a court to issue an order restricting the hours of an “adult entertainment establishment” and prohibiting the consumption of alcohol there if it presents a public safety nuisance.
The 89-year-old puzzle creator who first published Wuzzles in The Gazette in 1982, will sell the puzzle to King Features syndicate.
Far from this week’s dramatic scenes of baton-wielding police clad in riot gear and bulletproof vests clashing with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses coast to coast — a diverse combination of Iowa City students and residents on Friday mingled peacefully on the University of Iowa Pentacrest lawn.
Also, an Iowa Air Guard unit in Fort Dodge will close, and Gov. Reynolds joined 50-plus other governors opposing a federal proposal to shift Guard members to the U.S. Space Force
Of those, 24 struck Western and Central Iowa on just one day.
Davenport is among sites a tech company is considering for an $800 million Midwest data center campus. City officials emphasized Wednesday the project is far from a done deal.
A top U.S. Department of Justice official says the department will sue to block a new Iowa immigration law criminalizing “illegal reentry.”
Iowa’s four-year high school graduation rate has been reported higher than the actual rate for the last decade because of an error in the calculation code used by the Iowa Department of Education.
The FDA strongly warned against drinking raw milk. Some states, including Iowa, have sought in recent years to expand the unpasteurized milk’s availability for purchase.
Chain Reaction Bike Hub, a new nonprofit, aims to break barriers people face to accessing reliable bikes and transportation in Linn County. Its new shop is open at 1010 Third Ave. in southwest Cedar Rapids.
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