Independently-run public schools give families choice, charter school advocates say. Cedar Rapids’ three new charter schools could enroll more than 1,500 students when they’re up and running.
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Independently-run public schools give families choice, charter school advocates say. Cedar Rapids’ three new charter schools could enroll more than 1,500 students when they’re up and running.
New book imagines where critters might go for vacation
Also, lawmakers advance a bill allowing families to monitor nursing home residents.
Civil rights and some business groups oppose proposal, citing ‘legal chaos’ and economic consequences.
Over the protests of immigrants and activists who filled Iowa State Capitol committee rooms this week, Republican lawmakers advanced bills that would put stricter limitations on undocumented immigrants.
The search for a new Cedar Rapids police chief is almost over, nearly 10 months after the previous chief, Wayne Jerman, aged out of the position and retired. A public meet and greet with the finalists is planned for next week.
Sen. Brad Zaun has pushed to ban the traffic cameras ever since he received a citation in 2011 after a camera captured his son speeding while driving the senator’s vehicle in Cedar Rapids.
Iowa Senate Democrats, meanwhile, unveiled a package of ‘reproductive freedom’ bills, while Republicans advanced bills regarding teaching human development and child support requirements.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration helped residents map temperatures in the Corridor during one of the hottest days of the summer last year. The results are out.
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal received bipartisan support in its first legislative step; a Republican senator dismissed concerns over lack of transparency called for in the bill.
Board member Catherine McCrory prefaced her vote with a statement: “I want it to be clear that this Republican believes that there was an insurrection on Jan. 6. There’s no doubt in my mind that he manipulated, instigated, aided and abetted an insurrection on Jan. 6.”
Musk said that the first Neuralink product is called “Telepathy” — which, he said, will enable users to control their phones or computers “just by thinking.” He added that intial users would be those who have lost use of their limbs.
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