Iowa’s 2024 legislative session has featured bills that would affect Iowa’s land, water and air. Here are seven introduced by Republicans this month.
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Iowa’s 2024 legislative session has featured bills that would affect Iowa’s land, water and air. Here are seven introduced by Republicans this month.
Also, Marion named Community of the Year.
Last month, the Federal Highway Administration released new guidance about traffic-safety signs, urging officials to avoid using humor and pop-culture references on billboards that might confuse drivers.
There are five SSMIDs in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, but what exactly are they? How do they get their money? And who decides how it’s spent? This week, Curious Iowa digs in to find out more about these districts that fuel streetscaping, events, holiday lights, public art and more.
About 150 people crowded into the North Liberty Public Library Sunday afternoon to attend a town hall about proposed changes to Iowa’s area education agencies. The event, hosted by Democratic State Sens. Janice Weiner, D-Iowa City, and Zach Wahls, D-Coralville.
The 2024 route, announced late Saturday, will take riders July 20-27 from Glenwood in Western Iowa along a southern route ending in Burlington.
A University of Iowa sports psychologist has been meeting with coaches and student athletes since March.
A look back at the top news stories from the week of Jan. 22
With thousands of schools built in the 1930s through 1970s still in use — Keri Hornbuckle and her team would like to help school districts pinpoint PCB hot spots and find ways to affordably reduce the risks to students and staff.
“It’s vital that we ensure that every dime of these settlement funds goes to help curb this deadly epidemic,” the Marion representative says.
Over 19 months and two deadly Iowa school shootings later, the money only recently started to trickle out. But contractors have been paid millions.
As part of the ownership transfer, about 1,000 former Mercy Iowa City “team members” — including 45 physicians and 33 advanced practice providers — will become UIHC employees.
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