Honks and cheers rang out Wednesday afternoon outside the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, where dozens of community members gathered in protest of the Trump administration’s treatment of VA employees.
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, touted her sponsorship of the Save Our Bacon Act and her support of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” during several stops in northern Iowa on Tuesday.
Also in today’s Capitol Notebook, the Iowa Department of Education announced $8 million in a new round of grant funding to recognize and reward teacher excellence.
The City of Coralville will use multiple funding streams to pay for construction of a new recreation center. That includes a loan, repaid with property taxes, as well as local-option sales tax revenue, if voters OK the tax in November.
On the eve of a Board of Regents vote to change its academic freedom and class content policies to satisfy legislative concerns about “indoctrination,” the national Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — or FIRE — reached out with a plea.
Two teenagers are facing multiple charges in relation to a shots fired incident earlier this month that sent one to the hospital, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
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The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a person of interest in a disturbance that left one person with serious but not life-threatening injuries early Wednesday morning in Center Point.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department and Linn county Regional Hazmat Team responded to a petroleum spill in an inlet of the Cedar Lake Tuesday afternoon, according to a Facebook post from the fire department.
A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called “absolutely incomprehensible.”
Iowa Democrats celebrated Catelin Drey’s victory, saying the Tuesday results — alongside results from other special elections this year — mark a turning point for the state party following several election cycles of overwhelming GOP victories.
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