“Call our legislators and tell them what a bad idea this is (from your own phone or using your own email),” UI Interim Vice President for Research Lois Geist wrote. “Being located where we are, we have limited ability to publicly fight this as faculty or as an institution.”
Also in the Campaign Almanac, Sarah Trone Garriott is endorsed by an organization promoting ‘next generation’ political leaders
A Belle Plaine man died Thursday morning in a head-on collision in rural Poweshiek County, according to an Iowa State Patrol accident report.
Two unvaccinated children and an unvaccinated adult from Johnson County were added Thursday to the list of Iowans infected by measles, bringing the total identified cases in the state to six, according to state and county health officials.
The National Weather Service on Wednesday issued an extreme heat watch, in effect from Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening for much of Iowa, as well as portions of surrounding states. It warns of “dangerously hot conditions.”
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
A district judge has affirmed the validity of a state-issued gaming license for the Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center.
The trial of a former Marion man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child between 2018 and 2021 has been bumped for the 11th time. This case is one of numerous Linn County sexual abuse cases that have been lingering in the system for more than a year.
Four people will be honored in Cedar Rapids next month as “heroes” for their bravery, selflessness and dedication to serving their communities.
The Iowa City Council is continuing to move forward with plans to put a 1 percent local-option sales tax on the general election ballot this fall. Under state law, 50 percent of the revenue must be put toward property tax relief. How the rest of the money is used is up to the city.
Johnson County Residents United, a group that advocates for safe conditions in mobile home parks in the county, in partnership with local elected officials, is advocating for a two-year moratorium on rent increases to allow time for improved park conditions at properties owned by Havenpark Communities.
Iowa will receive $37.8 million in opioid settlement funds after the state signed onto a settlement agreement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler Family, on Monday, resolving thousands of opioid lawsuits nationwide.
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