The council took no formal action during the meeting but asked city staff questions and heard from the public. Mayor Chris Hoffman said the city will continue to communicate with residents as discussions progress.
A $1.2 billion deal the University of Iowa cemented in March 2020 for the private operation of its utilities system over the next 50 years amounts to the “largest financial obligation ever held by Iowa taxpayers,” State Auditor Rob Sand found in his four-year review of the blockbuster agreement.
The collisions happened along a four-lane thoroughfare in Des Moines, where police said a car and an SUV were racing.
One person was killed Wednesday morning in a crash outside Cedar Rapids, at the intersection of Highway 13 and Mount Vernon Road SE, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
The study took place between September of 2019 and July of 2021 at trauma centers in Iowa City, Iowa; Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Baltimore; Worcester, Massachusetts; and Sacramento, California. Medical examiners at four of the sites also took part.
This is the first time prior registration will not be required to receive a meal, the organization announced. Meals will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
The county supervisors included $1 million for Kirkwood tuition assistance in the latest round of ARPA allocations this fall
Summit, as well as representatives for CO2 pipeline companies Wolf Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 ventures, argued the materials, which the Iowa Utilities Board requested in July, were preempted by federal law.
Her move follows similar bans in other states and coincides with much broader legislation introduced Tuesday in Congress that would ban all transactions from any social media company in or under the influence of China and Russia and others.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican, defended her vote for the Respect for Marriage Act as a growing list of local Republican Party groups have condemned her decision.
The State of Iowa on Monday agreed to pay $2 million to settle a “wrongful death” claim with the family of an Iowa State University student who died last year in a Crew Club accident after the group “failed to follow critical health and safety procedures.”
Willard “Sandy” Boyd – who served as the University of Iowa’s 15th president from 1969 to 1981, gaining repute for his wisdom that subsequent presidents have often quoted – died Tuesday in Iowa City at the age of 95.
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