In the Cedar Rapids Community School District there are three contested races for school board seats. Five candidates, Donald Taylor, …
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In the Cedar Rapids Community School District there are three contested races for school board seats. Five candidates, Donald Taylor, …
In Cedar Rapids, there are two contested races for City Council. Three candidates, including incumbents Patrick Loeffler and Ann Poe …
Iowa received its troubling diagnosis in February. Iowa Cancer Registry data revealed that Iowa has the second-highest cancer incidence rate …
A homeless encampment in Iowa City caught fire last week. Thankfully, no one was injured but some homeless people lost …
Dozens of Iowa political campaigns have been fined since 2018 for running afoul of state campaign disclosure laws. But those …
In reality, the surplus was created through choices made by Republican Statehouse leaders.
Opponents of Summit Carbon Solutions planned 700-mile carbon capture pipeline process believe they may have found a new way local …
This problem seems to be the sort of thing the House and Senate Government Oversight Committees would want to investigate.
The Iowa Public Information Board should be looking for ways to expand Iowans’ access to public records
ReLeaf still faces a long road, and more funding is needed.
This process is a mockery of representative democracy.
Some will argue that air conditioning is a comfort, not a need. But that’s got to change.
How disenfranchising Iowans who have the right to vote but limited English language skills advances the cause of election integrity is a mystery.
A new state law loosening child labor restrictions runs counter to federal law
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