By Adam B Sullivan Plans to build a Johnson County Justice Center — a project that has been on the county wish list for well over a decade — appear to be at an impasse. The Johnson County Board of Supervisors discussed plans for the estimated $48.1 million building at a meeting Wednesday night, but [...]
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UPDATED: IC Police search City Park, did not find reported subject
UPDATED: 12:03 p.m. Iowa City police say the call of a missing subject was reported by Washington Police this morning. Iowa City police Sgt. Denise Brotherton said the Joint Emergency Communications Center initially got the call around 8 a.m. to look out for a missing man. She said the center received an updated report around [...]
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Which state best fits Stephen Bloom’s description of Iowa? Hawaii
University of Iowa Professor Stephen Bloom set off a firestorm of controversy late last year with a piece published in the Atlantic criticizing rural Iowans as “the elderly waiting to die, those too timid (or lacking in educated) to peer around the bend for better opportunities, an assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale [...]
City denies Occupy permit renewal
Iowa City officials denied a permit renewal for Occupy Iowa City Monday afternoon. According to city documents, officials denied the permit to inhabit College Green Park because the occupation interferes with public use of the park and poses potentially health hazards. City officials said the group’s presence has damaged aspects of the park including the grass, which will [...]
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Police charge 5 after shots fired at Iowa City night club
Iowa City police charged five men early Saturday morning after shots were fired at Caliente Night Club and Bar, 171 Hwy 1 West. According to a release, officers were investigating noise complaints near the bar when three shots were fired. Witnesses said they saw a man leaning out the window of an SUV fire a handgun [...]
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Daily Iowan garners record traffic with Dance Marathon coverage
The Daily Iowan’s coverage of Dance Marathon’s 2012 Big Event at the University of Iowa garnered more than 17,000 hits in 24 hours on the campus media organization’s website, newsroom leaders announced today. The Dance Marathon organization at Iowa has raised more than $11 million for pediatric cancer patients and their families in the last [...]
Iowa City Darwin Day schedule
“The Hormone in the Middle: Integrated organismal responses to changing environments as learned from an adaptable songbird,” Ellen Ketterson When: 3 p.m. Friday Where: 101 Biology Building East “Evolutionary genomics of host-pathogen interactions: a tale of birds and bacteria,” Scott Edwards When: 3:45 p.m. Friday Where: 101 Biology Building East “Feathered dinosaurs or flightless birds: [...]
Obama donors linked to embattled University of Iowa alum
Family members of a former University of Iowa student who is apparently involved with violence and crime in Mexico have donated thousands to President Obama’s re-election campaign, according to a New York Times investigation released this week. Pepe Rojas-Cardona was the UI Student Government president in the early 1990s. After a string of theft and [...]
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