President Barak Obama visited the University of Iowa on Wednesday to discuss the issue of college affordability.
Members of the 84th General Assembly open their 2012 session next week with half of next year’s state budget already set. But that doesn’t mean it will be any easier to finish a fiscal 2013 spending plan this year.
On the eve of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, with voters poised to converge in school gyms, church halls and community centers across the county and the state today, local political leaders spent Monday making final preparations after months of build-up.
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the current frontrunners in Iowa for the GOP nomination, both hold slight leads over President Barack Obama if the 2012 presidential election were held today, according to a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released today.
Since Nov. 1, would-be novelists throughout the nation have been updating their Facebook status nightly and letting the whole world know on which days they’ve surpassed their word-count goal and on which days they’ve fallen behind. Now there are just two weeks left to reach the 50,000-word goal set by the organizers of November’s National Novel Writing Month and the Office of Letters and Light.
Voter turnout in Iowa City approached historically low levels during the 2011 city election Tuesday.
Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett said only 7,569 voters turned out at the polls, which placed it among the lowest turnouts in the last 30 years.
Occupy Iowa City protestors likely will be allowed to set up in a city park larger tents than they are currently permitted, but not other structures.
North Liberty residents will decide in the Nov. 8 election whether to switch to a five-ward system of representation for the city council from the at-large system the city has now.
Local teachers had a bone to pick with the state’s proposed education reform this weekend. The response was far from unshakable, as the questions and comments from teachers were at times tense and contentious.
The city councils in North Liberty and Coralville approved an annexation agreement Tuesday night, although it was a close vote in North Liberty.
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