Author Archives: Zach Tilly and Skaaren Cosse

Your Town Now: Justice Center returns for a May 7 vote

April 22, 2013

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Guess what: the Johnson County Justice Center proposal is back from the dead. In November of last year, opponents of the proposal to build a new, bigger jail in the heart of Iowa City (at a cost to t...

Your Town Now: Neighborhood Nirvana

March 26, 2013

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In an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 26, representatives of the City of Iowa City and the University of Iowa student government (UISG) sat down to discuss student concerns, namely with city safety pro...

Your Town Now: The city council’s Chauncey decision is remarkably opaque...

March 4, 2013

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The Iowa City Council’s 5-1 decision last month to move ahead with Marc Moen’s Chauncey building project settled the question of what is to become of the corner of Gilbert and College, bu...

Your Town Now: A treaty to end competition between Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty...

January 30, 2013

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The collective brass of the Iowa City-Coralville-North Liberty Commerce Triangle are hard at work on a landmark economic policy charter to be known as the Community Business Attraction and Anti-Pirac...

Your Town Now: Urban Chicken Keeping

December 3, 2012

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At long last, it appears that urban chickens may be on their way to Iowa City. On Nov. 27, an amendment to the Iowa City zoning code that would allow chicken-keeping at single-family homes passed sec...

Your Town Now: A New Levee or Amtrak for Iowa City?

November 25, 2012

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Iowa City’s floodwall plans raise a question about priorities   Hurricane Sandy’s ravaging of New York City and other parts of the eastern seaboard serves as a grim reminder of just how vulnerable ou...

Your Town Now: Justice: Supply & Demand

October 31, 2012

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If you can cut through all the glittering doublespeak and rhetoric, you’ll find a deeply ambiguous set of truths about the proposed Johnson County “Justice Center” (read: jail) that will be put to a ...

Your Town Now: Following the Money

September 25, 2012

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Your Town Now—now featuring twice as many writers as a 1,000-word column should need—is Little Village’s monthly look at local news items of interest. In this edition, we look at two proposed initiat...