Farmers market season continues as markets in Coralville and Cedar Rapids open this week. On Wednesday, the Coralville Farmers Market opens for its 2024 season, and then on Thursday and Saturday, two annual farmers markets in Cedar Rapids return. The two-hour Coralville Farmers Market will be held each Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., starting on May […]
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‘Baloney,’ ‘a political lynching’ and ‘an egregious act’: Ernst, Grassley and Reynolds join Bird in denouncing Trump’s trial
As Donald Trump sat through his fourth week in a Manhattan courtroom, listening to prosecutors present evidence he committed 34 acts of business fraud to help his 2016 presidential campaign, Iowa’s leading Republicans spoke out, echoing his message that people shouldn’t trust the legal system because all the criminal cases against him are without substance […]
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Animal Rescue League of Iowa is looking for adopters, foster families and donations as it deals with a surge in puppies
The Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARL) is asking for help as it deals with a sudden boom in the number of puppies it is caring for. The 98-year-old nonprofit said in a news release on Thursday that it currently has “130+ more puppies than we did at this time last year.” “The surge is […]
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Brenna Bird makes debut as Trump surrogate, flying to New York for a photo op outside criminal fraud trial
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird traveled to New York to support Donald Trump during his ongoing criminal trial on allegations of committing business fraud in order to win the 2016 presidential election. That support included serving as a surrogate for the former president by denouncing a witness Trump cannot make public comments about because of […]
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After a career coaching women’s basketball in the state of Iowa, Lisa Bluder is retiring, handing the Hawks over to Jan Jensen
It’s been more than a month since the final buzzer sounded in the NCAA championship game, but Monday proved a pivotal day for the future of women’s basketball at the University of Iowa. First, Lisa Bluder announced her retirement after 24 years as head coach of the Hawkeyes. Then, UI Athletics announced associate coach Jan […]
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Two lawsuits filed over Iowa’s attempt to usurp federal immigration law and set up its own deportation system
Two lawsuits challenging the attempt by Republicans in the Iowa Legislature to let the Reynolds administration appropriate power belonging to the federal government in order to arrest and deport immigrants in Iowa based on their past, not current, immigration status were filed in federal court on Thursday. SF 2340, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law last […]
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‘Plant. Grow. Fly.’ program marks 10 years of crafting pollinator-friendly garden recipes for Iowans
Ten years ago, the monarch butterfly was in serious trouble. Its numbers had cratered to the lowest level researchers had seen since the current monarch population monitoring programs began in the mid-1990s. Although the monarch has rebounded from that low point enough for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to upgrade its status […]
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The fourth employee-turned-owner of Daydreams Comics plans to keep the shop people-centric
Daydreams Comics was crowded on Saturday afternoon, which wasn’t a surprise. It was Free Comic Book Day (FCBD), a nationwide annual event that happens on the first Saturday of May, and this year it fell on May 4, a day celebrated by Star Wars fans every year. “I should have ordered more,” Daydreams owner Nathan Parriott […]
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Court battle over public art piece in Des Moines park reaches ‘unsatisfying status quo’
“Greenwood Pond: Double Site,” the large-scale work of public art that has been part of Greenwood Park in Des Moines since 1996, will remain in place following the decision of the federal judge on Friday to issue a preliminary injunction stopping the Des Moines Art Center from dismantling and removing its wooden structures. The large-scale installation […]
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City High students organize in solidarity with college students for Palestine: ‘It’s really hard to just sit back and watch’
Hours before a three-day-long protest organized by Iowa City Students for Justice in Palestine began on the Pentacrest Friday, a similar demonstration was already underway two miles to the east. Even before classes began at City High on Friday morning, City Students for Palestine (not affiliated with the group above) were building a temporary encampment […]
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The contender and the longshot: Two Democrats are determined to flip the House seats in Iowa’s 1st and 4th Districts
Democrats Christina Bohannan and Ryan Melton are campaigning for Congress on opposite sides of the state and in very different districts, but they have one thing in common — firsthand experience running for the U.S. House. In 2022, Bohannan challenged the Republican incumbent in Iowa’s eastern-most congressional district, the 1st, while Melton ran in the […]
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DOJ will sue Reynolds administration if the state attempts to enforce its new immigration law
The U.S. Department of Justice has warned Gov. Reynolds that it will sue the state of Iowa if the Reynolds administration attempts to enforce SF 2340, the Des Moines Register reported on Friday. That bill, which Reynolds signed into law last month, would usurp the federal government’s enforcement of immigration laws by transferring some federal […]
