Comments from Little Village publishers and editors, former and current, were compiled by editor-in-chief Emma McClatchey and edited for length and clarity. 2001 Icon publishes its last issue on Jan. 25. Five months later, former staffer Todd Kimm begins publishing Little Village along with Icon alumni Beth Oxler, Andria Green and Steve Horowitz. Todd Kimm: […]
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Planned Parenthood to close Iowa City Health Center — one of its last two clinics in the state
Planned Parenthood is closing its Iowa City Health Center at the end of July. After the center shutters on Friday, July 31, the Susan Knapp Health Center in Des Moines will be the only Planned Parenthood facility in the state offering in-person medical services. The Des Moines center will also continue to provide telehealth services […]
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Class-action lawsuit alleges Hy-Vee has failed to pay overtime wages
A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against Hy-Vee Inc., alleging the grocery store chain violates federal labor laws by failing to pay overtime for department managers. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on behalf of former employee Dawn Nicosia and other Hy-Vee workers. It seeks to […]
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U.S. Supreme Court sides with Bayer, prohibits lawsuits over company’s lack of warnings about Roundup cancer risk
Bayer, the multinational biotech conglomerate that owns Monsanto, which manufactures Roundup, scored a major victory on Thursday over people suing the company for not including a warning about cancer risks on the weedkiller’s label. In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a state court decision from Missouri, and effectively blocked thousands of other […]
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RFK Jr. recorded trying to entice Iowa Libertarian to quit House race: ‘I can’t go into specifics because there’s legal prohibitions’
Rick Stewart wasn’t expecting to hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s distinctive voice when he answered his phone on June 11. It was an unsolicited call, in which the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary pushed Stewart, the Libertarian Party candidate for Congress in Iowa’s 2nd District, to drop out of the race. Kennedy suggested […]
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Federal judge strikes down Gov. Reynolds’ restrictions on SNAP benefits
On Monday, a federal judge struck down new restrictions on food that can be purchased with SNAP benefits in Iowa and four other states. In her 68-page ruling, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which funds SNAP, lacked the […]
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After 23 months in ICE custody, Sudanese man seeks release from Muscatine County Jail
A judge has ordered the federal government to state why it has jailed, for almost two years, an immigration detainee now being held in the Muscatine County Jail. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa by Mutasim Ibrahim Abdoulrahman Nour, a citizen of Sudan, against U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
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The 2026 Quad Cities Juneteenth Festival celebrated a long-running local tradition in a new location
The sun was shining on Saturday as people gathered on 2nd Street in downtown Davenport for the Quad Cities’ annual Juneteenth Festival. The location was different this year — it’s traditionally been held in LeClaire Park, closer to the river — but the celebration was the same as always, with music, dance, speeches, food and […]
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An Ioway map drawn in 1837 offers a treasure trove of historical insight
The Báxoje (Ioway) leaders Na’je Nine (No Heart of Fear) and Ñiyu Mañi (Moving Rain) arrived in Washington D.C. at the end of September 1837 with two sheets of paper, stitched together by hand — careful work with needle and thread meant to create a canvas large enough to hold a world. The leaders, accompanied […]
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Auditor: School choice cost Iowans $258 million, is ‘paying tuition for the wealthiest families’
Nearly 79 percent of students who used Iowa’s funding program for K-12 private schools were “already projected” to attend private schools, according to a report released Wednesday by Iowa Auditor Rob Sand. The Iowa Department of Education called the report a “policy advocacy brief” that critiqued statutory provisions of the Iowa Education Savings Account (ESA) […]
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Hair Art, the tornado-proof salon that never raised its prices, is closing after more than 28 years in Iowa City
Man Kwi Park plans to treat June 30 like any normal Tuesday. She will open Hair Art, her one-chair salon at the corner of Linn and Court Street, at 9 a.m., and spend the next 12 hours cutting the hair of whomever walks in. (And it will be walk-ins; Park does not take reservations.) At […]
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Club Basix has brought gaiety to Cedar Rapids since 1997, from dime draws and darts league to drag shows and derecho aid
Since late 1997, you can drive down 1st Ave and and pick out Cedar Rapids’ only gay bar with ease. Club Basix has been out and proud from the start. The first day it was open, original owner David Thompson mounted Pride flags around the entire roof. “I boarded up that middle window in the […]
