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A total of 91,501 Iowans, including 9,411 residents of Johnson County and 6,797 residents of Linn County, had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. The department has said it will now publish updates on the number of people vaccinated, at both […]
Dustin Liston was sworn in as Iowa City’s chief of police on Monday morning at City Hall. The choice of Liston to lead the Iowa City Police Department by City Manager Geoff Fruin was unanimously approved by the Iowa City Council in October. Liston joins the ICPD as the city council considers changes to the […]
I’ve never understood why people make such a big deal out of the new year. Jan. 1 is a featureless, arbitrary day like any other that exists in the yawning chasm between Christmas and the first day it’s safe to go outside without your parka, and it’s always struck me as a bit naïve to […]
The Aug. 10 derecho showed why environmental justice and listening to the voices of those most vulnerable to climate change are important, said Linn County Sustainability Program Manager Tamara Marcus. Last month, the Linn County Board of Supervisors adopted a climate resolution that calls for the prioritization of the voices of vulnerable communities in Linn […]
Late on Thursday afternoon, the Iowa Department of Education (DOE) rejected the Iowa City Community School District’s request for a waiver to switch to all online classes for two weeks. The district applied for the waiver on Tuesday as Johnson County’s COVID-19 test positivity rate continued to increase over the last two weeks, with fears […]
After spending 76 days in the Johnson County Jail, an Iowa City man who attempted to take the law into his own hands this summer by driving into protesters has avoided prison time and, pending any further infractions, will have a clean record by 2024. The incident Just before 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 21, as […]
All four members of Iowa’s House of Representatives delegation and both of its senators issued statements condemning the actions of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. But only one of them actually addressed Donald Trump’s responsibility for inciting an insurrection aimed at stopping the certification of the Electoral College votes and preventing […]
For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Josh Carroll draws comics, writes fiction and plays drums. A longtime resident of Iowa City, he now resides in southeast Cedar Rapids. This article was originally published in Little Village issue 290. […]
For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Deborah Elizabeth Whaley is an artist, curator, writer, poet and Professor of American and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her recent book, ‘Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime’ […]
For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Caroline Mascardo is a junior at Iowa City West High School. When they aren’t making political cartoons for the school newspaper, you can probably find them practicing violin, reading something by Kurt Vonnegut or consuming […]
For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Lauren Haldeman is the author of ‘Instead of Dying’ (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry), ‘Calenday’ and ‘The Eccentricity is Zero.’ A graphic novelist and poet, she has received an Iowa Arts Fellowship, […]
What are the chances the state of Iowa will be first in the nation ever again after 2020’s incredibly inconvenient, undemocratic, overcrowded and likely virus-filled caucuses that still haven’t even been called by the AP? Signed, Humiliated and Proud via the Your Village feature on LV’s homepage. The chances of Iowa being first in the […]
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