This comic was originally published in Little Village’s September 2026 issue.
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Hate behind opposition to school desegregation remains today, say civil rights icons who faced it
Carmen Jungbluth drove from Boone to eastern Iowa on Thursday to hear two pioneers of school desegregation from the American South speak to a crowd of 120 rapt audience members in the lead-off event to a three-day tour of Iowa dedicated to barrier-breaking events that civil rights icons Dr. Leona Tate and Carlotta Walls LaNier […]
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Letter to the editor: Rapists are close to drowning us all
By Tim Weitzel, Iowa City Rape. It’s an evocative word. It’s routinely suppressed from daily discussion, but why? Who does society protect by not talking about men who violently attack victims with their penises, the victims conscious or not? Why is a charge of rape so routinely difficult be make, to prosecute? Why does our […]
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Hundreds rally to free Iowa City mother seized by ICE and facing third-country deportation; Miller-Meeks asks for stay from DHS
Early last Thursday morning, ICE agents seized a longtime Iowa City resident as she was preparing to drive to work with her sister. Fatou Traore came to the United States in 2005 from the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), a West African nation. In 2011, an immigration court judge granted her an order of withholding of […]
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Book Review: ‘She Was Wild Grass’ by Katie Bennett
Part personal essay, part biography, I found myself luxuriating in the prose of Katie Bennett’s She Was Wild Grass (Brink Literary), slowing down my own reading to sit in the sentences when the narrative moved faster than my ability to appreciate the language. This first full-length publication from Iowa City’s Brink Books meets the bar […]
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Letter to the editor: The jail referendum matters, but what happens after is equally important
By David Leshtz, Iowa City The heated public debate over a new jail in Johnson County has overlooked one player all Iowans should be worried about: the for-profit corporate prison industry. With privatized prisons already located in more than half of the United States, including Illinois and Indiana, the prison industrial complex is eager to […]
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Letter to the editor: Bring Fatou Traore home
By Sara Gilmore, Iowa City As an employee of UIHC (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), and on behalf of a great number of community members, we would like to voice our support for our co-worker Fatou Traore, who was unlawfully taken by ICE last Thursday morning on her way to work and is set […]
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Iowa Stage Theatre Company brings ‘Reefer Madness’ to — where else — the Stoner Theater
In two years, the top-notch talent at Iowa Stage Theatre Company have managed to craft a distinct programming style. From classics (such as the Shakespeare on the Lawn franchise and The Glass Menagerie) to the cutting-edge (2024’s Witch), to their current take on a campy classic, ISTC has gained a reputation for dark, daring, actor-centric […]
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Letter to the editor: Vote No for common sense on the jail referendum
By Tim Weitzel, Iowa City I will be voting no on the upcoming bond referendum to fund a new jail and sheriff’s office, not because I dislike law enforcement or because I think we shouldn’t have a jail but because there has been no dialogue about why this facility has to be built and why […]
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Poll: Most Iowans view corporate ag unfavorably; water quality is a make-or-break issue for 1 in 4 voters
A new poll from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future (CLF) asks about the importance of water quality to Iowa voters this year. The “Iowa Water Quality Survey” looks at more than how the issue may influence voting behavior this November, finding, among other things, that 26 percent of its respondents say there’s […]
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Bruce Hornsby reflects on the way it was, “The Way It Is,” touring with the Dead, and entering the best stage of his career
I first heard Bruce Hornsby when I was 10 years old, back when I would spend hours on end hanging around my father’s doomed retail store because he couldn’t afford a babysitter. His small leather goods business boomed in the early half of the 1970s, but by the turn of the new decade, the belts and purses he […]
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Letter to the editor: Ashley Hinson’s attempt to sound like a peacemaker is a farce
By Ed Flaherty, Iowa City Representative Ashley Hinson, candidate for U.S. Senate, on Sept. 16 stated that “I want this war to end — I believe President Trump should immediately bring this war to a successful end….” This is just after she voted “no” on Sept. 15 on a resolution to stop the war. That was the sixth time […]
