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Iowa City Council now accepting applications to fill its upcoming vacancy

Iowa City is now accepting applications for the upcoming vacancy on the city council that will happen when at-large member Janice Weiner steps down at the beginning of next year. Weiner submitted her resignation after winning election to the Iowa […]

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Coralville City Council appoints Keith Jones to fill its vacant seat

Keith Jones was sworn in as the newest member of the Coralville City Council on Tuesday night during the council’s regular meeting. Jones fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Jill Dodds on April 26. The retired banker was […]

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Jill Dodds resigns from Coralville City Council following husband’s arrest for ‘a horrible crime he didn’t commit’

Coralville City Councilmember Jill Dodds resigned during Tuesday night’s council meeting, following what she called “false allegations” against her husband for “a horrible crime he didn’t commit.” Jeffrey Dodds was arrested on April 18 by Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies on […]

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ACLU of Iowa warns Coralville its panhandling ordinance is unconstitutional, calls for its repeal

The ACLU of Iowa sent a letter to Coralville and three other cities on Tuesday, warning that their ordinances against panhandling are unconstitutional. As part of an ongoing review of such ordinances in Iowa, the state chapter of the ACLU […]

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‘We need to leverage every resource possible’: Coralville City Councilmember Hai Huynh kicks off her reelection campaign

“I feel like we just did this yesterday,” Hai Huynh said at the kickoff event for her reelection campaign in Coralville’s Central Park on Monday evening. Huynh was elected to the Coralville City Council in the September 2020 special election […]

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‘I’m ready to get to work’: Hai Huynh elected to the Coralville City Council

In a special election with a higher voter turnout than last year’s regular city election, Coralville voters elected Hai Huynh to the city council last night. Huynh scored an impressive victory in the four-candidate race, receiving 52.5 percent of the […]

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Coralville City Councilmember who called Black Lives Matter ‘criminals’ resigns

Longtime Coralville City Councilmember Tom Gill resigned on Friday, three days after making inflammatory statements about Black Lives Matter during a council meeting. “BLM, to a lot of people, is a great organization,” the five-term councilor said near the end of last Tuesday’s Zoom meeting, which was streamed publicly. […]

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