By Aradia Wyndham, Iowa City Getting my apartment at Augusta Place was like winning the lottery, literally. I won my apartment in a lottery of low-income units in this building due to medical disability. While I considered this an amazing opportunity for me to live in a more accessible new home, the most visible of […]
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Letter to the editor: The search for a new UI president has begun again. Let it be better this time.
By Lois Cox, Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, writing on behalf of the Executive Committee, University of Iowa chapter, AAUP Once again the University of Iowa begins its search for a new leader. But this search will be like no other, not only because it is happening in the midst of a pandemic, but because […]
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Open letter to Susan Mims: The accusations against ICPD are not ‘baseless’
By Nicholas Theisen, Iowa City Dear Councilor Mims, Since it has become your habit of late to respond to public comment at city council meetings, despite stating each time that it is not the historical habit of councilors to do so, I write this letter to you, and by extension to your colleagues, to address […]
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Letter to the editor: Cedar Rapids’ identity
Chad Cooper, Cedar Rapids A howling came through my city, and it was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. In Cedar Rapids, everyone is now intimately familiar with a derecho. The storm visited town over lunch on a Monday, bringing hurricane-force winds (100+ mph) and leaving devastation as a parting gift. A couple hundred thousand without […]
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Green skies, red lightning, hurricane winds: Getting caught in the storm in Cedar Rapids
I am Midwestern, and that means when I hear tornado sirens my instinct is to walk out to my back porch and stare at the sky. Every single one of my neighbors does it, too. I look forward to storm season. I watch Twister at least once a year. I love that feeling when the […]
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Op-ed: Yes, there is a housing crisis in Iowa City, and it includes downtown
By Nicholas Theisen, Iowa City On June 16 of this year, the Iowa City Council passed a 17-point resolution “addressing the Black Lives Matter Movement and Systemic Racism,” to much fanfare. Buried within the rather chaotic discussion that produced this document was a back and forth concerning the Iowa Freedom Riders’ demands with regard to […]
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Letter to the editor: The greatest public safety threat to Black Americans is racism
By Laura Wang When New York City became the world epicenter of COVID-19 in mid-March, the country turned its gaze inward. The only news was coronavirus news, and Americans were a captive audience as we stayed home and watched the case numbers and death toll tick higher and the stock market plummet. Everything was unprecedented, […]
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Letter to the editor: From peace caravan to mass protest during the pandemic
By Ben Otoadese, City High senior, Iowa City Submitted June 1 Just one week ago, on Memorial Day, I grudgingly grabbed my face mask and joined my mom on the Iowa City Peace Caravan — our local version of a national movement. We were to mark International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament with a […]
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Letter to the editor: Why are you not antifa?
The recent resignation of adjunct professor Jeff Klinzman from Kirkwood Community College has focused attention on the activist group antifa. On Aug. 22, KCRG’s Jeff Scheinblum aired an investigative report, digging up comments by Klinzman on Facebook that some people might find offensive, but the headline was Klinzman’s claim that he was antifa.
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Op-ed: Mollie Tibbetts and ‘American Gothic’
I drove by that cornfield past Guernsey the last week of July, along with thousands of others. It was during RAGBRAI, the annual bicycle ride across the state of Iowa that has become as much a part of the identity of the state as “American Gothic.”
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Letter to the editor: Mollie Tibbetts’ murder and the repercussions of violent masculinity
What happened to Mollie is a tragedy. It sheds light on why women today constantly fear for their safety, why so many of my friends carry keys in between their knuckles to feel safe walking home. Take this as an opportunity to realize how gender has disproportionately plagued women worldwide. More than 1 in 10 women have experienced forced intercourse or other forced sexual acts at some point in their life. In none of these situations are women wondering “is he a legal citizen?”
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Sexuality, gossip, confusion and Catholic school
I don’t need another drink but say I need another drink as I read the situation, one I’ve found myself facing for the past year or so. I’m attracted to women, but don’t know how to view it without a lens. Media portrayals say it’s hot, Catholicism says it’s not. Sexuality clouded by a sea of confusion.
