In an open letter directed to the Joint Entities of Johnson County, the Excluded Workers Fund Coalition called the plan an “exclusionary, casino-style lottery system”.
Chains Interrupted is a Cedar Rapids based nonprofit that works to stop human trafficking. It’s hosting a webinar this Thursday to educate people on how technology is used by traffickers.
He says one reason they likely saw that decline has to do with how many guns they were able to take off the streets. In 2020, police seized 67 weapons and in 2021 they seized 133, nearly doubling the number.
Iowa House Republicans are proposing eliminating retirement income taxes in a move that would cost the state about $2 billion in revenue over the first six years.
According to the Iowa City Community School District’s mask exemption form, both her children should be excused from wearing a mask. But the school told her she had to have their form filled out by their primary care provider.
A Cedar Rapids nurse has been sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to diverting fentanyl for her own use at a local outpatient surgery center.
Attorneys for an Iowa family said in a lawsuit that they believe the way the Dubuque school district responded to bullying contributed to a girl being sexually assaulted at school in 2019.
Earlier this week, the school district approved the construction of the nearly $6.4 million Marion Stadium Project. Led by Larson Construction, the plan is to break ground in March and completely relocate the stadium closer to the school.
Jackson faces three charges of first-degree murder for the deaths of 61-year-old Jan Perry Jackson, 68-year-old Melissa Ferne Jackson, and 19-year-old Sabrina Hana Jackson, 19.
A reserve officer with the Cedar Rapids police department will not face criminal charges for a December incident in which he shot at a suspect who had hit him with a vehicle.
We parked the car in the morning and left the vehicle there until parking meters are no longer enforced, which is 6pm. The following day, we repeated the process in a different parking spot.
PETA is asking the Allamakee County Attorney to investigate Agri Star Meat & Poultry in Postville after it says hundreds of chickens were smothered to death in two separate incidents last summer.
