1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (536+ words) People attend a Linn County Board of Supervisors meeting in February in Palo about a proposed data center ordinance. From my vantage point, the current data center expansion looks and sounds a lot like the early 1990s when giant hog factories…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (239+ words) Good Saturday morning….I hope your weekend is off to a good start. K-12 Education Reporter Grace King has a story about Grant Wood Elementary, which is receiving national recognition for exceptional third-grade literacy achievement, results that school leaders say…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (287+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS — The city of Cedar Rapids is ranked No. 14 on employment website Indeed’s inaugural list of Best Cities for Work. The index ranks 228 U.S. metro areas with populations of 200,000 or more based on six “pillars”: job opportunity; compensation;…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (592+ words) Kicked out of the house at 13, pastor Ray Coleman at Mt. Zio… The new taxing district received overwhelming support in Tue… Luciano I. de Castro, interim director and professor of economics at the University of Iowa, and Christine Hensley, Iowa…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (516+ words) Construction continues during an update at the Google data center site May 30, 2025, in Cedar Rapids. I have been in public life for more than 15 years, as a school board member, in the state Legislature, and as one of Gov. Kim…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (792+ words) A chair sits empty beside Iowa City school board member Mitch Lingo at an Aug. 25 board meeting at the Educational Services Center in Iowa City. The chair is where board member Jayne Finch sat before she resigned last week. As…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1527+ words) Zach Lahn, Republican candidate for Iowa governor, speaks to local residents during a meet and greet Aug. 4, in Hampton, Iowa. Iowa gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn eagerly champions the unconventional, hands-on private school he helped launch in Kansas as the best…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (575+ words) IOWA CITY — Even before officially taking effect next month, a new federal rule capping international students at four years to finish their degree without an extension “has already inflicted serious, irreparable harm” on Iowa’s Grinnell College, the campus president wrote…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (211+ words) I think there are hundreds of questions and concerns about data centers that need to be answered before another one is built. How much electricity will be used? Where will they get enough electricity? How much will electric bills go…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (747+ words) State Rep. Taylor Collins delivers a statement during the inaugural event hosted by the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa last December in Iowa City. IOWA CITY — As tens of thousands of students flood Iowa’s public university…...