Gregg HenniganGregg Hennigan covers local government in the Iowa City/Johnson County area, with a focus on city, county and K-12 news. He also has general assignment duties and can be called upon to help with just about any story that occurs south of Interstate 80. Gregg previously worked for an alternative newspaper in Des Moines, covered city and county government in Mankato, Minn., and covered higher education for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. |
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Developers offer plans for Coralville
CORALVILLE — On Tuesday, two teams of developers offered competing proposals for a major redevelopment of 60 acres in Coralville that took on several feet of water in the 2008 flood. The neighborhood, which the city calls Old Town, is south of Fifth Street and north of Clear Creek between First Avenue and Biscuit [...]
Rankings place Eastern Iowa high schools among best in nation
Eastern Iowa schools dominated two national high school rankings released this week. Eight Iowa schools, seven from the eastern part of the state, were represented in Newsweek magazine’s “America’s Best High Schools” list of the 1,000 top public high schools in America. They are: Iowa City West (ranked 462nd overall), Cedar Rapids Washington (723), Cedar Rapids [...]
Johnson auditor race sees more donor support for challenger
IOWA CITY – Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett did not receive as much money from contributors as his opponent in next month’s primary election, but thanks to a loan to himself, he has more cash. Slockett, a Democrat, reported $2,085 in cash contributions between Jan. 1 and May 14, compared with $4,961 for fellow Democrat [...]
Re-branding the Corridor for a more regional edge
When John Miller describes where he works to someone unfamiliar with Iowa, he starts by telling them he’s four hours west of Chicago. He then asks if they’re familiar with Interstate 80 and the Mississippi River. Miller is co-owner of Cedar Rapids-based Hybrid Transit Systems Inc., a freight broker that does business nationally and internationally. [...]
Iowa City Public Library to provide free bus rides for kids this summer
IOWA CITY – The Iowa City Public Library this summer is again providing free bus rides to children and their caregivers. The free rides, on Iowa City buses, will be available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from June 5 through Aug. 9. The buses will stop at Old Capitol Town [...]
Iowa City animal shelter’s $1 million fundraising campaign set to kick off
A nonprofit organization is ready to start a fundraising campaign for a new Iowa City animal shelter. Friends of the Animal Shelter Foundation sent a letter to City Manager Tom Markus this month, saying that it plans to begin a $1 million capital campaign this summer. The city is in the design phase for what [...]
Parents appeal decision to make Iowa City kids walk to new school
The Iowa City school district has been formally asked to review a decision not to bus students from the Miller-Orchard neighborhood to Horn Elementary School next fall. David Dude, the district’s executive director of operational services, said he received identical letters Wednesday afternoon from four families asking that their children be bused. District administrators will [...]
Iowa City takes final actions on ordinances aimed at student apartments
The City Council Tuesday night adopted the final two pieces of a set of three ordinances aimed at limiting the number of new large apartments near downtown and the University of Iowa campus. The council voted 6-0, with Terry Dickens absent, to pass an ordinance preventing the construction of multifamily dwellings with more than three [...]
Iowa City approves new downtown mural
The City Council Tuesday night gave its OK for a mural to be painted on the side of a five-story tall parking ramp downtown. The mural, by Iowa City artist Eliezer Sotillo, is to depict more than a dozen arms and hands that interlock and hold each other. Sotillo plans to spend a month starting [...]
Status of Iowa City district’s plans frustrates North Liberty parents
Feeling like their children’s needs are not being met, some North Liberty parents have discussed breaking up with the Iowa City school district. For many, the idea of forming a new district is more of a sign of how frustrated they have become at what they see as the school board’s wavering on whether to [...]
