By The Gazette Editorial Board —- Parents hosting parties for teens in their own homes or on their property should be a positive thing. Adults are there to prevent unsafe behavior, such as underage drinking. But some of these hosts don’t accept that responsibility. They effectively throw up their hands and say something like [...]
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Douglas Gentile is trying to manipulate children. As he stands alongside his partner, Peter Komendowski, in front of a classroom full of wide-eyed St. Joseph School students, he uses gimmick after entertaining gimmick in an effort to change the way these learners think about advertising. But Gentile is one of the good guys. “Fight [...]
continue »The Gazette Editorial Board – It’s unsurprising that more University of Iowa students are being arrested for alcohol violations, given the institution’s 2-year-old initiative to crack down on problem drinking among students. We just wish it was as easy to make the numbers tell us more about trends in dangerous drinking among UI students, [...]
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An Iowa City mother who was supposed to be tried in September on accusations she gave her toddler alcohol has been arrested after she failed to appear for her pretrial conference two months ago. A Johnson County judge on Sept. 17 issued a $20,000 warrant for the arrest of Natasha Kriener, 27, charged with child [...]
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MONTEZUMA - An English teacher at Montezuma High School has resigned after he admitted to authorities that he supplied liquor to a teenage boy in a classroom. Derek J. Bates, 26, of Montezuma, was charged Monday with providing alcohol to a person under the legal age and consuming alcohol on public school property. He is accused [...]
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Forget six weeks. If I was out of the office for six years, I probably would have come back to headlines about the University of Iowa’s drinking problems. It’s a head-scratcher that an inclement Iowa town would be home to America’s No. 2 party school (with a bullet, according to the Princeton Review). We’re not [...]
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A director with the Johnson County Ambulance Service said Monday that an influx of spectators in Iowa City for the University of Iowa and Iowa State Football game last weekend likely contributed to the record number of calls they responded to. Steve Spenler, Director of the Johnson County Ambulance Service, said his team responded to [...]
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A woman was taken to the hospital late Thursday night after her vehicle ran into a utility pole on Johnson Avenue NW and flipped on its side. An officer on the scene said the woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and confirmed a witness’ statement that the woman said she had been texting when she crashed into [...]
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Iowa City police have accused a 50-year-old man of providing beer to a group of teenage boys, two of which had been reported missing. Officers also say Donald L. Deege befriended the teens and allowed them to spend the last two weekends at his apartment without their parents’ knowledge. Deege is charged with two counts [...]
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Traffic enforcement cameras hit a dead end, “infused” alcoholic drinks went flat, open meetings got a fresh look and Internet poker appeared to be on line Wednesday as lawmakers scrambled to deal with this week’s self-imposed deadline designed to purge stalled bills from the 2012 legislative landscape. Friday’s “funnel” deadline for non-money bills to clear [...]
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