By Bob Elliott —- What if someone proposed a plan to significantly decrease traffic accidents in Iowa City, while it also generated additional money for the city? Compound that with knowledge that a similar plan has already proven successful in Cedar Rapids. Too good to be true? Unfortunately, yes. You can blame it on [...]

You don’t have to tell longtime Tiffin resident and mother of three Angie Dains that her city and the surrounding communities are booming and soon could be bursting at the seams. She can see it in the hallways of her children’s schools. She can hear it in the construction work surrounding her neighborhood. She can [...]

The first phase on New Pioneer Food Co-op’s possible expansion is in the works with several member forums scheduled to discuss the opening of a third location or the relocation of its Iowa City venue. “The board will cover questions outlined in the brochure sent to all of our members and then answer any other [...]

Iowa City is proposing cutting Sunday service and discounted fares from a public transit service for the elderly and people with disabilities. The proposal is the latest in a months-long dispute between Iowa City, and also Coralville, and Johnson County over the SEATS program. No Sunday service could hurt people with jobs, and the loss [...]

Intense criticism will not keep the city of Iowa City from moving forward with a developer planning to construct a high-rise building on city-owned land. The City Council rejected Tuesday night a rezoning proposal aimed at preventing Marc Moen from building a $53.8 million, 20-story building he’s calling The Chauncey at the intersection of College [...]

IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night OK’d a grant application that would provide money to put armed police officers in secondary schools in the Iowa City Community School District. The intent is to hire two new police officers to serve as what are known as school resource officers in the district’s three high [...]

Iowa City Council members indicated Tuesday night they would put a stop to plans to install red-light cameras in town – at least for now. Meeting in a work session, no City Council member voiced objections to a recommendation from city staffers that the ordinance allowing traffic-enforcement cameras, like red-light and speed cameras, be repealed. [...]

  By Allen Witt —- Iowa City and Cedar Rapids are now considered a combined statistical area for the Creative Corridor. This is a long time coming because in the 2000 census the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area fell short by 0.6 percent of becoming a combined [...]

IOWA CITY – On a day a bicyclist beat a car and a bus in a race between Coralville and Iowa City, a national organization said Iowa City has become more bicycle friendly. The League of American Bicyclists announced Monday that Iowa City’s Bicycle Friendly Communities status had been upgraded from bronze to silver. It’s [...]

New Pioneer Food Co-op wants to open a third location, and it could find its home in Cedar Rapids. The co-op opened a store in Cedar Rapids in 1988 and closed it just one year later. But recent marketing study shows that consumer interests in the area have changed. A store could be supported anywhere [...]