Monthly Archives: September 2015

Sep 16

DigitalTown appropriating Iowa schools’ names for profit

Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

In retrospect, it’s an obvious strategy: Grab the domain names for every school district in Iowa, using the full name; follow that with the school nickname; make it a dot-com, since most official school district websites end in .k12.ia.us; and … Continue reading →

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Sep 15

Bloomington Road bridge near Marion to be demolished

Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The 90-year-old truss bridge on a still-gravel Lincoln Highway loop in Linn County will be replaced, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reports. The bridge was not old enough to be an official part of Lincoln Highway (the Marion routing was changed … Continue reading →

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Sep 14

One vote matters

Posted on Monday, September 14, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Two stories about the power of one: A Riceville school board candidate failed to win election because he didn’t take time to vote for himself — and no one else did either. In Columbia, Missouri, businesses along Business Loop I-70 … Continue reading →

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Sep 13

Black and Gold 2, Red 0

Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Wapsie Valley 42, North Tama 0; Iowa 31, Iowa State 17. If ISU plays the rest of the season as listlessly as they did in the second half, Paul Rhoads will be out of a job.

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Sep 11

A football prediction, unmade

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Throughout the summer and until Saturday, I was predicting that the losing coach of this week’s Iowa-ISU game would be fired at the end of the season. This past week, I haven’t been so sure. Iowa State looked good (i.e. … Continue reading →

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Sep 10

AHSTW succeeds; bond issues go down in flames

Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

AHST and Walnut overwhelmingly approved consolidation Tuesday, multiple sources report (Register/AP, Nonpareil). Also in southwest Iowa, Fremont-Mills approved a bond issue, but it’s about the only winner this week. Throughout the state, other bond issues not only failed to reach … Continue reading →

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Sep 09

RUn-MMC

Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union school boards Sept. 2 gave the second approval for a whole-grade-sharing agreement starting in 2016, KTIV reports. Marcus gets the high school, Remsen gets grades 5-8, each keep their own elementaries. The story says that in November, … Continue reading →

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Sep 08

Last summer at Camp Tahigwa?

Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Des Moines Register photojournalist Kelsey Kremer, a former Girl Scout and now counselor at Camp Tahigwa, has created a Web video and written commentary about what the camp in far northeast Iowa means to her. I made a blog post … Continue reading →

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Sep 07

US 77 and I-129 pages updated, for real this time

Posted on Monday, September 7, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 4, 2014: This photo from I-29 northbound at I-129 is now on the I-129 page. I made a blog post in mid-June announcing the addition of photos from last summer onto a bunch of pages. I included US 77’s north … Continue reading →

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Sep 05

IA 100 construction update

Posted on Saturday, September 5, 2015, at 11:14 AM by Jeff

The Gazette had an article and photos this week about progress on the western extension of IA 100. The bridge for Covington Road (former IA 94) opened over the future freeway Wednesday. Construction is on schedule, and Edgewood Road should … Continue reading →

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