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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Sep
13
Mid-Prairie grade reconfiguration closes* school
Over the past school year, the Mid-Prairie School District (Kalona, Wellman, and West Chester) was trying to figure out what to do with unbalanced class sizes in geography-based elementary attendance centers. In April, the school board decided to divide by … Continue reading
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Sep
12
The last September school election in Iowa
Today will be the last time that school board elections and school-related votes will take place in September. In spring the Iowa Legislature approved combining city and school elections into November of odd-numbered years (bill text here) along with a … Continue reading
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Sep
11
The incredible shrinking Iowa State Daily
When I saw the copies at the Alumni Center, I thought what was there was either an insert or a mistake. But then I looked closer. An eight-page paper the same physical size as a Farm Bureau Spokesman, with four … Continue reading
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Sep
08
Option read, White’s got the corner…
Kirk Ferentz, who became the longest consecutively tenured head coach in college football this season, has yet to have a winning record against what is now the fourth-worst power-conference team in history.
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Sep
07
Four-way stop coming to Lone Tree corner
October 13, 2006: Eastbound IA 22 at old north end of IA 405. Throughout the 45 years that the intersection of IA 22 and the road leading into Lone Tree was a state highway (IA 405), 22 was always the … Continue reading
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Sep
06
50th anniversary of Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Des Moines Hoover schools
The Baby Boom-related expansion of high schools in Iowa began in 1967, when Iowa’s two largest cities opened new buildings. Des Moines Hoover celebrated its anniversary last week (above). Herbert Hoover, Iowa’s only native son elected president, had died three years … Continue reading
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Sep
05
50th anniversary of KMEG
Iowa’s youngest “big three” network affiliate turns 50 years old today. KMEG Channel 14 in Sioux City, a CBS station, is the only such affiliate in Iowa on the UHF spectrum. The switch to digital has largely rendered the VHF/UHF … Continue reading
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Sep
01
Facing the giants
In back-to-back games eight months apart, Iowa State went toe-to-toe with college football royalty and blinked. Or, alternatively, the college football gods noticed what was going on and engineered a snap recalibration. December 27, 2001, Purgatory Shreveport LA The year … Continue reading
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