Author Archives: Jeff

Oct 23

IA 58 meeting in Cedar Falls Tuesday

Posted on Friday, October 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

A public hearing with a presentation about changing IA 58’s intersection with Viking Road into an interchange will be held Tuesday, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. The roadbed for current 58 will be lowered and a very tight SPUI constructed. … Continue reading →

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Oct 22

Register’s ‘Lost Schools’ on IPTV tonight

Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Des Moines Register‘s documentary about the changes and decline of rural Iowa’s school districts airs on Iowa Public Television at 7 tonight. Former North Tama principal Nick Pace is among those interviewed. In conjunction with that, Iowa Public Radio interviewed reporter … Continue reading →

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Oct 21

THE FUTURE IS HERE

Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at 6:29 PM by Jeff

…now what? UPDATE: Instead of sweeping, the Cubs got swept, and we haven’t abolished lawyers. This is the timeline that sprung from when Marty didn’t hit the Rolls-Royce on Oct. 27, 1985. Future imperfect, indeed. UPDATE II: USA Today has … Continue reading →

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Oct 21

US 61 Grandview construction update

Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Story from KWQC. If you watch carefully, you’ll see a few seconds of the street sign with “Co Rd 252” on it at the former west end of IA 252. That intersection will be on sort of a frontage road … Continue reading →

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Oct 20

Package of 80/380 interchange plans available

Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at 10:21 AM by Jeff

After a meeting at the end of last month, the DOT released the set of plans for the complete reconstruction of the I-80/380 interchange from a cloverleaf into a sweeping interchange with flyover ramps. It’s broken into nine PDF maps. The … Continue reading →

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Oct 19

More about Iowa’s northern and western borders

Posted on Monday, October 19, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Years ago, I wrote about my research into the back-and-forth of the 1830s and 1840s in creating the shape of the state of Iowa. I mentioned that I had never seen any proposal of a northern border of 45° from … Continue reading →

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Oct 16

Two gamecast firsts for ISU-TCU

Posted on Friday, October 16, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Saturday’s game will have two firsts for Iowa State, not counting the possibility of the Jack Trice Stadium scoreboards registering triple digits for the visiting Horned Frogs.* The game will start at 6 on ESPN2. Iowa State has never been … Continue reading →

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Oct 15

Meeting on US 30 in Story County today

Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Iowa DOT will hold a meeting with a formal presentation about upgrading US 30 between I-35 and Nevada in Ames today at 5. The plan is to close at-grade intersections, build interchanges just east of I-35 (with an all-new overpass … Continue reading →

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Oct 14

Council Bluffs reaches informal agreement on transfer

Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

West Broadway (US 6) and North 16th Street (IA 192) in Council Bluffs will cease to be part of the Iowa highway system within a year, as the city council has approved a “memorandum of understanding” to take over the roads. … Continue reading →

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Oct 13

Should we really be encouraging this sort of thing?

Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at 10:01 AM by Jeff

The 2015 Burlington tourism guide features a smiling family on the cover. There’s nothing unusual about that. They’re all wearing flip-flops except the youngest, who’s wearing Crocs. That’s a warning sign, but they are at a pool with water slides, … Continue reading →

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