So that’s why the University of Iowa wouldn’t let “Girls” come over:
“(W)e were told that yes, our neighborhood is supposed to be Iowa in the coming season, and yes, there will be a frat party with some Lena Dunham Jell-O wrestling action,” the site reported in April.
The last few blocks of IA 3 are getting a makeover today. Dubuque is converting a handful of streets that run east-west into two-way streets instead of one-ways, including 9th and 11th, which currently carry US 52 and IA 3 between the US 61/151 freeway and White and Central streets. KCRG and KWWL both have stories.
This should not, or at least doesn’t have to, change the signage of the highways in the area. The exit from US 61/151 is designed with the one-ways in mind. It’s not unheard of for a two-way street to carry only one direction of a road, just really rare. The change will eventually be a moot point for US 52 and IA 3 anyway, because they will no longer run there when the Southwest Connector is built. (Eventually. Very, very eventually.)
October 12, 2001: The flash on this picture reveals that “1st Ave” was a greenout for the original label “Coralville” on this I-80 BGS.
The state just finished rebuilding and expanding I-80 in the Iowa City area, but Coralville is hungry for more. The First Avenue exit, currently a regular diamond, is getting more traffic both because of suburban expansion and new retail in the area. The city has proposed a diverging diamond interchange, which would be the second in Iowa after the upcoming Alice’s Road Grand Prairie Parkway project in Waukee.
Also of interest at the bottom of the article: Converting the cloverleaf at I-380’s south end (taking IA 100’s place on the Real Soon Now timeline) and an exit on I-380 two miles north of there.
“Did you know that the Sioux County town of Hull, population 2,175, supports three high schools?” asks the Sioux City Journal. No, I did not. That’s probably because Trinity Christian, school number 3, has only had two graduating classes and has fewer than 100 K-12 students.
(I didn’t know there was an Ankeny Christian either, until they made the boys’ state basketball tournament against North Tama, but that is perhaps another post.)
Of all the cities in Iowa with three or more high schools including private schools, Hull is by far the outlier by population and characteristics. Western Christian, the more established private school in Hull, is larger than the public school (Boyden-Hull) although not by all that much. The only other place remotely in the same situation is Carroll, where Kuemper has enough clout that the school district is unable to pass any tax levies.
As the Journal helpfully explains, Western Christian is Christian Reformed-based while Trinity Christian is Protestant Reformed Christian-based. (Splitters!)
Unrelated, yet on a similar subject: In Polk County, Grand View Christian, after separating from Grandview Park Baptist Church, has moved into Saydel’s former Norwoodville school just north of Des Moines.
Here’s a big jump that raises the question of whether CO’s and CQ’s were used in the current cycle. They should, because I’m pretty sure they were used the first time around.
EDIT: Incorrect reference to Tama County in 1997.
There’s some grading and the beginnings of culverts for a four-lane US 20 between Moville and Correctionville, reports KCAU*.
After traveling current 20 and old 20 in the area earlier this summer, before any construction began, I can see why this process is going to take a while. When you look at the map, “old 20” by Cushing is where the rolling hills begin and later become the Loess Hills. On paper, it looks easy, but then you see that climb, and lots of trees, right outside of Correctionville.
The intersection ahead of the van is where the new IA 31 will be built to bypass Correctionville. The semi is on one of the frequent passing lanes on current 20, which will have to be torn up when new lanes are built on top of or very near that grade.
The 15 miles between Moville and Correctionville are all that are programmed right now, but that represents a third of the remaining segment to be four-laned in Iowa.
*Nexstar stations continue to avoid using the call letters in Web addresses. In fact, kcau.com is still available.
“A Clinton teen was named Miss Scott County…” Wait, what?
Of four winners crowned in the Miss Scott County pageant Saturday, only one of them lives in Scott County.
And we’ll have pun, pun, pun ’til our daddy takes the keyboard away…
Chicago Tribune (bonus points for using the word ‘kerfuffle’):
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is milking an Upstate-Downstate kerfuffle with Republican Bruce Rauner’s running mate over an udderly moooo-ving issue: Cow Tipping.
Quinn suggested Republican lieutenant governor candidate Evelyn Sanguinetti should issue an apology to the state’s cow population over what she says amounted to a “jovial” reference about tipping them over….
“They deserve to stand up right, and we’re proud of our cows, and the Illinois cows are the best there ever was,” Quinn said.
The actual comment, made in early 2013, was, “Isn’t cow tipping a work requirement in Springfield (LOL)?” Springfield’s paper, very upset that its city’s ox got gored, wrote an editorial calling for an apology. Chicago has always had a beef about Springfield being the capital, downstate Illinois feels like it’s been put out to pasture, and everyone is going to milk this until the cows come home.
Were Illinois’ cattle rustled by this remark or just a-moo-sed? We’ll have to ruminate on it.
Mary Walk, master gardener: “I was born and raised in Woden so I still consider myself kind of a city girl.”
Woden’s population is 229.
If you want to see a bunch of college trophies in one place, you don’t have to go any further than this year’s Iowa State Fair.
The universities are showing off their trophies in their booths at the Varied Industries Building:
