2008 Woodie Awards
As he delivered the keynote address at the Johnson County Republicans' annual Reagan Society dinner in Coralville on Wednesday, Arizona Sen. John McCain made numerous references to the former president.
"Ronald Reagan, in the view of many, didn't understand all the details of every issue - and that may be true," the senator said. "But he had a core set of values and principles."
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The UI's history department has come under scrutiny about whether it discriminates against non-Democrats when hiring staff.
Checking the entire history faculty's current voter-registration information, The Daily Iowan found of the 31 current faculty, 22 were registered Democrats, zero registered Republicans, five no party or not marked, and four non-registered in Johnson County.
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Bobcats beware.
This fall marks southern Iowa's first bobcat hunting season, four years after researchers began studying the recolonization of the furry beast.
The hunting season, which will begin Nov. 3, typically lasts through Jan. 31, but this year's is expected to last only two or three weeks because of "ultra conservative quotas" put in place.
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For flight nurses Tom Toycen and Dave Miller, flying is the only way travel - especially when it's a life-and-death situation.
The two men work for the UI Hospitals and Clinics, lifting the sick and wounded into the air.
And though most of the time you won't find any physicians on board the AirCare helicopter, located on the UIHC roof, there isn't much that the two flight nurses can't achieve when transporting a patient to Iowa City.
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As soon as Stanley Sedore saw a yellow and blue plastic badge in a young boy's mouth the night of Oct. 9, he quickly grabbed it and explained why the plastic diamonds need to be returned.
The badges were coated with lead paint.
"They say it's OK because the badges don't go in the mouths," Sedore, a Cub Scout den leader, said to his Cub Scouts group from Regina Elementary School. "But as we can see, kids put them in their mouths, chew on the rope, and chew on the beads."
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SpongeBob Squarepants journals, Curious George Spinning Tops, and Barbie doll accessories -these are just a few of the products the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled over the past few months due to the presence of lead in the toys.
Now, there are lead-testing products available that can easily detect lead - though the test is relatively unheard of in Iowa City.
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With more and more National Guard troops - many of them college students - called to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, several states are offering tuition breaks for returning veterans.
The number of states offering full-tuition waivers for veterans increased dramatically since 9/11: from six to 22, including Iowa's neighbor, Illinois.
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Drivers may not have to worry about change for parking, because both Iowa City and the UI are looking to new meters and pay stations that accept credit cards.
"People are starting to expect to be able to pay with a credit card, and when it's not possible, they get concerned," said Jeff Rahn, parking and facilities operations manager for the UI.
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The Iowa City School District approved an application for additional funding this week to further aid special-education students.
The plan, which will allow the district to tap into local property-tax dollars, happens almost every year as a result of a lack of funding from the federal government, said Associate Superintendent Jim Behle. This way, he added, the district will not be forced to use its own dollars.
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"Quick and easy" may be the dinner-making motto for many American families, but one UI professor's research shows "convenience foods" may not have a huge effect on prep time or nutrition.
Margaret Beck, a UI assistant professor of anthropology, recently conducted a survey on the dinner-making habits of 32 families in Los Angeles County, Calif.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, according to the United States Public Interest Research Group.
A member of the Iowa chapter of PIRG was on campus Wednesday with clipboards and giveaways similar to those that credit-card companies use to lure college students into high-interest credit plans.
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The annual number of complaints to the Iowa City Police Citizens Review Board for the fiscal 2007 remains largely unchanged according to the City Clerk's office yearly report.
The police-board report, which is submitted to the Iowa City City Council each year for review, shows that for the seventh year in a row, the board has received roughly the same number of complaints each year and sustained a similar number of allegations from the complaints.
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Woman charged in gas-station robbery
The woman who allegedly drove a getaway car for her boyfriend after he allegedly robbed a Coralville Hy-Vee gas station was arrested Wednesday.
Sherrica Barnette, 31, was charged Oct. 2 with accessory after the fact for her alleged role in the Aug. 24 armed robbery.
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In the Oct. 10 article, "Faculty Council takes no stance on 21-only," the DI mistakenly reported that UI law Professor James Tomkovicz said it is inappropriate for the Faculty Council to vote on endorsing the 21-ordinance.
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