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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Local Dems make Afghanistan 2012 caucus issue

LINDSAY DOUGLAS June 28, 2011

Organizers in Iowa City are frustrated at President Obama’s war record and are organizing caucus delegates to push for a quicker end to the war in Afghanistan. With the group Health Care Not Warfare,...

Ride and Read program boosts library circulation

LUKE VOELZ June 28, 2011

City bus tickets are facing a cheaper, plastic alternative: library cards. Iowa City Public Library officials said the library’s Ride & Read program, which allows library cardholders a free ride...

Obama challenger Braun pushes energy reform

KATIE HEINE June 27, 2011

RIVERSIDE, Iowa — Harry Braun is not a politician, and he said so himself in front of nearly 30 people on Sunday. But Braun “believes” in science. And science, he said, is the driving force behind...

Iowa City ‘kicks’ cancer with Tae Kwan Do

BRITTANY TREVICK June 27, 2011

Sonny Nguyen stood straight, stared at the board in front of him, and whipped his head forward and smashed the board in half. He didn’t flinch. “If you don’t break it, then, yes, [it hurts],”...

Club Kazi holds city’s first major Juneteenth festival

LUKE VOELZ June 27, 2011

Though slavery was abolished in the United States almost 150 years ago, LaTasha Massey is using its memory to aid the lives of foster children — whose lives, she said, are often shackled by an uncertain...

Parent Partners helps reunite parents and children

EDDIE KIRSCH June 27, 2011

Nkosanzana “Zee” Brown, 32, will tell you how she lost her children and what it took to get them back with little hesitation. “Our situation, it was drugs involved,” Brown said. “We had six...

Local woman goes back to basics with childcare

LINDSAY DOUGLAS June 27, 2011

Twenty-eight barefoot, ant-collecting kids scatter across the enchanted backyard of the Mary Jo Small Childcare Center, where one Iocal woman ensures imaginations soar every day. “Everybody jump on...

Police: Man drew rifle, assaulted woman

DI STAFF June 27, 2011

A local man was arrested early Sunday morning after allegedly threatening two women. Cheaster Snagg, 22, 1100 Arthur St. Apt. G1, was charged June 26 with first-degree harassment, domestic assault causing...

Man arrested after eluding police in 2007

DI STAFF June 27, 2011

A wanted Coralville man was arrested after leading police on a chase through the Southeast Side of Iowa City more than three years ago. Bradley Kane McDannald, 38, was arrested June 24, after eluding...

Police: Man pulled butcher knife during altercation

DI STAFF June 27, 2011

A local man was arrested after he allegedly swung a butcher knife at a man. Francisco Nunez, 32, 431 Dakota Trail, was charged June 19 with going armed with intent and willful injury causing serious injury. Officers...

Oxford man charged with third DUI

DI STAFF June 27, 2011

The State Patrol arrested an Oxford, Iowa, man after he allegedly drove while intoxicated for the third time. Tim Lee Pudil, 41, was charged June 21 with operating while intoxicated. According to a complaint...

Iowa City schools face zero percent allowable growth

EDDIE KIRSCH June 24, 2011

During the next fiscal year, the Iowa City School District will have more costs but the same budget. And following the Iowa Senate’s recent approval of a 0 percent allowable growth for Iowa schools...