Though frigid winter weather and a spiraling economy have rocked the restaurant industry, local owners are cooking up new ideas to bring in more customers this spring.
The recession has restricted spending,...
DI: UISG campaigns have kicked off. What role do you have in communicating with candidates to discuss the platforms with the leaders? Have the new party leaders come to speak with you yet?
Mason: They...
Bill Jones was undaunted by the souring economy when he and his friends split off from AMP, a music-review magazine, to start their own review site.
“I started talking to the editor-in-chief … about...
It takes a lot to get most UI students out of bed at 8 a.m., even if it is for class.
But by 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, four UI students were fully awake in a North Central Junior High classroom with shelves...
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors will hold a formal vote today to appoint Andy Johnson as the board’s new executive assistant.
Johnson, 48, is at present the executive director of the Housing...
Networking is beneficial in any profession.
For UI faculty, journeying to academic conferences and sharing research can help boost a career as well as help recruit other professors to the university....
When UI junior Lauren McSweeney walked into Liquor House to pick up a bottle of vodka, her eyes moved down from the shelves of Grey Goose, Absolut, and Three Olives to find something a bit more affordable:...
On Tuesday evening, still sporting a pair of scrubs, Shannon Kussatz trailed her daughters Isabelle, 10, and Maddie, 8, to their Girl Scout field trip to the UI campus. They had gone shopping for Maddie’s...
Of the approximately 40 mopeds outside Hillcrest Tuesday afternoon, only two of them had a flashy orange flag affixed to the rear.
One of the flagless vehicles was Julia Kost’s off-white vehicle. She...
With the tarnish of a bleak economy, the United States hasn’t lost all its glitter for international students.
“[The United States] has, in fact, much better opportunities for international students...
Although UI freshman and smoker Bryn Lee Lovitt is already struggling to pay for her cigarettes, she said today’s tobacco tax increase won’t stop her from lighting up.
“My smoking habit has already...
The UI and the state Board of Regents would both see state funding cuts of about 12 percent under a preliminary education budget passed out of the Iowa Legislature’s joint education appropriations subcommittee...
