When its health-care costs skyrocketed by 90 percent three years ago, the New Pioneer Co-op switched insurance companies.
Although the company — which provides health-care benefits for roughly 144 employees...
Even for Doug True, the UI senior vice president for Finance, budget crunching is no walk in the park.
“I’d like to think that by now, I’ve seen everything,” he said.
But he said he has never...
UI alumnus Tanner Faaborg felt weightless, his self-perception was absent, and his eyes became linked “to what I thought was a new dimension.”
Laughter overtook his helpless body.
“Reality then...
If he lived during the Great Depression, Chris Washington would have ridden the rails. But on Tuesday, he waited for the bus.
“I’ll ride the buses all day. I like jumping from state to state,” he...
Everyone knows what happens when mom and dad drop off their baby in the dorm room: Mom is crying, holding on to every moment of that last hug, while dad nostalgically looks out the window remembering his...
Artfully dodging the sting of the recession, the UI Press is preserving itself with traditional business practices and introducing some new ones, too.
Nationwide book sales for most college presses are...
Attorneys and prosecutors in the Curtis Fry case argued over the use of an intoxication defense at Fry’s final pretrial conference on Wednesday, never reaching a conclusion.
Sixth District Judge Mitchell...
Best-selling author Alice Sebold adorned bright red, rectangular glasses as she began her Wednesday presentation at the IMU by reading from her first novel, The Lovely Bones.
She started, “My name was...
Robert Youle rarely sleeps.
He juggles dozens of cases at his law firm in Colorado while volunteering daily for the American Cancer Society — earning him one of three alumni awards presented by the...
Greg Bal, the UI Student Legal Services’ supervising attorney, wants students to know something about local landlords.
“Landlords in Iowa City are trying to get every penny out of you,” he said...
Iowa City councilors will continue to make large cuts to the city’s operating budget in an effort to balance capital projects and counter economic stresses.
Councilors agreed to cut $1 million from...
In six months, UI senior Evan Malcom will put his accounting degree to use as a corporate accountant at Grant Thornton LLP in Kansas City.
He got a head start in his field thanks to the Volunteer Income...
