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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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An ambulance takes away a intoxicated drinker at east Washington St. on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. (File Photo/The Daily Iowan)

Medical amnesty continues to advance in Iowa Legislature

Elianna Novitch, [email protected] March 28, 2018
After the measure passed the Iowa Senate last year, student leaders continue to push medical-amnesty legislation in the House, hoping lawmakers will pass it this session.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during her first Condition of the State address in the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Reynolds took over the governor office in May of 2017. (Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan)

Reynolds approves $10.9 million funding cuts

March 28, 2018

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed 23 bills into law on Wednesday, one of which will cut $10.9 million from the fiscal 2018 budgets of the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. In a press release from...

A dockless bike stands before a row of docked bikes in Washington on March 12. Iowa City is considering bringing a dockless bike-share system to town after the technology has had success in many cities nationwide. (Katelyn Weisbrod/The Daily Iowan)

IC jumps on dockless bike-share trend

Katelyn Weisbrod, [email protected] March 26, 2018
Iowa City will soon get its own bike-share program, after a 2015 plan never came to fruition.
Vice Presidential candidates address questions on campus issues during the UISG VP debate at the Shambaugh Auditorium on March 22, 2018. The candidates discussed their strategies in bettering student life and how to improve university programs. (Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan)

VP candidates speak out on campus issues

Andy Mitchell, [email protected] March 22, 2018
Candidates spoke about sexual assault, food insecurity, and rising tuition in Shambaugh Auditorium.
Medical grade marijuana in a June 25, 2009, file image at The Green Cross dispensary in San Francisco. (Maria J. Avila/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Medical marijuana providers bid to open new dispensaries in Iowa City area

Emma Sailor, [email protected] March 21, 2018
Two companies have applied with the Iowa Department of Public Health to open new dispensaries in Iowa City and Coralville following legislation that will expand access to medical marijuana in the state.
The Iowa House Chamber is seen during Hawkeye Caucus at the State Capitol in Des Moines on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan)

Iowa House passes about $11 million in midyear cuts to UI, ISU

Marissa Payne, [email protected] March 20, 2018
The Iowa House is sending a revised budget bill, including around $11 million in cuts to the UI and ISU, to the Senate for a final vote.
The Oakdale Community Choir rehearses at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center on Tuesday, March, 20, 2018. The choir consists of both inmates and outside volunteers. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan)

Oakdale Community Choir, “hope in the face of justice”

Charles Peckman, [email protected] March 20, 2018
Oakdale Community Choir gives prison inmates a voice in song.
Iowa City apartments begin to offer recycling as rental permits are renewed

Iowa City apartments begin to offer recycling as rental permits are renewed

Brooklyn Draisey, [email protected] March 19, 2018
Since the City Council passed a regulation requiring multifamily units and condominiums to provide recycling, the response has been fairly positive.
The Old Capitol is seen on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.

Nazi graffiti reported on UI campus

March 19, 2018

According to a campus-wide email from the University of Iowa on Monday night, the Iowa City Police Department received reports of two instances of Nazi graffiti on Wednesday, March 14 and Sunday, March...

Iowa's Spencer Lee competes against Rutgers's Nick Suriano in the 125-pound final bout of the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland, OH. Lee defeated Suriano by decision, 5-1, placing first in the tournament. This is Lee's first national title. (Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan)

Iowa’s Spencer Lee earned national champion wrestling title

James Geerdes, [email protected] March 19, 2018
Spencer Lee tore through the best wrestlers in the nation on his way to the 125-pound title.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, stands at a hearing March 14 addressing oversight in the Parkland, Florida, school shootings, in which 17 people died.

Judiciary hearing points to failures leading to Parkland shooting

Gage Miskimen, [email protected] March 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — As students across the nation rallied against gun violence with school walkouts, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, presided over the “See Something, Say Something” Senate Judiciary Committee...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sat down with Daily Iowan reporters on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Grassley discussed his disagreement with President Trump's decision to remove Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Gage Miskimen/The Daily Iowan)

Grassley comments on Tillerson firing

March 13, 2018

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said that if it were up to him, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would not have been fired. “I look at it this way: The president is the president...