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Life in the comedy lane: Former SNL writer and Funny or Die …
April 20, 2016. Since leaving his native Iowa City, Andrew Steele has made a few friends. You may have heard of them: Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Maya Rudolph, to name a few. Steele spent 13 years in 30 Rockefeller Center in the “Saturday Night Live” writers’ room, four of them as head writer. He moved on to be Creative ...
Fact Check | Fact-checking former President Donald Trump’s Iowa …
Oct 10, 2021 · Conjecture that former President Donald Trump is seeking back the White House job he held for four years continued to generate news – and fact checks – in Iowa on Saturday night, Oct. 9. Trump’s latest visit was a Save America Rally that drew thousands of people to the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, and was run by Trump’s ...
Burlington Street Bridge to cost $30 million - The Daily Iowan
Oct 8, 2024 · The Burlington Street Bridge has sparked discussion for a much-needed replacement that could cost the city and Iowa Department of Transportation up to $30 million. Built in 1915, the concrete bridge overlooking the Burlington Dam connects the west side of the University of Iowa’s campus with the east. The last set of major repairs was...
Raising Cane’s opens its doors in downtown Iowa City
Aug 27, 2024 · Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers has opened its doors to University of Iowa students at a new downtown location. On Tuesday, Iowa City welcomed the franchise with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new 201 S. Clinton St. location, formerly home to Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers, in the Old Capitol Mall. The ceremony included Raising Cane’s...
Photos: Ian Haworth visits the University of Iowa
Oct 8, 2024 · The University of Iowa Young Americans for Freedom hosted speaker Ian Haworth, a Jewish conservative media personality, at the Iowa Memorial Union on Monday night. Haworth, near the beginning of his speech, asked the attendees to participate in a moment of silence to commemorate those killed in the conflict over the last year, emphasizing his...
30 years later, UI remembers 1991 shooting - The Daily Iowan
On Nov. 1, 1991, the University of Iowa community faced one of its biggest tragedies. Thirty years later, those closest to the event still feel its effects. It was a quiet, snowy day when enraged former UI graduate student Gang Lu shot and killed five people in two different campus buildings. Among those who lost their lives were Christoph ...
The Daily Iowan | ‘We knew that she was the special one’: Caitlin …
Mar 23, 2021 · Caitlin Clark grew up in the Hawkeye State, and now wears the Black and Gold for the Iowa women’s basketball program, but her childhood bedroom in West Des Moines is still painted baby blue. The freshman point guard was a North Carolina fan growing up, and while she’s taken the flurry of posters down, the...
Iowa lawmakers release proposal to put marijuana legalization on …
Jan 5, 2022 · Three Iowa lawmakers hoping to change the state’s marijuana laws shared their proposed constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in the state on Wednesday. The amendment, announced in December, would transfer regulation of marijuana to Iowa’s Alcoholic Beverage Division and regulate it similar to alcohol. Adults over 21 years old would be able to purchase...
Clinton Street Starbucks reopens to public - The Daily Iowan
October 10, 2024. Emma Calabro for The Daily Iowan. Starbucks employee Caroline Jilek makes a drink at Starbucks on Clinton Street in Iowa City on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2024. After a three-month hiatus, Starbucks reopened with updates to its layout. Students, employees, and community members gathered for the reopening of the Clinton Street Starbucks.