Published May 11, 2021 at 3:23 PM CDT Listen • 18:13 Courtesy of James Tutson
James Tutson of Iowa City was recently featured on NBC’s “The Voice.” He has a new album coming out this summer, and he’s been working on a new project called “Neighbors” aimed at creating a faith community that is inclusive of LGBTQ Iowans with an emphasis on diversity.
Iowa City-based singer-songwriter James Tutson is a local favorite who is having a big year musically. He’s released a couple of new singles. He has an album called, “Still” coming out this summer, and he made an appearance on the hit television show “The Voice.” His music, like his life, is largely inspired by his faith. Here’s a little taste of Holy, a single he released in early April.
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When Chuck Swanson first asked Tess Weaver and Jennifer Black Reinhardt to make a children s book inspired by the 30 granite fish now resting on the Hancher Auditorium s lawn, there was some trepidation.
“I just remembered walking (outside Hancher) wondering what to do, Weaver said. I kept having the strangest image of a trunk being pushed onto a riverbank and then falling back into.”
From there, the ideas began to flow and in a fraction of the time typically taken to write, print and publish a children s book Fishtastic! came to fruition. Fishtastic! A Tale of Magic and Friendship is a new book written by Weaver and illustrated by Reinhardt, both Iowa City-based creators.
Jenna Ladd | October 12, 2017
A new report out of a non-partisan Iowa City-based research center, Iowa Policy Project, states that drainage districts have the power to improve water quality in the state.
About one-third of cropland in Iowa is tiled for drainage. Agricultural drains channel water, which often carries heavy nitrate loads, from fields into local water waterways. Iowa’s nitrate runoff is a primary contributor to the growing Dead Zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Researchers Sarah Garvin, Michael Burkart and David Osterberg recommended using Iowa’s “quasi-governmental” drainage districts an agent of change. The report explains that the districts have the statutory authority to mitigate nitrate runoff by “requiring water quality monitoring and reporting, wetland conservation and restoration, and mandating the installation of bioreactor at discharge points to reduce nitrate loads.”
Train advocates hopeful passenger service in Iowa s future
ZACHARY OREN SMITH, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Apr 30, 2021
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) It’s not hard to get Gene Crosset talking about passenger rail, but don’t call him a “train nut.” He prefers the title “foamer.”
“It comes from the foaming at the mouth when we see trains,” Crosset said.
For decades, Crosset, a 78-year-old living in Davenport, has seen plans for an Iowa City-to-Chicago passenger rail line become a perennial conversation, only to disappear like a train heading into a tunnel.
The possibility exists again, after Amtrak released a map this month featuring new and enhanced lines, part of the $80 billion President Joe Biden designated for rail in his American Jobs Plan. The map included one bright blue line that dog-legged west from Chicago through Moline with a terminus in Iowa City.
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