Little Village magazine issue 301: Dec. 2021

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‘Cowboy Justice’: A first-hand account of the deadly 1991 UI campus

So, ‘some jackass’ stole your bike? Welcome to Iowa City.

shooting, 30 years later

By Adria Carpenter, Nov. 2

By Mary Allen, Nov. 1

At the Iowa City Bike Library, reports of stolen bikes are a near-daily

It’s Nov. 1, 1991, an ordinary Friday afternoon, the day after Halloween. I’m

occurrence, “and it has been that way for a long time,” said executive

sitting alone in a big office on the fifth floor of Van Allen Hall, where the

director Audrey Wiedemeier. “Once I had told someone to go get the

Physics Department at the University of Iowa is housed, when I hear a

most expensive lock that they could … It got sniped three weeks later.”

loud noise on a floor below: Pop pop pop.

Gov. Reynolds says Iowa will sue to stop federal vaccine requirements;

Iowa City’s Sudanese community joined worldwide

more than 7,000 Iowans have died of COVID, IDPH says

protests against the coup in Sudan

By Paul Brennan, Nov. 4

Video by Jason Smith, story by Paul Brennan, Nov. 1

Iowa “will take immediate legal action to challenge” new OSHA standards

Members of Iowa City’s Sudanese community rallied

regarding workplace COVID-19 vaccinations, Gov. Kim Reynolds said. She

at the Pentacrest on Saturday, Oct. 30, as part of

called the effort to increase vaccination rates and protect workers from

an international day of protests against the military

exposure to the virus “dangerous and unprecedented.”

takeover of the government in Sudan and the harsh repression of civilian protesters opposing the military.

WATCH Iowa City protest against the military coup in Sudan

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