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DES MOINES — The U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley may do something that a controversial elections bill at the Statehouse is said by backers to achieve but almost certainly will not: shorten the next campaign.

As the debate around President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill continues in Congress, a new advertisement airing in Iowa takes Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks to task over her position on COVID-19 relief.

IOWA CITY — As unimaginable as it might seem for the thousands of Iowa City Public Library patrons who have browsed the building in the last four decades, there was a time when the future of the facility wasn’t in downtown Iowa City.

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

The metaphor “my heart skips a beat” usually refers to shock, but for atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients, it’s a literal occurrence.
AFib is a type of heart arrhythmia that affects more than three million people in the U.S; it’s a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat that causes the heart to beat quickly or irregularly.

Providers have surpassed administering 700,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in Iowa since the first inoculations in December, state public health data released Sunday show.The vast majority of those shots — 679,016 of the total 705,151 — went to Iowans, the data show.

Iowa City police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating an autistic man missing since Saturday afternoon.

The number of people being treated for coronavirus in Iowa hospitals continued to decline Saturday, although the state confirmed 558 new cases of the disease.

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IOWA CITY — When he was the top federal prosecutor in southern Iowa, Nicholas Klinefeldt won praise for reducing the use of mandatory minimum sentences and enhancements that he argued put too many nonviolent drug offenders in prison for too long.