The University of Iowa announced it will moving classes online on the first day of the spring semester because of dangerous cold, with wind chills that could reach -40 degrees.
For about two and a half years, the Iowa City Community School District was able to provide free lunches for all students thanks to federal COVID-relief funding. But with that money no longer available and faced with losing money because of negative student accounts, the district was forced to return to its pre-COVID school lunch.