Drivers will be happy to know the massive reconstruction of the Interstate 80/380 interchange is nearing completion ahead of schedule. The goal is to get the last two ramps open by the end of this month.
Of Iowa’s 940 cities, about 200 have city managers or administrators. In many cases, these managers are the highest-paid, or among the highest-paid, city employees. But what do they do and how do they run a city? Here’s a look at a day in the life of several Iowa city managers and how they balance everything from disaster response to patching potholes.