Iowa City Press-Citizen
Speaking in June about tuition hikes, Iowa university students called upon their state lawmakers to look in the mirror. Many of us are familiar with recent trends in state funding to colleges that have caused the cost of higher education to be placed on students in a way that makes it unaffordable and inaccessible, Regan Smock, undergraduate student body president of the University of Iowa, told the regents in June.
It s far more complicated than that, however.
State lawmakers have long been split across the aisle on just how much funding should go to public universities. And as costs of higher education have risen nationwide, and appropriations have fallen or stagnated, students are increasingly looking for answers about the money required for a degree.
Pending Iowa tuition increases renew debate about who is at fault
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Johnson County Republicans have tapped Phil Hemingway, 61, to carry the party s standard into another Board of Supervisors special election. He billed his bid as a solution to one-party rule. Having a different group looking at the books is important, Hemingway told the Press-Citizen on Tuesday. Everyone should pay attention to that.
While the June 8 special election will be his fourth try at a spot on the County Board, he believes he s already had an impact in how even Democrats campaign for the seats. Everyone is now talking about rural representation since I brought it up, Hemingway said. The Democrats running talk about it, too.
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[Correction: Two candidates live outside of the Iowa City metro: Jon Green of Lone Tree and Susan Vileta of Swisher. An earlier version of this article misidentified Green as the sole candidate living outside the Iowa City metro.]
A Johnson County candidate got a big endorsement from the senator from Vermont on Monday. As mayor of Lone Tree, Jon successfully fought for living wages and to revitalize rural Iowa through access to broadband and affordable child care. I m proud to support his grassroots campaign for Johnson County Supervisor, Sanders said in a statement Monday. Jon was one of the earliest Bernie supporters in Iowa and a real advocate for rural Iowans, Sanders political director Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben tweeted Monday.
Micah Broekemeier, a 29-year-old former Marine and history student at the University of Iowa, hopes to be the second Republican to win a Johnson County Supervisor spot in the last decade.
Broekemeier transferred to Iowa in 2020, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic. But he said the transition from Iowa Western Community College wasn’t difficult.
“I had no college experience. I d never taken (college) classes or anything like that. I just showed up and said, ‘Hey, I guess this is how college works, right? ” Broekemeier said. “They told me things were a little different this year.”
He wasn’t in town for long before he caught wind of the area’s nickname, “The Peoples’ Republic of Johnson County.” And he wasn’t daunted by it.
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