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WHO: Michigan Wolverines (19-8, 10-6 Big Ten)
WHEN: 6:00 PM CT (Wednesday, February 26, 2025)
WHERE: Crisler Center (Ann Arbor, MI)
TV: BTN+ ($)
RADIO: Hawkee Radio Network (Rob Brooks, Kathryn Reynolds)
MOBILE: BTN+ ($)
ONLINE: BTN+ ($)
FOLLOW: @HawkeyeBeacon | @IowaWBB | @IowaonBTN
LINE: Michigan -2.5 (total of 146.5)

After a pair of close call losses to top-tier competition in Ohio State and UCLA, Iowa makes one final Big Ten road trip to take on Michigan. The Wolverines are 19-8 overall and 10-6 in Big Ten action, tied for 6th in the Big Ten with Michigan State. Iowa is currently 8-8 in the league and tied for 11th in the Big Ten with Minnesota. Olivia Olson leads Michigan in scoring (16.3 ppg) and is second in rebounding (5.5 rpg). Syla Swords is second on the team in scoring (15.7 ppg) and first in rebounding (6.2 rpg).

The 10-15 seeds all play on Day 1 of the Big Ten Tournament: 11 vs 14, 10 vs 15, 12 vs 13
The 5-9 seeds all get byes on Day 1 of the Big Ten Tournament
The 1-4 seeds all get byes on Days 1 and 2 of the Big Ten Tournament

Any hope of getting a Day 1 bye for Iowa involves sweeping the final two games of the season (Michigan tonight, Wisconsin this weekend).

A desire for jobs and better career opportunities are the main factors fueling Iowa's brain drain.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/02/24/iowa-college-graduates-leaving-state-better-career-opportunities/

The Midwestern economy improved slightly during January, according to the latest Creighton University survey, but Iowa’s economy continued to struggle.


Creighton economist Ernie Goss says supply managers are fearful new tariffs will hurt business, and in anticipation, many firms increased inventory levels during January and boosted imports to a record high. For only the third time since last July, Goss says the overall Business Conditions Index climbed above growth neutral.


“It’s much like what the Federal Reserve had to say last week,” Goss says. “The economy is doing okay, but it’s skimming like a stone, skimming across the water. It goes below the water and above the water, below the water, above the water. That’s the way the manufacturing economy in Mid America is doing, according to our survey.”


The survey is based on a zero-to-100 scale, with 50 being growth neutral. For January, Iowa’s economy hit a regional low of 43.1, which was up from December’s score of 40.8. Still, Goss says more employers in the region added to their workforces during the month.


“Hiring, wow, it went up above growth neutral, and this is the first time in some time it’s risen above growth neutral,” Goss says. “We’ve had almost a year of below growth neutral readings, and it rose to 51.1 and that’s up from December’s 46.4 and that’s almost, I won’t call it great news, but it was good news compared to what we’ve been seeing.”


For a fourth straight month, Goss says the wholesale price inflation gauge rose, but it continues to indicate modest inflation. Because of that, he expects the Federal Reserve to pause on any interest rate change at its next meeting in mid-March.


Despite weak manufacturing employment readings over the past year, Goss says about one in five firms reported labor shortages.


“The nation’s lost for 2024 about 93,000 jobs, and that’s about eight-tenths of 1%,” Goss says. “Our Mid America region lost about 7,900 jobs in the year, and that’s about five-tenths of 1%.”


According to the latest U.S. International Trade Administration data, Iowa experienced a $1.5 billion drop in 2024 year-to-date manufacturing exports compared to the same period in 2023 for a 9.6% decline.

Anyone know his connections or area of recruitment. Seems to do well with under-recruited transfers and guards. Is he just better at evaluating under recruited talent from the portal or lucky?

Police were called to the 3900 block of Central Avenue on Oct. 1, 2024 for an unconscious one-year-old. The fire department also responded and provided medical attention to the child.

Investigators said Scott was in the bathroom and Madelyn Marcov was in the living room when the infant fell into a bucket of bleach water. His head was submerged in the water for an undisclosed amount of time, according to a criminal complaint.


Another child carried the one-year-old back towards the living room and yelled for Scott and Madelyn. That’s when Madelyn called 911.

The one-year-old suffered acute respiratory failure and loss of consciousness. He was taken to the hospital and was intubated before being taken to the hospital in Iowa City.

A criminal complaint says police later conducted a search warrant of the Marcov’s home and described it as filthy. Officers said they saw mice moving around, and one dead mouse on the floor of the kitchen. There was garbage and food all over the floor and countertops. A dirty diaper was found in a cooking pot on the kitchen countertop.

Libraries that are “dues-paying members” of certain nationwide nonprofit organizations would be cut off from one avenue of state funding under legislation being considered by Iowa state lawmakers.



The Senate State Government Subcommittee advanced Senate File 238, which would halt state funding to public libraries from the Enrich Iowa program if they are members of nationwide nonprofit organizations that promote federal and state legislation related to libraries and engage in advocacy efforts at the federal and state levels.


Enrich Iowa, run through the State Library of Iowa, appropriates money to libraries for open access, interlibrary loan reimbursement and direct state aid.




Though it is not specifically mentioned in the bill, lawmakers and committee attendees highlighted the American Library Association as the bill’s main target. The American Library Association is the largest library membership organization.


Supporters of the legislation argue the ALA is politically motivated, and they disagree with content in specific library books.

Sen. Sandy Salmon, R-Janesville
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Sandy Salmon, R-Janesville, said she appreciates library services, but believes the ALA does not protect children from sexually explicit materials.


“The ALA does not represent Iowa values of parental rights, protection of the natural modesty and innocent childhood, protection of children's sexuality and sexual identity and protection of children from being groomed for sexual abuse and exploitation,” Salmon said.


Sen. Cindy Winkler, D-Davenport, said state funding should not be tied to organization membership, adding that ALA funding allows libraries to have access to more materials and resources.


“When we start micromanaging and taking away the leadership that is provided by our local boards in our communities, we silence the voices of the members,” Winkler said. "To associate state funding with belonging to a professional organization makes no sense at all.”

The Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6-1 in favor of rezoning an underdeveloped property in north Iowa City to make way for an 84-unit apartment complex, pending City Council approval.



However, some north side residents urged commissioners to vote against the rezoning over the size of the proposed project, directly north of Happy Hollow park, and saying it doesn’t fit with the rest of the neighborhood.


The proposed complex includes two buildings, each with 42 units, and offers a mix of market-rate one- and two-bedroom units. The buildings would be about 236 feet wide, which those opposed to the rezoning pointed out is the same size as some city blocks. The development also would include a surface lot and underground parking.




Commissioners who voted in favor of the rezoning cited the need to increase the city’s housing stock, regardless of concerns about building size.


“ … I think we need more housing. We pay too much for housing, and a lot of people can't afford to live here, and if we want to change that, we need to build more housing units. This is an opportunity to do that, which would bring housing prices down for all of us,” Commissioner Scott Quellhorst said at a meeting last week.


Commissioner Billie Townsend, the lone dissenting vote, agreed that adding more housing units should be a priority but disagreed with the proposal.


“I'll probably be the only no vote on this one, only because I'm looking at these units and the neighborhood, and they're huge. … I think it needs to be reconfigured, if it could be, but that's my opinion. It just doesn't fit in with the look of the neighborhood right now,” Townsend said at the meeting.

City acting as co-applicant in rezoning request​

The city is acting as a co-applicant for the rezoning application for the 5.49 acre property in part with the developer, Tracy Barkalow’s TSB Holdings.


“The city would like to see a cohesive development on the subject property, as opposed to that which would be allowed under the current zoning,” Iowa City Senior Planner Anne Russett said at the commission meeting. “We'd also like to see compliance with our modern zoning regulations, which include our sensitive areas ordinance and our multi family site development standards, which regulate things like screening, parking, design and building materials.”


TSB Holdings is asking that the property be rezoned to high density single family zone and medium density multifamily zone.


The plan would be to demolish an existing vacant office building and two single family homes along Governor Street. Along Dodge Street, there are two existing duplexes and two multifamily residences. While they would remain, the development plan would convert one of the duplexes to a single family home to adhere to zoning standards.

It was a revealing moment in the Oval Office Monday when President Donald Trump was told that Europe would not be joining his coalition of the billing.
The message was delivered cordially but directly by French President Emmanuel Macron, who contradicted the U.S. president to his face.

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Trump, indulging his passion for fairy tales, said Europeans were just lending aid to Kyiv and would “get their money back.”

That’s when Macron cut him off, placing a hand gently on Trump’s forearm. “No,” said the French president, who had already deployed ample flattery for “dear Donald.” “In fact, to be frank, we paid 60 percent of the total effort, and it was through — like the U.S. — loans, guarantees, grants.”

Macron ignored Trump’s yeah-sure-pal smirk and pressed his point: Europe, whose total aid to Ukraine exceeds Washington’s, has “provided real money, to be clear.” And it would not be joining Trump in gouging Kyiv with demands for payback.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/07/trump-europe-contagion/

The language gap has never been wider between Europe and the United States. Europeans, reeling as Trump rips up an 80-year-old alliance like a used spa day pass, are clutching at bedrock values: democracy, fairness, territorial integrity and the right of states to freely choose their alliances.
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Trump regards all that as a sucker’s game.
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Europeans were willfully deaf to copious warnings that Trump’s second term would bear little resemblance to his first, and that he would bulldoze establishment Republicans and traditional foreign-policy guardrails in favor of toadies and shock and awe. In Paris, Brussels and Berlin, officials assessed the approaching storm with weary shrugs, wishful thinking and platitudes. For two years, I heard the same message on auto-repeat: “We can deal with Trump — we’ve done it before.”

Now, dazed, they can barely comprehend what they hear from Washington: rhetoric with echoes of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda.
As for Trump’s demand that Kyiv sign over future proceeds from state-owned mineral rights as recompense for past U.S. aid — half a trillion dollars was his original demand — Europeans are appalled.
“It’s mafia stuff,” an ambassador told me.
That’s a lucid assessment of the tactics deployed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, national security adviser Michael Waltz and New York property mogul Steve Witkoff, who played the roles of bag man, goon and wise guy as they strong-armed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into accepting Trump’s mineral rights shakedown.

Iowa City and Johnson County are exploring the possibility of merging local and county law enforcement into a single facility.

Officials are exploring a site off Riverside Drive near Highway 1 and the Iowa City airport. The city and county are studying the logistics of combining the Johnson County Sheriff's Office and Iowa City Police Department.

The Johnson County Sheriff's Office is currently housed at the Johnson County Jail at 511 S. Capitol Street, a location tight on space and housed in an older building. Iowa City's police department sits within the confines of the Iowa City City Hall at 410 E. Washington Street. Both facilities were built more than four decades ago when the community and its law enforcement units were less robust.

We can cross Norman Dale off the list of potential head coaches to replace Fran at Iowa.

https://apnews.com/article/gene-hac...35c1b956a5c8?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

When asked if he would attend the funeral, former player Jimmy Chitwood replied “I’ll make it.”

What an effort by Even tonight in an 80-78 loss to Oregon.

His stats:

23 minutes

4-4 (100%) FGs
7-9 (78%) FTs

15 Points
2 Blocks
3 Rebounds (1 offensive)
1 Assist (1 turnover)

Alright I compiled a spreadsheet of everyone’s records and rankings and we can guess what the coaches will do with the Big Ten Seeds. Obviously different wrestlers could get entered, but I went with the guy that had the most data in cases where we are unsure. Rankings are as of Tuesday so they don’t reflect any of this weekends matches. Overall record, record against Big Ten opponents, and rankings are listed as additional info in case of close calls. For all the weights it’s School, Wrestler, Big Ten dual record, record against any Big Ten opponent at any point during the season, overall record, rankings (Flo/Intermat)

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ILL, Riley, 1-7, 1-8, 3-13, NR/NR
IND, Moran, 5-3, 9-5, 20-7, 18/20
IOWA, Cruz, 6-2, 6-2, 10-8, 14/16
MD, Garvin, 0-7, 0-7, 4-17, NR/NR
MICH, C Tanefeu, 1-3, 2-4, 7-9, NR/NR
MSU, Weiand, 2-5, 4-8, 10-12, NR/NR
MINN, Flynn, 3-3, 4-3, 12-4, 16/17
NEB, Smith, 6-1, 9-1, 17-4, 6/7
NW, Navarro, 4-3, 8-4, 14-10, 32/NR
OSU, McCrone, 4-4, 5-5, 19-7, 15/21
PSU, Lilledahl, 6-2, 7-2, 15-2, 9/9
PUR, Ramos, 6-0, 6-0, 23-0, 1/1
RUT, Peterson, 6-1, 9-1, 18-3, 8/8
WIS, Rivera, 5-3, 6-3, 16-3, 20/18

I think Cruz gets the 5 seed going Ramos, Peterson, Lilledahl, Smith, Cruz, Moran, Rivera. There’s a chance they flip Smith and Lilledahl and a chance they flip Cruz and Moran, but I think Cruz is the 5 seed.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in nearly 1-1/2 years in January, with Americans facing higher costs for a range of goods and services, reinforcing the Federal Reserve's message that it was in no rush to resume cutting interest rates amid growing uncertainty over the economy.

The hotter-than-expected inflation reported by the Labor Department on Wednesday was likely partly due to businesses raising prices at the start of the year, evident in a record surge in the cost of prescription medication and an increase in motor vehicle insurance.

The report followed a pattern of CPI numbers overshooting expectations every January, which some economists said suggested that the seasonal adjustment factors, the model used by the government to strip out seasonal fluctuations from the data, were not fully accounting for the one-off turn-of-year price hikes.

Nonetheless, they said the so-called residual seasonality was not responsible for all of the broad rise in prices, which offered a cautionary note to President Donald Trump's push for tariffs on imported goods that have been panned by economists as inflationary.

Trump was elected on promises to lower prices for inflation-weary consumers. High inflation could imperil the Trump administration's agenda, including tax cuts, which could overstimulate a healthy economy, and mass deportations of undocumented immigrants that are seen causing labor shortages and raising costs such as wages for businesses.
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The consumer price index jumped 0.5% last month, the biggest gain since August 2023, after rising 0.4% in December, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.

Shelter, which includes hotels and motel rooms, increased 0.4% and accounted for nearly 30% of the rise in the CPI. That followed two straight monthly gains of 0.3%.

Food prices rose 0.4% after increasing 0.3% in December. Grocery store prices surged 0.5%, with the cost of eggs soaring 15.2%, the largest increase since June 2015. That accounted for about two-thirds of the rise in prices at the supermarket.

An avian flu outbreak has caused a shortage of eggs, driving up prices. Egg prices, which fueled much of the voter discontent with inflation, increased 53.0% year-on-year in January.
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A handful of senior F.B.I. employees have been told to resign in a matter of days or be fired, as the Trump administration moves to shake up the agency’s upper ranks, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The steps came as Kash Patel, the president’s nominee to lead the agency, sought to assure lawmakers during a contentious, hourslong Senate confirmation hearing that he would not begin a campaign of retribution or look backward by pursuing perceived rivals. It is unclear whether he was informed of the decisions, which were disclosed on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel matters.

The employees given the apparent ultimatum had been promoted under Christopher A. Wray, who stepped down as F.B.I. director this month.
In an email to colleagues, one of the senior agents said he had learned he would be dismissed “from the rolls of the F.B.I.” as soon as Monday morning.
“I was given no rationale for this decision, which, as you might imagine, has come as a shock,” he wrote.
Senior F.B.I. agents had been bracing for potentially swift changes under President Trump given Mr. Patel’s past promise to reshape the institution. He has vowed to empty out the F.B.I. headquarters building and turn it into a museum.
The move is remarkable in part because it is happening before a director has been confirmed to take charge of the bureau, and the quick and unexpected nature of the requests has left employees badly shaken.
F.B.I. directors have more latitude than most agency chiefs in whom they place into senior positions, but they typically do so gradually. Until senators vote on Mr. Patel’s nomination, Brian Driscoll is the bureau’s acting director.
The decision by the Trump administration echoes the moves rapidly underway at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors, including top officials who hold significant sway over how the agency makes charging decisions, have been reassigned or fired.
At the F.B.I., some of the senior officials who have been asked to leave are at headquarters while others work in the field. Some have already taken steps to retire and exit the agency, including an agent who worked on the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and another who oversaw an investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents.
A person familiar with the personnel changes said the top agent at the Washington field office, the second-largest in the bureau, was also given an ultimatum on Thursday. He had planned to retire, though intended to stay longer at the bureau to help with the transition. But his plans were cut short.
Still more are worried they will be pushed out of the agency or demoted.
During Mr. Patel’s confirmation hearing, Senator Cory Booker raised the abrupt dismissals of nearly a dozen career prosecutors at the Justice Department who worked on the criminal investigations into Mr. Trump under the special counsel Jack Smith and whether similar moves would extend to the F.B.I.
“Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, F.B.I. agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations?” asked Mr. Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, after reminding Mr. Patel that he was under oath.
Stating that he had not been involved in the decisions at the Justice Department, Mr. Patel replied, “I am not aware of that, Senator.”
CNN earlier reported that FB.I. officials had been demoted or resigned.

Dems rocking on😂
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Now, I said this in another thread a few days ago. I TOTALLY understand the Dems freaking out about Musk auditing USAID. If that had been Soros, I would have lost it!!!

That being said, what they are uncovering is unreal. This is beyond the scale of anything I ever thought they would find. WOW!!!

ORLANDO, Fla. - An 18-year-old Deltona woman was arrested overnight after vandalizing what she thought was her ex-boyfriend's car. However, it ended up being a neighbor's vehicle.



Deputies responded to a vandalism call regarding a young woman who was spray-painting a car. When deputies arrived at scene, they spotted two young women in the area, one of whom had yellow spray paint on her pants.

Deputies made contact with the two women, aged 18 and 16.

When deputies questioned the 18-year-old, they said she admitted that she was upset with an ex-boyfriend and decided to throw eggs and spray-paint his car.


The 18-year-old was charged with criminal mischief, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of alcohol under 21, and driving under the influence. According to the deputies, they also witnessed her driving her vehicle with two open Four Loko's in plain view.

The 16-year-old was charged with possession of marijuana over 20 grams, which deputies found while searching her bag.

Deputies also found an empty bottle of Crown Royal, a scale and a can of yellow spray paint while searching the vehicle.

Oops, wrong car!​

What they're saying:

Unfortunately, the car she vandalized was not owned by her ex-boyfriend…but one of his neighbors. Instead, it was actually Jonathon Edwards’s Infiniti.

"It's crazy too. They chose the perfect color," Edwards told FOX 35's Chancelor Winn. "The perfect color, to pop off of black."

Edwards says he took a razor blade and scraped the paint off the windows so he could see to drive, but his next concern is figuring out how to fix all of the damage.

"Honestly, I do not know," said Edwards. "Right now, everybody's telling me I can get WD-40 some graffiti remover, but obviously I don't want to do that until I go to court."

Body camera video from Volusia County Sheriff’s Office shows the teenage girls being arrested.

"You really need to try hard to try to be sneaky because you are God awful," said the deputy in the video. "You guys spray-painted the wrong damn car."

Deputies said the 16-year-old had over 20 grams of marijuana on her.

"She's definitely involved. I don't know if you saw it, but she's covered in spray paint," said the deputy. "She threw her dope over here."

Now Edwards is left cleaning up the mess.

"You're 18. There's no point to ruin your life this early over a guy," said Edwards. "Makes no sense."

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Scotus, or Scrotum as they should be called, would do everything in their power to delay delay delay when it was Dumpster's neck on the line the last few years. delay the immunity case for months to run out the clock

Now when a District judge takes the Orange's terrible lawyers to the woodshed because the lawyers were inept or lying to delay Scotus jumps in ahead of the Appeals court to give a couple of day stay on important funding held up by the Dumpster admin. It was mainly the Chief Justice who wrote the stay later than 6 pm.

What wast the rush? The lawyers were totally ill prepared to face the judge on Monday or more likely just playing the stupid card.

Just another example of corruption by going out the way to subvert the normal chain of events to help the mouth breather.