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Lexi Gause, a first-generation college student from Cedar Rapids, has been chosen for a year-long program that supports students who have been identified as civic leaders.

Twenty behind-the-scenes workers that keep productions at a historic Iowa City theater running smoothly—including this weekend’s Mission Creek Festival—are asking for the public’s help to put pressure on their employer for their first union contract. Englert Theatre production crew members unanimously voted, 13-0, to unionize on Nov. 7 of last year, according to the National…

A Starbucks coffee shop in Iowa City is the first Starbucks in the state to file for union representation. The move occurred just two days before the company’s former CEO was asked to testify before a US Senate committee for union busting. Thirty-one workers at the Burlington and Clinton Starbucks, at 228 South Clinton St.,…