On Tuesday, Jan, 6, 2026, the Iowa City Council will hold its organizational meeting where they will elect the mayor and mayor pro tempore, and assign councilors to a variety of other roles of various power.
The amount of work and focus this biennial decision takes is absolutely ridiculous: opaque, petty and ego-driven.
What if our elected leaders spent this energy and urgency on something that actually mattered?
Watch when later this month they give less attention to advancing a multimillion-dollar budget.