Good morning, Iowa City.

Flags will be flown at half-staff today from sunrise to sunset to honor nearly 3000 victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, including eight with Iowa connections.

ITC employees are taking helicopter patrols this week from the Iowa City airport to check trees are not too near power lines while surveying communities between Hills and North Liberty (helping prevent outages).

The University of Iowa enrolled 5,266 first-year students this fall, with more than half from Iowa from nearly 32,000 applications.

The incoming class, one of the highest achieving in history with an average GPA of 3.87, includes students from 94 counties, 43 states, and 30 countries.

Clean energy advocates urge the Iowa Utilities Commission and lawmakers to review Alliant Energy’s plans for natural gas peaker plants and secret data center rate deals that may shift extra costs to customers.

They warn that if data center demands fall short, households + local businesses could face higher bills.

UI Health Care scrapped its plan for a new Patient Care Tower and will focus on expanding existing facilities on campus by upgrading infrastructure at both the University and Downtown locations to add 100 patient beds and serve 23,000 patients sooner than projected.

Iowa City resident Annie Potter shared her personal experience with postpartum psychosis from the 1990s on TV9 as she followed news of the Lindsay Clancy trial, which declared a mistrial this week, and she stressed the need for early mental health support.

The Hawkeye Marching Band will honor Derek Phillips at Saturday's game by leaving the H1 squad leader position empty — holding a moment of silence before kickoff, performing a halftime drill that spells his name on the field, and wearing black ribbons in his memory.