Black Hawk County has a highly disproportionate number of African Americans in prison. That’s what five community leaders wanted to address last week in a guest column titled, “What Change Looks Like in Waterloo.” The authors of the column—State Rep. Ras Smith;...

Face covering regulation was the main agenda item at today’s Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors meeting, Black Hawk County Board of Health urged the board to take action. Dr. Belinda Creighton-Smith opened the meeting by expressing concerns for children...

More than three months after the COVID-19 outbreak at Tyson’s Waterloo plant, which resulted in over 1,000 employee infections and several deaths, major concerns about employee health and safety persist. From Tyson’s perspective, they are demonstrating that...