Politics
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How To Decipher DeSantis’ Very-Online Campaign Message
When you sit down at the kitchen table to discuss life’s biggest challenges with a family member, is your top concern Central Bank currency or gain-of-function research? If so, you may be Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ target audience for his presidential campaign in the Iowa Caucus. If not… well, large parts of his initial pitch…
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Here’s How the Biden Administration Has Tackled The Mental Health Crisis
May was Mental Health Awareness Month, and for the past few weeks, the Biden administration has announced a series of efforts to address the nation’s growing mental health crisis. Those come on top of the administration’s legislative achievements on mental health, including the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which represented the largest-ever national investment in mental…
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What We Know About The Davenport Building Collapse
Davenport, Iowa, is in the national spotlight after a building partially collapsed in the heart of its downtown over the weekend. Here’s what we know: What happened? A little before 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 28, Davenport first responders answered a call about a collapsed building at 324 Main Street. The six-story apartment building has…
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Buttigieg Visits Eastern Iowa Airport, Touts Expansion
As union construction workers practiced their trade in the background, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined Iowa officials Thursday to celebrate the progress of a $20 million update to the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. The project was made possible by funding from the Biden Administration’s infrastructure law. “The bipartisan infrastructure package gave us…
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Sheldon and Sibley To Get Better Access to Water Due to Biden’s Infrastructure Law
The cities of Sheldon and Sibley will finally get connected to the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System, which will allow the two communities to have better access to clean water for less money. Lewis & Clark is a water system that, once completed, will service 20 member cities and rural water systems throughout southeast…
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Hampton Residents Want Answers On Why Principal Wasn’t Hired
When it was time to speak during Monday’s Hampton-Dumont School Board meeting, high school sophomore Isaac Vosburg delivered a clear message to district leaders: You let us down. Flanked by four other Hampton-Dumont High School students at the podium, Isaac told Hampton-Dumont officials how disappointed he was in their decision to rescind an elementary school…
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Post-Roe Abortion Bans Have Led to Devastating Outcomes for Women, Study Finds
Women and girls across the United States have suffered devastating experiences over the past year when seeking abortions and routine reproductive health care as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June. A new study from the University of California San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH),…
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Did Being Called ‘Woke’ Cost This Iowa Teacher A Principal Job?
In April, a rural Iowa school district was set to hire Leslie Pralle Osborn as the new principal of its two elementary schools. That was until a local resident, who never met Osborn, started a Facebook campaign against her. His reason? He thought Osborn would bring a “woke agenda” to the community. On April 23,…
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5 New Iowa Laws You Should Pay Attention To
The 2023 Iowa Legislative wrapped up in early May, but the ramifications of what one Democratic lawmaker called “the most harmful and destructive” session ever will be felt for a while. The opening days of the session were all about rushing through Gov. Kim Reynolds’ taxpayer-funded private school tuition voucher plan, which predictably led to private…
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Republicans’ Potential Repeal of Clean Energy Law Threatens Jobs, Communities, and Climate
Tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in investments in clean energy could be at risk, due to a Republican effort to repeal portions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the landmark piece of legislation that President Biden signed into law in Aug. 2022. The law established an array of clean…
