• How much credit card debt do you have? For nearly a quarter of Des Moines metro residents, it’s more than $10,000.

• Stop watering your lawns so much.

• Don’t go into any abandoned tunnels in Dubuque.

• Are you a bee lover? Join this project to help document them.

• Don’t Say Gay: A judge said Iowa can enforce its anti-LGBTQ education and book ban (for now). “This ruling is a setback, but it is not the end of this fight,” said Nathan Maxwell, senior attorney at Lambda Legal. “We will continue to use every legal tool available to protect these young people. They deserve nothing less.”

• TIL: there’s a men’s walk in Iowa City (and one for women, too).

🐦 These are migrating pelicans on the Iowa River, taken in early March by reader Marc W.

“There are a lot of birds migrating through Iowa (and the midwest in general) these days,” Marc wrote. “I took the attached picture of pelicans taking off from the Iowa River earlier this week. (I liked all the different wing positions.)”

Great photo, Marc!

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