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WATCH: Individual factors don’t fully explain Iowa’s cancer crisis
Several of Shannon Huey’s family members have had cancer, many at young ages. Though genetics and personal choices can play a role in cancer risk, she thinks her family’s long list of diagnoses means there’s more to the story.
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WATCH: How are you caring for Iowa’s environment?
Over the last few weeks, our team has been drawing connections between pesticide usage, nitrate-contaminated water, a severe lack of regulations, and our state’s cancer crisis. The reaction may be to freeze or flight, but the one that will make things better is fight. How are you fighting for Iowa’s environment? How can we build…
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WATCH: Big Ag corruption is ruining Iowans’ health
Corporations have plenty of strategies for manipulating government regulations, but how does it impact the governed? On the latest episode of Cornhole Champions, investigative journalist Carey Gillam answers your question on how Big Ag is casting Iowans’ health aside to make a profit. Watch here: https://youtu.be/fovhopStD0c?si=E3tOIxZeh_CeCsmU
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WATCH: Trump float booed at Iowa City homecoming parade
Parade attendees expressed their frustration amid immigration crack downs in Iowa.
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WATCH: Des Moines students walk out after superintendent’s immigration arrest
Hundreds of students in Iowa’s largest school district walked out of class to protest Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts’ immigration arrest last week.
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WATCH: What policy could lower Iowa’s high cancer rates?
It’s true that personal health and habits drive up our risk of cancer, but they do not tell the full story. To take on Iowa’s cancer crisis, the government will need to take action.
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WATCH: Iowa’s $400,000 scandal: Research on ag pollution buried (w/ Carey Gillam) – Cornhole Champions #41
Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the nation, and it’s getting worse. A million-dollar study confirmed what many suspected: agricultural pollution is poisoning our water and making Iowans sick. However, after scientists completed their research, the $400,000 set aside to tell Iowans about it simply disappeared. On this episode of Cornhole Champions, Zachary Oren…
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This retired Iowa farmer wasn’t shocked by his cancer diagnosis
Cancer is a norm in Iowa, but it doesn’t have to be.
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WATCH: Ashley Hinson offers loyalty to the GOP, not Iowans
Sooo… is it Hinson for Iowa or Hinson for Trump?
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WATCH: Family of Iowa City man abducted by ICE speaks out
Escucha Mi Voz held a press conference Friday where Laura Castro, Jorge González’s partner, spoke out about her partner’s ICE abduction. She said González always complied with ICE while he was going through the legal immigration process, and even wore an ankle monitor provided by the agency.
