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When asked what career fields will have a lot of good-paying jobs to fill after the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Craig Levine’s answer was simple: “All.” “Everything, I mean from the person doing the dirt work to clear up the old highway to...
If you listen to the students, they will tell you they are fed up with adults. More specifically, with parents or other community members making spectacles and sparking controversies at school board meetings. While mask mandates remain contentious, the focus has...
School boards handle a variety of issues from approving milk contracts to voting on building projects, but opposition to mask mandates and diversity standards seemed to be the biggest talking points in many Iowa races, and Ankeny and Waukee were no exception. Ankeny’s...
United Auto Workers (UAW) members rejected a second six-year contract from John Deere on Tuesday, meaning they will remain on strike. More than 10,000 UAW members—a bulk of whom are in Iowa—have been on strike since Oct. 14 in a showdown with the multinational...
Ross Wilburn knows he has two targets on his back at all times: He’s a high-profile public official and he’s Black. Wilburn, a state representative and chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, is used to being on the receiving end of racist remarks; however, three...
MidAmerican Energy Co. announced last week that heating prices going into the cold, Iowa winter will be significantly increased—likely by 46 to 96%. The Des Moines-based utility has 774,000 natural gas customers in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and South Dakota. According...
Water quality has been a top concern for residents of Des Moines in recent years, and the topic was highlighted often at a recent Des Moines City Council candidate forum earlier this week. Ward Three Incumbent Josh Mandelbaum raised the issue with one of the other...
Sen. Chuck Grassley gave a stirring, 25-second explanation of why he was accepting former President Donald Trump's endorsement last night: solely because it would help him politically. The 88-year-old senator briefly took the stage with Trump before a crowd of...
Gov. Kim Reynolds took a trip down to the US-Mexico border Wednesday to accuse President Joe Biden of being responsible for the surge in migration and not doing enough to handle it. Reynolds denied her visit was a political stunt and said Biden needed to take...
Almost 10 years after it was first passed, funding for environmental projects around Polk County will be on the ballot again in November. The new $65 million Polk County Water & Land Legacy bond will continue the work started by the $50 million Water & Land...
A joint guest column from Iowa leaders on the looming infrastructure vote. To the Iowa Congressional Delegation: We write in support of the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act under consideration in Congress. As leading voices for Iowa’s employers,...
I honestly couldn’t tell you the last time I became really emotional in a movie theater before I saw "Storm Lake" on Monday. This is not me pretending I’m some super macho guy who doesn’t ever cry or express his emotions; I just don’t get teary in theaters. However,...
Iowans seeking out emergency care are increasingly showing up at their local hospital only to be met with long waiting lines for open beds or a scramble to find an available ICU unit elsewhere. However, if you look at the state's COVID data dashboard, you might come...
Many of Iowa’s school board races in November are shaping up to be unusually hyper-partisan contests, with far-right candidates challenging incumbents over masking policies and the teaching of American history. In several high-profile cases, they're being publicly...
The road to justice and equity can be long and full of hardships; however, for Kameron Middlebrooks, that road became his passion and purpose in life. Kameron is the 3rd Vice President for the Des Moines Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of...
Across Iowa, schools are seeing and reporting rising cases of COVID-19 among their populations. How—and whether—schools notify parents about positive cases is left up to school districts to decide. So far, many are providing those notifications, but most are only...
Whitewater kayaking is growing increasingly popular in Iowa as parks dedicated to the recreational activity have started to sprout up. Chuck Ungs, a Linn County conservation education specialist, said the whitewater park in Manchester has been helpful for him during...
Doug Jensen is going back to jail due in part to Mike Lindell after he violated his pre-trial release conditions to watch the pillow entrepreneur spout conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. The Des Moines man, who stormed the US Capitol Building on...
Iowa has been at odds with the federal government about COVID-19 mitigation and Monday that battle ratcheted up again. The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into Iowa’s ban on mask mandates. At issue is whether the ban...
Desperate for more protection from COVID and its Delta variant, some Iowa parents are enrolling their children in vaccine trials in the hopes they’ll be vaccinated as soon as possible. And they’re relieved they did it. “It feels great,” said Leng Vong Reiff of Clive,...
A member of President Joe Biden's cabinet joined US Rep. Cindy Axne for a Thursday roundtable at the Southside Senior Center in Des Moines to explain how the Build Back Better Act will improve the lives of older Iowans. Specifically, Axne and US Health and Human...
A guest column written by a budding science teacher and published by The Des Moines Register titled "COVID-19 is not a concern for young people” quickly drew ire on social media after going online on Wednesday. Colin Coulter, who wrote the piece, earned an...
Ahmed Agyeman is living his American Dream and works to help others achieve theirs. In June, the Ghana native was chosen to lead the Evelyn K. Davis Center for Working Families at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) Urban Campus where he continues to do what he...
When asked about signing legislation that prevented schools from instituting mask mandates, Gov. Kim Reynolds said she was acting on the concerns of Iowa parents. “We had kids being isolated because they couldn’t wear a mask,” Reynolds told WHO 13’s Dave Price in an...
Iowa’s most infamous Capitol insurrectionist may go back to jail because of Mike Lindell. According to federal court documents, Doug Jensen of Des Moines violated his home-monitoring release, a condition of which prohibits the use of the internet, so he could stream...
President Joe Biden and his administration are stepping in to correct inaction from Republican governors such as Iowa's Kim Reynolds as the Delta variant spreads and presents a larger threat. Wednesday, Biden directed US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to find out...
Vanessa Marcano-Kelly of Des Moines played a key role during the pandemic as one of the Spanish interpreters for Gov. Kim Reynolds’ daily news conferences, making sure Spanish-speaking Iowans stayed informed on the public health situation. Fluent in English, Spanish,...
Although she won't be able to see it on Twitter for another day, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Iowa State Fair-goers will be greeted this week by a billboard tying the congresswoman to two of Iowa's own Republican members of the US House. Democrats hope Iowans...
Alli Theulen and Beth LeValley are dying for people to give their Iowa-centric true-crime podcast a listen. The Hawkeye State natives and marketing professionals are hosts and creators of “DIEOWA.” The show’s tagline tells you everything you need to know about it: “99...
Saying they are "are no longer the silent majority," Iowa parents and educators rallied in front of the Statehouse to speak out against Gov. Kim Reynolds' ban on school mask requirements. About 150 in all gathered outside in the morning heat to urge Reynolds to...
