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The Iowa State Fair may be a good place for conspirators to be in public, to say the quiet part out loud, and hardly get noticed. People are too busy eating food on sticks and taking pictures of the Butter Cow. If you happen to walk by the “Fair-Side Chats,” you may have watched Gov.…

The Iowa nursing home closings that began in 2022 are accelerating now—and they’re hitting small towns and rural communities the hardest. Colonial Manors of Manilla, which closed in July 2021—loss of 34 jobs—was the only Iowa nursing home closure that year reported to Iowa Workforce Development. But that began changing in July 2022, when the…

Republicans in the Iowa Senate are working on a bill that would subvert any federal laws aimed at preventing gun violence, even as the number of shootings and gun deaths in the state are on the rise. The effort, which is being led by Sen. Zach Nunn (R-Bondurant), passed out of a Senate subcommittee on…

The initial estimate for the new Woodbury County Jail has gone up by 40%. If costs keep going up like they are, “we could be the most expensive jail in the United States.”

The moment Patrick Baughman had been waiting for all year was here. He knew he would be the valedictorian for Sioux City’s West High School Class of 2023. He knew he would give a speech. He also knew he wanted to say something important. When that moment arrived on May 27, Patrick was ready. “I…