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Shekinah Hollingsworth sat crying in her Ford Fiesta outside Cedar Rapids’ Coe College last October. The Iowa Trump Victory field organizer had just left the school, where she was meeting with a student on behalf of President Trump’s reelection campaign in the state...
Shekinah Hollingsworth sat crying in her Ford Fiesta outside Cedar Rapids’ Coe College last October. The Iowa Trump Victory field organizer had just left the school, where she was meeting with a student on behalf of President Trump’s reelection campaign in the state...
Sen. Joni Ernst said on Monday during an hour-long debate for the U.S. Senate race that she did not think President Donald Trump’s newest Supreme Court nominee would overturn abortion rights. The Republican’s proclamation that the reversal of Roe v. Wade is unlikely...
Recently released state guidance warns school and local public health officials of unlawfully sharing COVID-19 positives publicly, raising concerns among Iowa's teacher union, an independent data tracker and educators across the state about school districts’...
Since Sept. 1, Marion County, Iowa has seen its first three COVID-19 fatalities. County Public Health officials said during a recent press conference that two of those deaths were of people over 80-years-old with pre-existing conditions. But the other was Melinda...
Since Sept. 1, Marion County, Iowa has seen its first three COVID-19 fatalities. County Public Health officials said during a recent press conference that two of those deaths were of people over 80-years-old with pre-existing conditions. But the other was Melinda...
The Des Moines Police Department saw a significant uptick in their use of force from 2015 to 2019, according to an analysis released by the city. The overall use of force employed by DMPD more than doubled from 2015 to 2019, with a significant jump occurring between...
Student absenteeism, a metric Gov. Kim Reynolds previously presented as a necessary requirement for Iowa school districts to request permission to move to learning online amid the pandemic, is actually just a guideline. At a Thursday morning press conference, Reynolds...
Student absenteeism, a metric Gov. Kim Reynolds previously presented as a necessary requirement for Iowa school districts to request permission to move to learning online amid the pandemic, is actually just a guideline. At a Thursday morning press conference, Reynolds...
Student absenteeism, a metric Gov. Kim Reynolds previously presented as a necessary requirement for Iowa school districts to request permission to move to learning online amid the pandemic, is actually just a guideline. At a Thursday morning press conference, Reynolds...
In Iowa, some school districts are playing a game of musical chairs in order to skirt mandatory quarantining for students exposed to COVID-19, a method health experts warn may only put students at greater risk for infection. Since early September, Waukee and Woodbury...
A recent Iowa Department of Education change to K-12 absentee standards would make the meeting threshold for virtual learning during threats of COVID-19 even more difficult for school districts. Contradicting previous guidance from the state, deputy Iowa state...
It was easy to forget Pottawattamie County’s disproportionately high COVID-19 rates as about 1,500 largely mask-less motorcyclists in July danced and drank across four closed-off downtown Council Bluffs blocks at the first ‘Bikes on the 100 Block’ event of the summer....
It was easy to forget Pottawattamie County’s disproportionately high COVID-19 rates as about 1,500 largely mask-less motorcyclists in July danced and drank across four closed-off downtown Council Bluffs blocks at the first ‘Bikes on the 100 Block’ event of the summer....
Illinois resident James, 18, made his decision on which college to attend in March, back near the outset of the pandemic in the U.S. The northwest suburban Chicago teenager chose Miami University in Oxford, Ohio — a school that has now pushed back in-person class...
Illinois resident James, 18, made his decision on which college to attend in March, back near the outset of the pandemic in the U.S. The northwest suburban Chicago teenager chose Miami University in Oxford, Ohio — a school that has now pushed back in-person class...
Eighteen schools and at least 175 students and staff in Iowa stayed home from school this week due to COVID-19 infections. As COVID-19 spikes across the state, in-person resumption of school for most Iowa districts began this week, resulting in over 48 infections and...
After a flow chart released in late July by the Iowa Department of Education implied that asymptomatic educators could return to school after a positive COVID-19 test, social media buzzed with growing concern from parents and teachers ahead of the upcoming in-person...
About a week after the Iowa Department of Public Health admitted and attempted to fix a large scale glitch in their COVID-19 positivity data, independent data trackers and school officials are left weary of the validity of current state data during a consequential...
About a week after the Iowa Department of Public Health admitted and attempted to fix a large scale glitch in their COVID-19 positivity data, independent data trackers and school officials are left weary of the validity of current state data during a consequential...
A student employee contracted at the University of Iowa Hospital had been working since June in a neglected makeshift-office filled with garbage, shared, dirty PPE and a lack of sanitizer amid growing concern of the University’s lack of preparedness during threats of...
When news that a major storm was headed toward eastern Iowa last Monday, Palo farmer Gary Owens was tending to his calf-cow operation in a pasture. He received a call from his wife, Vicki, that 90-mile per hour winds were quickly approaching, so he got on his open...
Nduwimana Kanumba's entrance into the world was rough. At five days old, a derecho tore through his family's Cedar Rapids apartment, ripping off their roof and bringing debris crashing down onto his crib. His mother suffered a gash on her shoulder during the storm...
Most Iowa schools will require students and teachers to wear facial coverings at least partially as students head back to school this fall, finds a Des Moines-based education organizer who compiled a list of Iowa schools and districts and their face mask requirements....
Everyone in town warned those who hadn't seen it yet that the level of destruction in Cedar Rapids was "unimaginable." That was somehow understating it. Volunteers and relief groups poured into Iowa's second-largest city this weekend to assist with cleanup and...
State-reported COVID-19 positivity rates are routinely lower than media or individual data collector’s counts, leaving some confused by Iowa’s numbers—important benchmarks used to determine if a school district can switch to online learning during periods of the...
House District 16 candidate Jen Pellant is vying to serve her home city of Council Bluffs because she thinks the Iowa Legislature “needs more working Iowans representing working Iowans.” Hailing from a family of educators, the Democrat has spent the majority of her...
House District 16 candidate Jen Pellant is vying to serve her home city of Council Bluffs because she thinks the Iowa Legislature “needs more working Iowans representing working Iowans.” Hailing from a family of educators, the Democrat has spent the majority of her...
The debate over school reopening orders continued this morning as Gov. Kim Reynolds indicated her previously stated benchmark that districts can use to request permission for online learning may be overruled by other situations. The governor at her bi-weekly COVID...
The debate over school reopening orders continued this morning as Gov. Kim Reynolds indicated her previously stated benchmark that districts can use to request permission for online learning may be overruled by other situations. The governor at her bi-weekly COVID...
