Another group of Iowa business leaders has used the Iowa capitol as the backdrop to send a message that immigrants are needed in Iowa. The “Iowa Compact on Immigration” was unveiled today, part of a national effort to prod congress to fix the system providing guest worker visas and speed up the citizenship process for […]Powered by WPeMatico
Cedar Rapids police say a shooting that left a man wounded last week is now a homicide case. Officers say 20-year-old Tenacious Harris died Sunday morning at a Cedar Rapids hospital. Harris was found suffering from a gunshot wound last Tuesday night in a car near Franklin Middle School. Investigators recovered shell casings in an […]Powered by WPeMatico
The trip to a northeast Iowa hospital was anything but routine for a pregnant woman who went into labor early Sunday morning. With 50 mile-per-hour winds creating zero visibility around 3 AM Sunday, Fairbank firefighters were called out to rescue an ambulance, which got stuck in a snow drift near the Wapsipinicon River. According to […]Powered by WPeMatico
The mounting number of snow days for the state’s school districts has some asking if technology could be used to make up the time. Iowa Department of Education director Ryan Wise says that question has come up a lot lately. “The way code is currently written, it does not allow e-learning days to count toward […]Powered by WPeMatico
Sunday was the 50th anniversary of an historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on student free speech rights that was sparked by three students from Iowa. In December,1965 Mary Beth and John Tinker, along with a friend, wore black armbands to school in Des Moines to protest the Vietnam War. John Tinker said black armbands have […]Powered by WPeMatico
A blizzard and treacherous travel conditions struck much of the state this weekend. Snow plows were pulled from areas of northern Iowa Saturday night. The Iowa DOT closed Interstate-35 from the Ames exit all the way to the Minnesota border on Sunday morning. Rescue crews struggled to reach stranded motorists. Wright County Emergency Management director […]Powered by WPeMatico
Drake erased a 13 point deficit but came up short at Illinois State 67-60 as the Bulldogs fall to 10-6 in Missouri Valley play. The Bulldogs misfired on a couple of key free throws down the stretch as they had their four game winning streak snapped. “We missed some opportunities with some point blank layups […]Powered by WPeMatico
California Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris says Midwesterners who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 want the 2020 presidential race to be a “mature conversation” about addressing the “hard” economic realities they’re confronting. “People want to talk about real issues and they don’t want to talk about it through the lens of political talk […]Powered by WPeMatico
A heart ailment that kills hundreds of Iowans every year isn’t one most people know about. When people hear about heart disease, it usually brings to mind heart attacks or congestive heart disease, but not heart valve disease. Sue Peschin, president and CEO of the Alliance for Aging Research, says there’s very little public awareness […]Powered by WPeMatico
