Iowa-based researchers have concluded there’s little scientific evidence that sound from wind turbines poses a public health risk. Instead, the authors say reported symptoms of hearing loss or poor sleep are more likely related to people’s attitudes about wind development. The findings by the Iowa Policy Project and the Iowa Environmental Council are based on […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Waterloo man has been identified as the victim of an officer-involved shooting at a U.S. nuclear security site in Nevada, about 70 miles north of Las Vegas. Twenty-seven-year-old Nekiylo Graves was killed during a confrontation with law enforcement officers earlier this week. according to Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly. She released details of the […]Powered by WPeMatico
Ancient, unusual and a tongue-twister — just a few words lawmakers are using to describe a prehistoric weapon that’s made its way onto the pages of proposed legislation at the state capitol. A three-member panel of senators took up a bill this week that would let people use what’s essentially a spear-thrower to hunt deer […]Powered by WPeMatico
Three members of the Iowa House have just voted to advance a plan to automatically restore voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentences. “The first legislative hurdle has (been) passed unanimously,” Representative Bobby Kaufmann said after he and the other two lawmakers signed onto the resolution — and the audience in a state capitol […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst today remembered Sarah Root of Council Bluffs on the third anniversary of her death. “Sarah, who was 21 years old at the time. Was struck and killed on the night of her graduation by an illegal immigrant who was drag racing and driving drunk, three times over the legal limit,” Ernst […]Powered by WPeMatico
The University of Iowa women’s basketball team’s road game with Michigan, originally scheduled for today, has been rescheduled for Friday at 11:00a.m., Iowa time. The game will no longer air on the Big Ten Network. The postponement was due to continuing inclement weather and the University of Michigan remaining closed until early Friday morning. The […]Powered by WPeMatico
Agencies that help Iowa’s homeless populations are making accommodations to help the less fortunate survive this week’s extreme cold. John DeTaeye works for Humility Homes and Services in Davenport and was very concerned about people who might have to walk from that 70-bed shelter to the Kings Harvest Emergency Overflow Shelter several blocks away. “We […]Powered by WPeMatico
The sub-zero temperatures and wind chills have made it tough on firefighters as they got sent out to fight fires Wednesday. Sergeant Bluff fire chief Anthony Gaul says his department had issues after being called out to a fire at the Gelita Plant in the Port Neal industrial area at 2:15 A.M. “We had hydraulic […]Powered by WPeMatico
The University of Iowa women’s basketball team’s game at Michigan, tonight, has been postponed. The postponement is due to continuing inclement weather and the University of Michigan remaining closed until early Friday morning. The game will be rescheduled at a future date. The 13th ranked Hawkeyes are 7-2 in the Big Ten and will take […]Powered by WPeMatico
