Iowa students will soon go back to schools and universities and the state has no serious plan to keep COVID-19 in check.
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Iowa students will soon go back to schools and universities and the state has no serious plan to keep COVID-19 in check.
The chilling effect this will spawn is obvious. Records custodians will be more reluctant than ever to fulfill records requests in a timely manner.
Iowa’s Duke Slater was a trailblazer for Black athletes at a time when Black Americans faced widespread state-sponsored discrimination
The increase in cases comes after Iowa lowered basically all of the state’s defenses against coronavirus.
Blood centers will have to “perform above projection” to meet the need, representatives say. They have an urgent need for all blood types.
Mayor Brad Hart's response to the situation was way out of line. He's the one with actual power, and he aggressively threatened to wield it against a political foe.
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Trooper deployment is more of a political stunt than a legitimate public safety mission
They were legally brought to the country as children. Under current law, they’re forced to leave when they age out of the system.
It’s puzzling that the state stopped reporting daily data on new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Instead, the data will be reported weekly.
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