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New Iowa State University Beef Education Facility Moves Forward
Iowa State University is moving forward on plans to build a new facility dedicated to cattle production research and education. The Iowa Board of Regents has approved fundraising for the new Iowa State Beef Teaching and Innovation Farm, the university has announced. In operation since 1965, the existing Beef Teaching...
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John Deere to close Ottumwa and Clarion factories, citing changing customer demand
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Filings confirm local number of previously announced UnityPoint layoffs
State filings show the final number of local UnityPoint Health layoffs connected to a previously announced transition of IT and revenue cycle services to a third-party vendor. One employee in Dubuque will be laid off in February, alongside 229 in West Des Moines, according to a notice filed with the state of Iowa.
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The Iowa Thrift Store Where Bargain Hunters Leave With Bags Full and Wallets Barely Touched
About 64,000 pounds of new merchandise arrive at this place every single day. That’s not a typo. It’s roughly the weight of a few loaded school buses, and it all gets dumped into big blue bins for shoppers to dig through. Nothing hangs on racks here. Clothes, shoes,...
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Letter writers take sides in agriculture secretary contest | Letters
Chris Jones would insist on safer water I grew up in Ottumwa and raised a family in Des Moines. As a volunteer water monitor in Polk County, I’ll say this: Iowa has a hard time talking about what’s in our water. This summer, central Iowa had its second mandatory watering ban in two years. The Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers rank in the top 1% nationally for nitrate. The federal limit for nitrate in drinking water was set to protect infants, not to guard against cancer. Yet studies have found a higher risk of some cancers at levels the law allows. Since 2013, the state’s answer has been a voluntary plan with a 45% nitrogen reduction goal. Voluntary hasn’t come close. More: Chris Jones can-do message resonates in cancer-stricken Iowa | Opinion This problem isn’t new. Iowans have known it for decades. But we’ve built a culture where raising it feels taboo, and a politics where leaders protect the status quo because that’s what donors and big industry want. It won’t be fixed overnight. But we’ve waited long enough, and nothing changes until we can be honest about the problem. That’s why I like Chris Jones, who is running for