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Andy Beshear, Tom Vilsack join Rob Sand at Des Moines rally
DES MOINES, Iowa — Just hours after President Donald Trump's visit to Iowa, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and former Iowa Gov. and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Rob Sand on stage for a rally in Des Moines. “I've seen the polls, you've seen the polls, they look...
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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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Hot Spring Spas of Iowa and the Twin Cities
Sean Schaben was working the Iowa State Fair when a couple he hadn’t seen in roughly 20 years came looking for him. Schaben sold them a hot tub decades earlier. Now they were celebrating their 30th anniversary and wanted another one — and they wanted to buy it from him.
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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
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Sand tells Ankeny volunteers to focus on voters who have not yet cast ballots
DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand said Monday that voters who wait until Nov. 3 to cast ballots could be the most important group for his campaign. Iowa has seen 25% more early ballots cast so far this year than in 2022.