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Friday, June 14th, 2024
The Board of Regents has raised tuition at Iowa’s three public universities for this fall, after the Legislature gave the schools less funding than they’d asked for. A Cornell College professor stabbed in China earlier this week is back in Iowa. And officials in Dubuque say they’re keeping an eye on a bear that’s been seen in the area this week.
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Thursday, June 13th, 2024
Bird flu has been detected on a third dairy farm in northwest Iowa. The Iowa Board of Regents says it won’t divest its investments in Israel and companies doing business with that country. And a popular northwest Iowa bar will move later this year because of structural problems with its current building.
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
A federal appeals court will now decide the fate of Iowa’s ban on books with sexual content in school libraries. A panel of judges heard arguments in the case yesterday. John Deere will pay more than $1 million to job applicants the Labor Department says were discriminated against. And China says the attack on four Cornell College instructors in that country appears to be an isolated incident.
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
A federal judge says he’ll decide by July 1 whether an Iowa law making “illegal reentry” by immigrants a state crime can be enforced. A federal appeals court in Minnesota hears arguments today in a lawsuit challenging Iowa’s education law that’s led to hundreds of books being pulled from library shelves. And, state officials are monitoring both livestock and people after a couple of outbreaks of avian flu in Iowa dairy herds.
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
Iowa’s “illegal reentry” immigration law has a hearing in federal court this morning. Last night the Catholic bishop of Des Moines led a prayer vigil in opposition to the law. A new report says Iowa’s ranking has dropped a bit when it comes to child well-being. And, the state has another reported case of avian flu in a dairy herd.
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Friday, June 7th, 2024
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson and her Republican colleagues plan to introduce a bill next year they say will enact stricter controls on the southern U.S. border. The Sierra Club says water use by Iowa’s ethanol plants will skyrocket if a carbon capture pipeline is built. And, some parents in Sioux City are upset their school district has cut summer school this year.