I always knew this day would come and yet I never prepared for it. After nearly four years at the Muscatine Journal, I am moving on. In about a week I’ll be moving to Bristol, Virginia, to take a job with a group of newspapers there. I’m leaving behind a wonderful, dedicated staff. They are …
A 5-4 Supreme Court majority relieved Hobby Lobby and other private firms of one health care expense in a ruling we’re certain will invite a flood of litigation.
Ironically, it was an email that was not “lost” that plunked Iowa into the circus surrounding Lois Lerner and the Internal Revenue Service.
The next phase of Iowa ethanol production occurred with little fanfare this week. Quad County Processors of Galva, Iowa, made its first batch of cellulosic ethanol distilled from corn fiber, formerly a waste product of the plant’s corn kernel ethanol process.
Whenever we hear about politicians — local or national — forging a compromise, it reminds us of how politicians should conduct business. A lot of great things have been accomplished through compromise.
Summer is here and two of my favorite events will be happening this week. First, there’s the Muscatine Art Center’s Ice Cream Social tomorrow from 1 – 5 p.m. (Full disclosure, I’m the president of the Muscatine Art Center Board of Trustees.) If you’ve never been to this event, it is a lot of…
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Des Moines Register. May 15, 2022.
Three women who were found dead at a senior living facility on Chicago’s North Side amid high heat have been identified. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday that the women who were found dead Saturday were 76-year-old Delores McNeely, 72-year-old Gwendolyn Osborne and 68-year-old Janice Reed. All three women were found unresponsive over a 12-hour span at the James Sneider Apartments. Residents there started complaining of oppressively hot conditions days earlier. Alderwoman Maria Hadden said she believes the lack of air conditioning in the building likely caused the deaths. Hadden says she went to the building Thursday and learned no one had air conditioning.
Jurors also found Michael Thomas Lang guilty of attempted murder for shooting at armored vehicle driver, plus assault on an officer for an earlier struggle with police.
DES MOINES — Iowa schools are not allowed to require students or staff to wear face masks, after a federal appeals court on Monday lifted a temporary injunction on a new state law that prohibits schools from employing the pandemic mitigation strategy.
Judges of the Iowa Court of Appeals say that politics never enter their deliberations despite the judges each having diverse political leanings. The answers came in response to a question from the public on maintaining the credibility of the court and happened during a question and answer se…
Three children were taken to the hospital after the car they were in crashed into the steps of the park maintained by Genesis Medical Center on the northeast corner of East Locust Street and Eastern Avenue.
Body cam footage of a struggle between Michael Lang and a Grundy Center police officer following a chase on April 9, 2021. Lang drove off following the struggle, and a standoff at his home resulted in the death of Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith.
DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds does not expect any abortion-related legislation to be passed during the current legislative session, which is nearly at its end.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Franken’s second campaign ad is on television.
It's the latest legal fight affecting the state’s 2-year-old recreational pot industry.
Experts anticipate that more than half the states in the nation — including every state surrounding Illinois — would ban or significantly chip away at the right to terminate a pregnancy.