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WEB5 days ago · BY: Cami Koons - September 17, 2024. Unofficial numbers from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources show about 1,250 fish were killed as the result of a water main break in Cedar Rapids that discharged chlorinated water into McLoud Run stream. The break occurred Monday morning and drained from …
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WEBThe Iowa Capital Dispatch is a hard-hitting, independent news organization dedicated to connecting Iowans to their state government and its impact on their lives. The Capital Dispatch combines state government coverage with relentless investigative journalism, deep dives into the consequences of policy, political insight, and principled ...
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
WEB6 days ago · Deputy Editor Clark Kauffman has worked during the past 30 years as both an investigative reporter and editorial writer at two of Iowa’s largest newspapers, the Des Moines Register and the Quad-City Times. He has won numerous state and national awards for reporting and editorial writing. His 2004 series on prosecutorial misconduct in Iowa was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for ...
Justice Archives - Iowa Capital Dispatch
WEBBY: Cami Koons - September 10, 2024. A group of Iowa Republican lawmakers plans to ask federal and state courts to rule that the Iowa Utilities Commission acted illegally and unconstitutionally in its approval of a controversial pipeline project. The group of nearly 40 Iowa lawmakers comprising the Republican Legislative Intervenors for Justice ...
Education Archives - Iowa Capital Dispatch
WEB6 days ago · BY: Brooklyn Draisey - September 10, 2024. Two of Iowa’s state universities will not request any additional general education dollars for the next fiscal year, according to Iowa Board of Regents documentation. The University of Northern Iowa will request incremental general university funding of $2.5 million for fiscal year 2026, according to ...
Government + Politics Archives - Iowa Capital Dispatch
WEBBY: Cami Koons - September 11, 2024. Republican lawmakers opposing the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline said the Iowa Utilities Commission’s approval of the project was an attack on “God-given” Fifth Amendment rights. The remarks came from a group of nearly 40 lawmakers who filed a state and a federal lawsuit against the commission for ...
Iowa COVID infections continue to steadily increase
WEBNov 30, 2022 · Iowa’s COVID-19 infection rate increased about 17% in the past week, and infected people receiving inpatient hospital treatment jumped 35%, according to state and federal health data. The state reported a similar increase in the infection rate last week after weeks of roughly steady numbers of infections. The Iowa Department of Health and ...
Ag + Environment Archives - Iowa Capital Dispatch
WEBBY: Cami Koons - September 17, 2024. Unofficial numbers from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources show about 1,250 fish were killed as the result of a water main break in Cedar Rapids that discharged chlorinated water into McLoud Run stream. The break occurred Monday morning and drained from 32nd Street into Iowa’s only urban trout stream.
Iowa COVID infection rate continues slow rise
WEBApr 20, 2022 · There were 1,063 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iowa in the past week — the largest weekly total in more than a month, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health’s update on Wednesday. The number is still only about 20% of the infection rate in January, when the omicron variant surge led to more than 5,000 new confirmed cases each day.
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