Posted August 22, 2024in Morain
Republicans, who control the Iowa House, the Iowa Senate, and the Iowa governorship, make no secret of their intent to entirely eliminate the state’s income tax. It probably won’t happen this coming year or the next, but the plan is now on a glide path. If the Iowa GOP remains
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa – State Treasurer Roby Smith is celebrating another outstanding year of finding Iowans’ missing money at the Iowa State Fair. “This year marks another success at the fair as we were able to reunite thousands of Iowans with their missing money,” said Smith. “Fairgoers had ‘Fair Fever’
Read More →41 elementary schools that were awarded grants to expand summer reading programs will be some of the first to use the reading tutor DES MOINES — The Iowa Department of Education today announced it has made a $3 million investment to provide Iowa elementary schools with an intelligent, personalized reading
Read More →The Urbandale Fire Department has achieved Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI), joining the ranks of only seven fire departments in the state of Iowa to earn this recognition. Urbandale now stands alongside Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Dubuque, Iowa City, Sioux City, and West Des Moines
Read More →2024 Iowa State Fair shuttle sets a new ridership record. The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) provided 3,504,072 rides across all transit services in Fiscal Year 2024 (July 2023 – June 2024), an increase of nearly 9% from the previous year. Ridership grew on several DART services last
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Posted August 20, 2024in The Culture Buzz
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz The Culture Buzz Archive Library –
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa (Aug. 19, 2024) — Sixteen Iowa State Fair vendors have donated 6,000 pounds of surplus food to Food Bank of Iowa at the close of this year’s fair. (That’s half of last year’s 12,000 pounds, but not surprising given the fair attracted an all-time record number of
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Posted August 19, 2024in Stray Thoughts
Here we go again. Don’t be surprised if there is a hard-fought campaign between now and the November election over a guy named David May. You may not recognize his name. But you will in the weeks to come. May is the newest member of the Iowa Supreme Court. His
Read More →Urbandale, Iowa (August 13, 2024) – The Urbandale Food Pantry (UFP) will host its 5th Annual Pedal for the Pantry Bike Ride, presented by F&G, on Sunday, August 25, 9:00 a.m., at Des Moines Water Works Park, 2201 George Flagg Pkwy, Des Moines. New for this year, all routes will
Read More →IOWA – Two Des Moines rising seniors, Nanees Akabar from Theodore Roosevelt High School and Frise Mukina from North High School, spent their summers participating in a prestigious paid summer internship program working with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa this summer to help serve youth and families in
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