Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is among a bipartisan group of lawmakers airing concerns about the delivery of absentee ballots for this year’s election. Hinson and other members of a House subcommittee quizzed the head of the U.S. Postal Service during a hearing late last week. “Americans need to be able to trust you and that […] View Full Story
More than a dozen American Red Cross volunteers from Iowa are now on duty in several southern states that saw destruction from the powerful winds, heavy rain and flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. Josh Murray, spokesman for the agency’s Nebraska-Iowa region, says they’ve dispatched 15 people to a list of sites were they’re needed the […] View Full Story
Class 5A 1. Dowling Catholic (4-1), LW #1 vs #6 Centennial 2. WDM Valley (4-1), LW #2 @ Waukee Northwest 3. Bettendorf (5-0), LW #3 vs Cedar Rapids Kennedy 4. Pleasant Valley (4-1), LW #5 @ Cedar Falls 5. Southeast Polk (3-2), LW #6 @ #9 Johnston 6. Ankeny Centennial (4-1), LW #7 @ #1 […] View Full Story
Governor Kim Reynolds spent about a third of the month of September on a trade mission in India. Reynolds says the groundwork for her meetings was laid decades ago by the Iowa native who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his research that improved wheat and rice yields. “It really was an opportunity to […] View Full Story
The massive hurricane that blew into Florida and the southern U.S. won’t be felt directly in Iowa, but it will have an indirect impact. Iowa DNR hydrologist Tim Hall says the forecast shows the weather system will keep things dry here. “Because of the hurricane in the southeast, virtually the entire United States, from the […] View Full Story
A Democratic member of the U.S. House Ag Committee says she’s disappointed farm bill negotiations are being pushed to the lame duck session of Congress. Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13th) tells Brownfield… “I know that was a bipartisan agreement to punt this until after the election.” She says, “The farmers in my district, the working families […] The post Farm bill discussion moves to lame duck session appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
