WASHINGTON DC (August 12, 2019) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, will headline a rural health care event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday, August 13. The event will be held at the UnityPoint Health Des Moines, Education and Research Center, Virginia Thompson Auditorium located at 1415 Woodland Ave, Des Moines, IA 50309, 3:30–4:45PM CT.

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 12, 2019) — Expert testimony filed by the Iowa Environmental Council and Environmental Law and Policy Center in the Alliant Energy Rate Case currently before the Iowa Utilities Board highlights solutions that will save customers money while cleaning up Alliant’s generation mix.

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 12, 2019) — Amateur brewers from across the state competed for top honors in the 2019 Iowa State Fair Oenology — Beer competition.

Best of Show honors for Flanders Red were awarded to Aaron Reif of Pleasant Hill. Andre Bajorek of Clive was awarded Best of Show honors for Crab Apple.

Additional results below:

 

Standard Am Lager

1) Jeff Moyer, West Des Moines

2) Aaron Nord, Ankeny

3) Dwight Baker, Ankeny

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (August 12, 2019) — Augustana College student Justin Verlinden of East Moline, Illinois, completed a presitigous research internship at the Baylor College of Medicine. He took part in testing novel brain-imaging methods as part of a larger Alzheimer's Disease research project taking place in the lab.

Verlinden, who is majoring in neuroscience and biology, will be a senior this fall.

PRESS RELEASE (August 12, 2019) — Keep Iowa Beautiful received a $7,500 grant from ITC Midwest to encourage student volunteerism for community service throughout Iowa. The grant will be used to support the Keep Iowa Beautiful (KIB) programming to connect community-service needs with the personal interests and values of students.       

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 12, 2019) — Governor Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of Tamra Roberts as a district court judge in the Seventh Judicial District. 

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 12, 2019) — Over 260 exhibitors showed over 500 hogs at the FFA Market Swine Show during the 2019 Iowa State Fair.

Additional results below:

 

Champion Lightweight Barrow: Nicholas Edwards, Huxley

Reserve Champion Lightweight Barrow: Trey Lettow, Woodward

Champion Medium Weight Barrow: Nicholas Edwards, Huxley

Reserve Champion Medium Weight Barrow: Megan Moore, Knoxville

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 12, 2019) — Sixty-eight FFA members exhibited 420 birds in the FFA Poultry Show judged Thursday at the 2019 Iowa State Fair.

Jennifer Holliday of Nodaway Valley showed the Grand Champion Market Broiler. Noah Oldenburger of Aplington-Parkersburg claimed the Reserve Champion Market Broiler title.

Hunter Britton of Muscatine won the Grand Champion Breeding Birds title while Skyler Windy of Pleasantville claimed the Reserve Champion Breeding Birds.

DES MOINES, IA (08/12/2019) — The Apiary competition brought out the buzz among competitors when it was judged prior to the start of the 2019 Iowa State Fair.

All exhibitor entries were products of the exhibitor's apiary unless otherwise specified. Entries will be on display throughout the Fair, 9AM-9PM in the John Deere Agriculture Building sponsored by Alliant Energy.

Results below:

 

Observation Hive

1) Doyle W Kincy, Urbandale

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 11, 2019) — The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) went to great heights at the Iowa State Fair to call on Senator Joni Ernst to acknowledge that climate change is real and take legislative action to address the crisis contributing to record flooding across the state.

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