DES MOINES, IOWA (June 8, 2022) — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller commends the US Department of Education’s actions to cancel $5.8 billion in student-loan balances for students who attended Corinthian Colleges, a defunct for-profit college chain.

IOWA CITY, IOWA (June 7, 2022) — Chosen from thousands of applicants from colleges and universities across the US, Whitney Woepking of Muscatine, Iowa is one of twelve University of Iowa undergraduates were awarded the competitive Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (June 7, 2022) — Philanthropy starts early at the Quad Cities Community Foundation. The Community Foundation’s Teens for Tomorrow (T4T) program gives Quad Cities high-schoolers the opportunity to experience the grantmaking process firsthand, awarding real dollars to local non-profits.

DES MOINES, IOWA (June 7, 2022) — The stronger land prices of late 2021 continued higher through the first half of 2022. After a calm period at the start of the year in which the land market remained steady, sales prices took another jump up as a result of the outbreak of war in Ukraine and ongoing inflation fears. Farmers saw stronger commodity prices and investors wanted a low-risk inflation hedging investment, which together propelled the competition for good cropland.