GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN (January 21, 2025) — A recent Bellwether report explores how much public financing charter schools receive and whether they are funded fairly compared to traditional public schools, specifically in the District of Columbia. After finding disparities, it offers a series of recommendations to reduce those disparities, but upon review, these findings and recommendations are not well-supported. 

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (January 21, 2025) — Nine doctor of osteopathic medicine students from Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences represented the university at the American Medical Association Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates 2024 in Orlando, Florida, in November 2024. The AMA represents physicians with a unified voice in courts and legislative bodies across the nation, advocating for patient care and training the health-care leaders of tomorrow.

Pictured from left are Blackhawk Bank and Trust President Chris Lemon ('80), Senior Vice President Scott Beeler ('98), Vice President Angie Peterson Bigham ('03), and Director of Marketing Ashely Owens Horberg ('12)

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 21, 2025) — The Iowa Court of Appeals has reselected Judge Mary Tabor, Des Moines, as chief judge. At the first meeting in each odd-numbered year, the judges of the court of appeals by majority vote designate one judge as chief judge, to serve for a two-year term. Chief Judge Tabor has served on the court of appeals since 2010 and was first elected chief judge in 2024 when Chief Judge Thomas Bower retired.