DES MOINES, IA (July 11, 2019) — Six Iowa farm families will be recognized as recipients of the 2019 Way We Live Award at the Iowa State Fair. Entry-form nominations included a description of how living on a farm and choosing the farming occupation shaped the nominee's farm family life. These families are examples of farm values derived from hard work and love for farming.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (July 11, 2019) — The Kansas City Regional Office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers the Medicare program, invites you to attend a 2½-day Medicare workshop.

If you are a caseworker, discharge planner, social worker, human resource, benefit specialist, or a trainer of these professions, or any advocate who needs to know about the A to Z’s of the Medicare program, then this workshop is for you.

DES MOINES, IOWA (July 11, 2019) — In the face of increased ICE attacks on immigrant communities and threats from the Trump Administration to escalate raids, Iowans are organizing and building networks of support. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Iowa, a Quaker organization that works for migrant justice, together with immigrants’-rights advocates across the state, are conducting "know your rights" trainings, mobilizing rapid response and support networks, off

In 2008, billionaire asset manager Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers negotiated a very favorable plea bargain in Florida, under which he served a mere 13 months in jail — in his own private wing, with 12 hours of daily "work release" — on a single charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor (the FBI had identified 40 alleged victims of sexual predation on his part).

SCOTT COUNTY (July 9, 2019) — On Thursday, July 11, at 9AM, the Scott County Sheriff's Office will hold a Swearing-In Ceremony in the Sheriff's Office Conference Room on the second floor of the Scott County Courthouse. Brent Kilburg, Alex Gries, Ethan Roling and Hope Hammitt have been hired as the newest deputy sheriffs for Scott County.

“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.” — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

JOHNSTON, IOWA (July 9, 2019) — Coverage of Iowa girls' high school championships continues, as teams from across the state take to the field for the 2019 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Softball Championships. Coverage of each class title game will take place at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge.

DES MOINES, IOWA (July 8, 2019) — "Nothing Compares" to affordable family fun at the Iowa State Fair, August 8-18. Plan ahead and save on discounted admission tickets, family fun packs, ride wristbands, and food coupons.

PALMYRA, VIRGINIA (July 8, 2019) — In a victory for the right to freedom of expression under the First Amendment, especially as it relates to political expression, county officials in one Virginia locality have agreed to temporarily suspend their enforcement of ordinances limiting the display of political signs to a 60-day period preced

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