by Radio Iowa Contributor | Aug 31, 2017 | Education, News, Top Story
Voters in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck School District are now less than two weeks away from deciding its future. A group of parents gathered enough signatures on a petition to vote to dissolve the district on September 12th. In Reinbeck there are “Vote No”...
by Matt Kelley | Aug 31, 2017 | Health & Medicine, News
A new study finds almost one in every three Iowans is obese, a number that’s bounded from about one in five at the start of the new millennium. John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, says more Iowans need to get serious about their...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 31, 2017 | News, Politics & Government
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is in Iowa today to promote his new book. The “Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution” is aimed at young readers. During a midday interview on Iowa Public Radio, Sanders said his aim with the book is to “bring...
by Todd Kimm | Aug 31, 2017 | Sports
It will be youth against experience at quarterback when the Iowa Hawkeyes open the season at home against Wyoming. It will be the first start for sophomore quarterback Nate Stanley. The native of Wisconsin says he will have more jitters heading into Saturday’s...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 31, 2017 | News, Politics & Government
The state treasurer has delivered a letter to Governor Kim Reynolds, formally asking her to reconsider a short-term borrowing plan to ensure the state can pay all its bills on time. State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald says there’s great uncertainty about state...
