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  • Report of Chinese Council Bluffs, IA

    03/17/2024 9:26:09 AM PDT · by Mean Daddy · 11 replies
    Facebook | March 16, 2024 | Council Bluffs Scanner
    Please note that it was Union Pacific making the call and they stopped train traffic. This location is a large switching area for UP.
  • Tyson Foods Closes Major Meat Plant as It Transitions to ‘Insect Farming’

    03/14/2024 8:44:20 AM PDT · by Sam77 · 113 replies
    Disswire.com ^ | 14 March 2024 | Bradley Greer
    The world’s leading meat producer, Tyson Foods Inc., announced the closure of its largest pork packing plant in Iowa this week as the company transitions towards insect farming to produce “meat alternatives.” The meat giant also indicated that four additional plants would close by mid-fiscal 2024, just days after announcing the closure of two major chicken plants.
  • Tyson Foods pork plant in Perry, Iowa closing

    03/13/2024 9:11:57 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 44 replies
    KCCI ^ | 3-11-24 | KCCI
    A pork plant and major employer in central Iowa is closing. The Tyson Foods plant in Perry will close permanently on June 28. "After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our Perry, Iowa pork facility. We understand the impact of this decision on our team members and the local community. Taking care of our team members is our top priority and we encourage them to apply for other open roles within the company. We are also working closely with state and local officials to provide additional resources to those who are impacted," a spokesperson said...
  • Iowa House Votes To Cap Pay For Traveling Nurses

    03/03/2024 2:53:49 PM PST · by NobleFree · 33 replies
    KIWA Radio ^ | February 29, 2024 | scottv@kiwaradio.com
    Des Moines, Iowa — The Iowa House has voted to set limits for the pay of temporary nursing staff working in Iowa hospitals and nursing homes. A traveling nurse could be paid no more than 150 percent of the statewide average wage being paid to full-time healthcare staff who provide nursing services. The bill is a priority for House Republicans, who contend temp agencies are reaping too much of the extra money the legislature has provided nursing homes. Representative Timi Brown-Powers, a Democrat from Waterloo, is a therapist at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, She says the bill addresses a...
  • Catlin Clark

    03/03/2024 11:14:10 AM PST · by jimjohn · 54 replies
    Self | jimjohn
    History was made. Enough said.
  • Caitlin Clark Breaks NCAA All-Time Scoring Record

    03/03/2024 3:40:36 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 104 replies
    ABC News ^ | March 3, 2024 | Jade Lawson
    The Iowa star holds the record in both men's and women's Division I basketball.University of Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark has reached another milestone in her college career, breaking the NCAA all-time scoring record, a record untouched for more than 50 years -- until now. Clark broke the all-time scoring record Sunday against Ohio State, hitting 18 points in the game with a technical free throw at the end of the second quarter. The 22-year-old now holds 3,668 points and counting, surpassing "Pistol" Pete Maravich, who scored 3,667 points while playing at Louisiana State University in 1970. Clark broke...
  • Federal Court Dismisses Case Against Governor Who Prohibited Mask Mandates In Schools

    02/28/2024 4:30:52 AM PST · by george76 · 4 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 27, 2024 | John Oyewale
    A federal court dismissed a case Tuesday against Republican Iowa Gov. Kimberly Reynolds’ prohibition of mask mandate in school districts across the state, official documents showed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found “persuasive” the argument that “the general risks associated with COVID-19, even though COVID-19 remains an ever-present concern in society, are not enough to show ‘imminent and substantial’ harm,” court papers showed in part. The court also decided that “because Plaintiffs have only alleged the potential risk of severe illness should they contract COVID-19 at school, the risk of harm is too speculative to satisfy...
  • Trump Scores 6th Straight Primary Win With Triumph Over Nikki Haley In Michigan

    02/27/2024 10:10:01 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 02/27/2024 | Nathan Worcester
    Former President Donald J. Trump has soundly defeated former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in Michigan’s Feb. 27 Republican presidential primary, notching his sixth-straight primary victory as he marches towards the GOP nomination.The Associated Press called the race for Trump right after the last polls closed at 9 p.m. ET.The result is another blow to Ms. Haley, coming days after a double-digit defeat in her home state of South Carolina. Despite this, she has vowed to stay on through Super Tuesday on March 5, when numerous delegate-heavy states will hold their primaries.Ms. Haley campaigned in Michigan on Sunday and Monday...
  • Trump wins SC primary moments after polls close, deals Haley crushing blow in her own state: ‘Bigger win than we expected’

    02/24/2024 6:37:49 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 115 replies
    New York Post ^ | 24 Feb, 2024 | Diana Glebova
    COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Donald Trump defeated GOP rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, securing yet another win for the former president. The race was called almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m., with Trump securing all 29 winner-take-all state delegates. With some 65 percent of the vote in, Trump was up by roughly 20 points. “This was a little sooner than we anticipated. And even a bigger win than we anticipated,” Trump said to applause on stage at the state fairgrounds in Columbia moments after the victory. “I have never seen the Republican...
  • Nikki Haley Wastes $76.4M in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa Defeats to Donald Trump

    02/24/2024 5:27:23 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 81 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/24/2024 | Wendell Husebo
    Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wasted $76.4 million in losing efforts to defeat former President Donald Trump in the first three GOP primary contests: Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The massive amount of money spent in the first three primaries of the 2024 cycle shows how strong Trump’s grassroots support is around the nation. The money spent also reveals the number of resources the Republican Party did not spend on defeating President Joe Biden. Leading up to Saturday’s election. Haley claimed she will not drop out of the race until Super Tuesday, which is March 5.
  • Trump’s Iowa win helps fuel big surge in stock of SPAC buying Truth Social (DWAC is UP 25% today so far)

    01/16/2024 12:10:22 PM PST · by Eccl 10:2 · 6 replies
    MarketWatch ^ | 01/16/24 | Tomi Kilgore
    Shares of the special-purpose acquisition company that has agreed to buy Donald Trump’s media company shot up to a six-month high in active trading Tuesday, as the former president cleared his first hurdle to becoming the 2024 Republican nominee. Digital World Acquisition Co.’s stock DWAC, +23.56% rallied 18.5% in afternoon trading. It was headed for the biggest one-day gain since it soared 50.3% on July 21, 2023, after the SPAC settled fraud charges. Trading volume ballooned to 4.1 million shares, compared with the full-day average over the past 30 days of about 161,250 shares.
  • Trans Activists Stage Another Insurrection

    02/13/2024 12:51:33 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | Feb 13, 2024 | Matt Walsh
    To say it’s been an extremely rough 12 months for trans activists in the state of Iowa would be an understatement. Last March, the governor of Iowa signed legislation banning doctors from giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. The law also outlawed the genital mutilation of children. There was nothing particularly unusual about this bill. It resembled legislation that had already been passed in Tennessee, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, and several other states. But trans activists in Iowa thought of a somewhat unique way to protest the ban. For reasons that still aren’t entirely clear,...
  • Whitlock: Women’s College Basketball Phenom Caitlin Clark Comes Under Attack for Not Being Black Lesbian?

    02/09/2024 9:40:57 PM PST · by MNDude · 34 replies
    University of Iowa women’s basketball sensation, Caitlin Clark, will break the women’s all-time scoring record sometime in the coming week and maybe on Sunday? But not everyone is excited for her. Caitlin Clark went to Dowling High School in West Des Moines and then was recruited by the University of Iowa. In less than four years she has broken several all-time records in women’s basketball. As ESPN reported Clark is averaging 32.2 points per game this season and is 39 points shy of breaking the record. For her career, Clark has: 51 30-point games (including 14 this season), the most...
  • NBC low tactics attacking LibsOfTikTok founder

    02/07/2024 8:54:15 PM PST · by Milagros · 19 replies
    Per Chaya tweet ^ | 7 February 2024
    Detectives in Iowa are blaming me for b*mb threats. NBC is trying to get law enforcement to say I’m connected so that I can be investigated. That’s their goal. They want me in prison for exposing the grooming and sexualization of your kids. https://t.co/lCWVFgbvMx pic.twitter.com/TFxGwuq0a5— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) February 7, 2024
  • Iowa school to have armed staff members, including teachers

    01/26/2024 3:30:18 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 19 replies
    ABC30 Action News ^ | January 24, 2024 | CNN Staff
    SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- The topic of arming teachers in schools comes up periodically after shootings take place. Now, one school in Iowa is turning that talk into action and arming staff members, KTIV reported. "About 18 months ago, we just started looking at options. And obviously, to take the step to have armed staff in our school is a big one. And it requires a lot of conversation with a lot of stakeholders," said Siouxland Christian School Supt. Lindsay Laurich. It's a big step in school security. "My ultimate responsibility here is to protect this building to make sure...
  • Ron DeSantis Says 1 Thing Is To Blame For His Humiliating Campaign Defeat Spoiler: It's not Ron DeSantis.

    01/24/2024 9:20:27 AM PST · by backpacker_c · 78 replies
    huffpo ^ | Jan 23, 2024 | Sebastian Murdock
    In his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race, DeSantis told Blaze TV’s Steve Deace that the blame is on Iowa caucusgoers who rallied behind front-runner Donald Trump even though many didn’t like him. “They did not want to see Trump nominated again, but they had basically been told that it was inevitable, that it was over,” DeSantis told Deace on Tuesday. DeSantis, who lost to Trump in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month, added that those voters were “checked out” and had “just totally dropped out of the process.” The Florida governor told Deace he’d consider running...
  • Trump says Haley had a ‘very bad night

    01/23/2024 8:55:29 PM PST · by lightman · 77 replies
    UPI ^ | 23 January A.D. 2024 | JILL COLVIN
    NASHUA, N.H. — Trump is lacing into Haley as he celebrates his win in the New Hampshire primary. Unlike his election night speech in Iowa, where he called for unity, Trump is making clear his fury that Haley is not dropping out after finishing second. “This is not your typical victory speech, but let’s not have someone take a victory when she had a very bad night,” Trump said, complaining that Haley came in third in Iowa “and she’s still hanging around.” “I don’t get too angry. I get even,” he told a crowd of supporters packed into a steamy...
  • Nikki Haley as Democrat Presidential candidate

    01/23/2024 8:02:58 PM PST · by JosephW · 38 replies
    JosephW | 24 January 2024 | JosephW
    Just finished watching the spectacular results of the New Hampshire primary when I was struck with a possibility of what is happening with birdbrain. Most of her votes came from crossover democrats. What if she is just tying up republican money in the primaries? Every open primary allows for significant crossover voting and justifies her staying in. How much republican money is therefore wasted. It's already obvious she can't win. Staying in just hurts the party. Here's the conspiracy part. We've all been trying to guess who will replace slo joe at the convention. What if it's her. She can...
  • ‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Says She’s ‘Turned On’ By Joe Biden’s Angry Outbursts

    07/12/2023 7:07:57 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/12/2023 | DAVID NG
    The revelation that President Joe Biden frequently takes his anger out on his staff through rage-filled, profane outbursts represents the latest blow to the sweet grandpa image that the media sold to gullible voters in 2020. But Biden’s verbally abusive behavior has a fan in his most loyal media cheerleader — The View‘s Joy Behar, who said on Tuesday’s show that she is “turned on” by his anger. Watch below: Joy Behar says she’s “turned on” by Biden’s anger pic.twitter.com/yrrPkvJNjk — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 11, 2023 “I like it,” Behar said. “He’s such a mild-mannered, sweet guy.” But...
  • Behar: The Longer Haley Stays in Race, the ‘More Demented’ Trump Looks

    01/23/2024 6:17:17 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/23/2024 | Pam Key
    Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that the longer Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) stays in the race, the “more demented” former President Donald Trump looks. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “So, the question is, will New Hampshire voters decide the Republican ticket today, or is it the last for Nikki Haley?” Behar said, “I hope not because the more she stays in, the more demented he looks. She needs to stay there so that he can talk about — just to annoy him, you know? I mean, he has had so many gaffes....