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“We’ve got to build something that is not just better than now, but better than before, and that’s going to require a lot of Midwestern common sense.” — Pete Buttigieg, former U.S. secretary of Transportation, during a Des Moines campaign event for Iowa 3rd Congressional District candidate Sarah Trone Garriott.
DMACC officials have created a steering committee with the goal of developing a framework for AI adoption and innovation. (Photo by Brooklyn Draisey/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Des Moines Area Community College is moving into a new phase of artificial intelligence integration, with college leaders hoping to turn AI innovation from isolated to integrated.
DMACC vice president for student affairs Erica Spiller and Amee Austin, associate executive director of human resources, presented to the college’s board of directors Monday on how DMACC is moving from early adoption of AI to developing an institution-wide strategy.
The wrecked patrol car of former police officer Robert Roquet, who worked for both the City of Jesup and the Meskwaki Nation Police Department in 2021. (Photo from Polk County District Court files)
A former Iowa police officer, fired for alleged dishonesty and incompetence after a 2021 traffic accident, is now suing the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Council for revoking his certification as an Iowa officer.
Court records indicate that in 2021, Robert Roquet was working as both a full-time police officer for the City of Jesup and as a part-time officer for the Meskwaki Nation Police Department. According to police reports, on the evening of Dec. 9, 2021, Roquet was patrolling rural Tama County for the Meskwaki department when he drove off a rural road and crashed his patrol car into a fence while traveling at a rate of 73 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per-hour zone.
Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg did not rule out a potential 2028 run for the presidency Monday at a campaign event for Iowa congressional candidate Sarah Trone Garriott in Des Moines.
After several weeks trailing last year’s pace and the five-year average, corn development in Iowa has jumped ahead according to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a July 2 panel decision requiring bond hearings for immigrants held under the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy, Stateline reports.
President Donald Trump “acted in bad faith” when he swiftly dropped his tax return lawsuit and directed his Cabinet members to establish a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday.
Darline Graham Nordone will finish out the term of her older brother, the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who adopted and raised her following their parents’ deaths, SC Daily Gazette reports.
President Donald Trump enlisted star IndyCar racers, a simulated pit stop and a pair of high-powered sports cars Monday as he sought to rev up excitement for a race around the nation’s capital next month.
Firearm homicides in the United States fell sharply in 2024, but gun suicides reached a record high, according to a new analysis of federal mortality data by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Stateline reports.
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