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“We have a party that is actively suppressing Iowa’s ability to choose. What we need to do is suppress their ability to suppress us.” — Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Nicholas Gluba, who is again fighting for ballot access in court.
A local effort to “batch” cover crop implementation can help lower barriers to entry, according to an ag conservation group. (Photo by USDA)
An Iowa program that deploys conservation practices across an area, rather than one at a time, served as a model for a cover crop adoption program launched by American Farmland Trust.
The conservation agriculture group released a guide to help producers follow the “batch and grow” cover crop program, which it said removes barriers, lowers cost and streamlines cover crop adoption for participants.
(Main photo by simpson33 via iStock / Getty Images Plus; seal courtesy State of Iowa)
A former public defender who won the support of judges and a member of the Iowa Legislature after a 2023 arrest for shoplifting now stands accused of defrauding Medicaid and cancer patients.
Attorney Cassi Wigington, who will be sentenced next month on a charge of healthcare fraud, has agreed to pay $445,455 as restitution in the case. That agreement comes 13 months after Wigington told the Iowa Supreme Court she had shoplifted alcohol and other items from a grocery store due to her struggles to meet her “family’s basic needs.”
Democratic congressional candidate Lindsay James told Iowa State fairgoers Thursday she would focus on lowering healthcare costs and bringing money back to Iowans rather than spending it on foreign conflict or letting it be used for politicians’ own gain.
Nicholas Gluba is “very confident” that he and other Libertarian candidates will make it onto election ballots this fall, he told reporters after making his case for governor at the Iowa State Fair.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a spill into Bulger Creek in Dallas County that occurred after a large structure fire south of De Soto.
Researchers found that white-footed mice, not white-tailed deer, are closely linked to the number of young blacklegged ticks, the life stage most likely to infect people with Lyme disease, Stateline reports.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration will face challenges securing Senate confirmation after the committee chairman in charge of that process expressed doubts.
A federal judge in the District of Columbia issued an order blocking U.S. Health and Human Services from implementing sweeping changes to grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program while a lawsuit proceeds, but dozens of existing grants that were canceled this summer will remain so for now, unless the administration chooses to reinstate the funds.
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