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An open letter from Iowa journalists covering a school shooting
A single gunman opened fire in the cafeteria of Perry High School in Iowa, on Thursday, Jan. 4, killing one sixth-grader and wounding seven others before taking his own life. The Iowa Starting Line staff covered this tragedy and here are our reflections on what that experience was like and how it has affected them. Ty…
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Report: Perry shooter made racist post before killing
The Perry High School shooter made a racist social media comment minutes before opening fire on students and staff at the rural Iowa school.
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West Des Moines teen arrested after making school shooting post
An 18-year-old West Des Moines resident was arrested after sharing a Snapchat post about shooting up a school the same day as a nearby school shooting in Perry. According to the criminal complaint, Lakeeve Fort made a post asking “Should I shoot up the school??” with a thumbs up and a thumbs down emoji. The…
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Perry principal stable after being shot while protecting students
Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger’s daughter said he tried to talk Dylan Butler down before the 17-year-old gunman shot the longtime administrator and five others at the school on Thursday. Claire Marburger shared this tidbit in a public Facebook post to let everyone know her father was in stable condition. “As I heard of…
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Casey’s staff shelters students fleeing Perry school shooting
A Casey’s General Store in Perry became a place of refuge for several students Thursday morning after a gunman opened fire at nearby Perry High School. Store Manager Jocelyn Kirchner said she received a call at 7:30 a.m. about what was transpiring at the high school. Several students had fled from the facility and went…
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Iowa Republican activist found guilty of voter fraud
A Sioux City Republican activist was found guilty of 52 charges of voter fraud by a 12-person federal jury on Tuesday. According to federal court documents, Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, of Sioux City concocted various election schemes in 2020 to get her husband, Jeremy Taylor, elected, including voting on ballots herself for members of Sioux…
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Iowa is in its longest drought since the 1950s. Here’s why it’s ‘odd’
Iowa has seen some kind of drought conditions in the state for 174 weeks—just under three-and-a-half years—making this the longest drought Iowa has had since the 1950s. But Iowans haven’t seen widespread water restrictions or serious crop failures. So is there anything to worry about? “It depends on who you are and where you are,”…
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Biden Launches ‘American Climate Corps’ Program to Create 20,000 Jobs
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]The Biden administration on Wednesday announced an executive action to create the American Climate Corps program, which will aim to train 20,000 young people for jobs focused on fighting climate change. According to the White House, the program is a federal effort “to ensure more young people have access…
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One Year In, Here’s How the Inflation Reduction Act Has Helped Iowa
One year ago today, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law. The legislation represented the largest-ever investment in fighting climate change, lowered health care and prescription drug costs, raised taxes on corporations, and boosted funding for the Internal Revenue Service to go after wealthy tax cheats. The bill was passed with only Democratic…
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Biden’s Signature Climate Law Will Create a Domestic Jobs and Manufacturing Boom, Study Finds
The United States could soon experience a boom of up to 1.6 million new solar and wind energy jobs and a boost in wages for workers in those industries, according to a new analysis on the impact of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Researchers at Dartmouth College and Princeton University last week released a working…
