Jim Field speaks with Joni Ehm, Southwest Iowa STEM Manager, about the STEM Scale-Up program for educators.
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(Radio Iowa) – Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says President Biden should focus tonight’s (Tuesday’s) State of the Union speech on federal spending plans. “The Biden Administration must change course and move away from the fiscal insanity and partisan politics that dominate Washington,” Grassley says. Resetting the federal budget to pre-pandemic spending levels would be the place to start, according to Grassley.
“During 2020, there was about $3 trillion spent to get us back on track after the government shut down the economy,” Grassley says. “Then we go back to that level of spending in 2020 and add to it whatever needs to be added to it, but we don’t use the present baseline to continue spending.” As lawmakers craft the next federal budget, Grassley says more should be spent to replenish U.S. stockpile of weapons that have been shipped to Ukraine.
Grassley says Medicaid and Social Security benefits need to be restructured, but that should be a separate conversation. “You’ve got to tackle our entitlement programs by themselves and when we do tackle them, we’re got to make sure that people who are on retirement or close to retirement don’t get cut,” Grassley says. Grassley cites the reforms adopted 38 years ago as a guide, suggesting any changes for younger Americans’ Social Security and Medicare benefits be slowly phased in over several decades.
Janet has health issues that require medical care. She is considered to be an endangered Missing Person at this time. Please contact 911 or the Council Bluffs Police Department at 712‐890‐5400 if you have information regarding the her whereabouts.
(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports a woman from Lenox faces a Possession of Contraband/Weapon – inside a Correctional Facility. 44-year-old Cassandra Marlena Davis, who is serving time in the Adams County Jail on other charges, was assessed the additional charge Monday evening. Davis’ bond was increased to $12,000 (cash or surety).
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Creston 65, Clarinda 54
Kuemper Catholic 56, Sioux City North 50
Southwest Valley 54, Red Oak 47
Western Iowa Conference
MVAOCOU 75, IKM-Manning 41
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 63, Ar-We-Va 52
Coon Rapids-Bayard 50, Glidden-Ralston 28
Exira-EHK 70, Paton-Churdan 29
Woodbine 79, West Harrison 29
Corner Conference
Stanton 72, Lenox 41 (S: Leah Sandin 17pts, Jenna Stephens 16pts 8reb)
Pride of Iowa Conference
East Union 44, Orient-Macksburg 25
I-35 54, Mount Ayr 46
Southeast Warren 43, Moravia 28
Southwest Valley 54, Red Oak 47
Other Scores
Panorama 49, Ogden 16
West Central Valley 51, Saydel 31
BOYS BASKETBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Bedford 60, Shenandoah 38
Creston 61, Clarinda 57
Red Oak 78, Southwest Valley 41 (RO: Max DeVries 22pts. Becomes Red Oak’s all-time leader in 3-point makes)
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 58, Ar-We-Va 57
CAM 60, East Union 42
Coon Rapids-Bayard 60, Glidden-Ralston 17
West Harrison 80, Woodbine 43
Pride of Iowa Conference
Lenox 77, Stanton 57
Moravia 74, Southeast Warren 52
Mount Ayr 62, I-35 38
Other Scores
Ogden 60, Panorama 54
Parkview Christian 89, Heartland Christian 45
(Ottumwa, Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Corrections reports 36-year-old Ross Thomas Cobler, who was convicted of Domestic Abuse Assault-3rd or Subsequent Offense, in Wapello County, failed to report to the Ottumwa Residential Facility as required Friday.
Cobler is a white male, height 5′ 10″, and weighs 203 pounds. He was admitted to the work release facility on 10/26/22. Persons with information on Cobler’s whereabouts should contact local police.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Board of Education for the Atlantic Community School District will meet in a regular session beginning at 6:30-p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2023, in the High School Media Center. Discussion items during their meeting include:
Action items on their agenda include:
ACSD Superintendent Steve Barber will remind the Board about the following dates of interest to the Board:
Immediately following the regular meeting, the Atlantic School Board will move into an exempt (Closed) session, for the purpose of negotiations with the Atlantic Education Association, representing the District’s Certified & Non-Certified Staff.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University researchers are part of an effort led by Purdue University to diversify the cornbelt. I-S-U sociology professor J. Arbuckle says farmers once planted many different crops on their land. “The long rotations with lots of different crops, spread risk, all around the farm, but they also took care of, you know ecological processes, agro ecological processes that took care of a lot of the, you know, the pest cycles and the weed cycles and that sort of thing,” he says. The crops became less diversified with the advent of chemicals to deal with the pests and weeds, and the use of mechanized farm machines. Arbuckle says farmers started specializing in soybeans and corn.
“We’re seeing a lot of problems stemming from that specialized system, right? So we’ve got a lot of tillage going on that results in reduction of soil health and soil erosion. We also have herbicide resistant weeds, we’ve got pesticide resistant insects,” Arbuckle says. There’s also a boom and bust pattern for the price of those commodities. He says this project is looking at ways to add some diversity back into the system. “To number one, provide more market opportunities for farmers, more ways to have more resilient cropping systems that use more agroecological processes to deal with those pest and weed cycles,” Arbuckle says. “But also to deal with some of the more extreme weather that we’re having.”
They hope to find some of the answers with the ten million dollar U-S-D-A grant. “This is a five-year project. So we don’t have any illusions that we’re going to change the system in five years,” he says. “So really, what we’re doing is looking at different options and pathways and potential creative visions for ways that we might open doors for diversification.”
The team includes more than 30 investigators who are working with farmers and other agricultural stakeholders in Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois to envision and evaluate more diverse agricultural systems for the Midwest.
DAVID MILLER, 73, of Harlan, died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, at Myrtue Medical Center, in Harlan. Funeral services for DAVID MILLER will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, from 5-until 7-p.m.
Burial is in the Harlan Cemetery.
DAVID MILLER is survived by:
His wife – Donita Miller, of Harlan.
His mother-in-law: Gertrude Jones, of Harlan.
Today: Partly cloudy. High around 45. NW winds @ 10-15 mph becoming SE late.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low 24. SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High around 50. S @ 10.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy w/scattered light rain-snow. High 38.
Friday: Mostly cloudy w/flurries. High 32.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 55. Our Low was 33. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 57 and the Low was 20. The Record High on this date was 64 in 1987. The Record Low was -30 in 1905.