Iowa quarterback Joe Labas hopes to have access to most of the playbook by the time the Music City Bowl against Kentucky kicks off Saturday. Labas will make his first start when the Hawkeyes play the Wildcats in Nashville.
His mobility may put more quarterback runs into the game plan and Labas believes he will be comfortable with the offense by Saturday.
With former Michigan quarterback Cade McNamara joining the Iowa program the bowl game is a big opportunity for Labas.
Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery says Kris Murray and Connor McCaffery will play tonight (Thursday night), when the Hawkeyes visit Nebraska. Murray missed the last four games with a leg injury while Connor missed the loss to Eastern Illinois with a sprained wrist.
With Murray out senior center Filip Rebraca has stepped up for the Hawkeyes by averaging 21 and a half points and nine rebounds the past four games.
Nebraska is 7-6 overall and the Huskers nearly upset top ranked Purdue.
McCaffery hopes an embarrassing loss to Eastern Illinois will serve as a learning experience for his team.
(Fayette, Iowa) – A collision between a car and an SUV in northeastern Iowa, Wednesday afternoon, resulted in injuries to both drivers and a passenger in one the vehicles. The Iowa State Patrol reports the accident happened just south of Fayette, at around 3:10-p.m.
Authorities say a 2000 Buick LeSabre driven by 92-year-old Eldon Anthony Knipper, of Arlington (Iowa) was traveling south on Highway 150/K Avenue, when the car crossed the center line of the road and struck a northbound 2007 Chevy Equinox, being driven by 64-year-old Debra Sue Husted, of Oelwein.
Following the impact, the Buick came to rest on the north shoulder, while the SUV stopped on the southbound shoulder of the road. Both drivers and a passenger in the SUV, 35-year-old Trenton James Husted, of Oelwein, were transported by Fayette EMS to the Mercy/Oelwein Hospital.
The accident remains under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol.
(Radio Iowa) – Top Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate say the 2023 legislature will consider new guidelines for pipelines that would capture and carry carbon away from Iowa’s ethanol plants. The proposed Summit and Navigator pipelines run through areas House Speaker Pat Grassley represents.
“I’ve been around here long enough to know when something really is an issue in our districts and I’ve talked to enough members as well as (people) in my own district to know that this is a real thing,” Grassley says. “This is something that Iowans are frustrated about.” Grassley suggests an outright ban on carbon pipelines is unlikely.
“Sometimes it’s just: ‘Well, stop it! Make it stop,’ where we have to be thoughtful in this process,” Grassley says, “and that’s what we’re trying to do right now.” Senate Republican Leader Jack Whitver says it won’t be an easy debate. “I expect that we’ll have a thorough conversation about this. It’s something that our members have heard about back on the campaign trail,” Whitver says. “And they hear from both sides — people that want the pipeline, that are excited about it, that think it’s good for our economy and our rural areas and people that are against it and so we have a lot of members that have a lot of different opinions on it.”
Whitver says there are similar debates about the siting of wind turbines and large-scale solar arrays. “Landowner rights is a key part of Republican philosophy in our platform and so we certainly want to restrict that and that’s what makes these issues difficult, you know. There are people concerned about solar farms going up. There’s also people saying: ‘Well, that’s their land. They can do what they want,'” and that’s what makes these conversations difficult and we’re coming into session to try to work through these issues.”
This fall, Grassley sent a letter to the Iowa Utilities Board, expressing concern about a waiver developers of the Navigator pipeline were seeking from current regulations about sampling and restoring topsoil in farm fields. “When I’m talking back in my district — I know I’m not allowed to take off my speaker’s hat, but I’m going to try to — and I said: ‘I’m going to watch this very closely…I want the process to play out, but if there’s things that happen that I don’t think are up to par or not being fully transparent, I’ll weigh in,” Grassley says.
Navigator withdrew its request to reduce the amount of testing and restoration of topsoil currently required by state regulations. This fall during a televised debate, Governor Reynolds said she supports existing state law outlining when carbon pipeline developers would be able to seize property from unwilling landowners, but she has not commented on county ordinances which establish local rules for where the pipelines may be built.
ARDITH JEAN HARRIS, 81, of Anita, died Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at her home in Anita. Funeral services for ARDITH HARRIS will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic. Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Anita has the arrangements.
A visitation will take place one hour prior to the funeral at the church.
A luncheon will be held immediately following the funeral in the reception hall of the Zion Lutheran Church.
Private interment will be held at Massena Cemetery.
ARDITH JEAN HARRIS is survived by:
Daughters: Lori (Ryan) Glissmann; Jody (Kevin) Meyer, and Micki (Heath) Hartwig.
10 Grandhcildren
23 Grandchildren
Brothers: Dean Mertes; Chuck (Suzan) Mertes; John Mertes
Sister: Carol Shaw
many nieces and nephews
Uncle Verle A. Petri and her brother-in-law Herbert Cooley.
(Radio Iowa) – A $1,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to an arrest in the shooting of a man found dead early Christmas morning in Fort Dodge.
That man was identified as 46-year-old Montreal Dungy of Fort Dodge, and at this time investigators are continuing to follow up on this homicide. 
Anyone with information is urged to contact Webster County Crimestoppers or the Fort Dodge Police Department.
(Radio Iowa) – A top GOP leader says enacting limits on what judges and juries can award in medical malpractice lawsuits will be a priority for the 2023 legislature. Senate Republican Leader Jack Whitver says in the past six years, the Senate has passed two different limits or caps on non-economic or so-called “pain and suffering” awards in medical malpractice cases.
“We’ve passed both a $250,000 cap and I think we passed a $1 million cap a couple of years later, trying to figure out what the House might be willing to do or engage on that issue,” Whitver says, “and so it’s been a priority for us.”
Four of the six states that border Iowa have limits on medical malpractice claims.
Jack Whitver. (RI file photo)
“As we look around the state, our rural hospitals are struggling. One of the ways to try to recruit and keep doctors is to make sure they’re in a liability situation that’s comparable to other states,” Whitver says. “We’re not trying to do anything that is outside that norm. We’re trying to compete with the states around us.”
Nebraska and South Dakota have a $500,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits. Wisconsin’s is $750,000. Missouri’s limit is adjusted annually to account for inflation and it’s nearly $800,000 this year.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Sheriff’s Office today (Wednesday) released a report on arrests covering the dates of Dec. 19th through the 25th.
Military Bowl – Duke 30, Central Florida 13
Liberty Bowl – Arkansas 55, Kansas 53 (3OT)
Holiday Bowl – Oregon 28, North Carolina 27
Texas Bowl – Texas Tech 42, Ole Miss 25
(Radio Iowa) – The wintry weather is forcing most Iowans to spend more time indoors — and with furnaces, fireplaces and space heaters running, there’s a serious risk from an odorless, colorless gas. Le Mars Fire and Rescue Chief Dave Schipper strongly recommends carbon monoxide detectors in all houses, apartments and mobile homes. “We want everybody to have a carbon monoxide alarm or carbon monoxide detector just like a smoke detector,” Schipper says. “We want those to be placed where you can hear them. A lot of people tend to buy carbon monoxide alarms and put them in the basement, which is fine — if you can hear them. Otherwise, we want them in the sleeping area so they can awake you if there’s a problem.”
When people close up their houses because of the cold and there is little ventilation, Schipper says that’s when carbon monoxide calls to his department become common. “This time of year, we see all kinds of problems with carbon monoxide as far as furnaces that aren’t running properly, fireplaces that may be plugged or have creosote built up in them,” he says. “We have a lot of people that tend to run their cars in their garage to warm them up in the wintertime. Even if the garage door is open, that carbon monoxide is staying in the garage or pushing into the house.”
Schipper says it’s critical to take precautions since carbon monoxide is invisible and has no scent, and without a detector, there’s no way to know if it’s seeping into your house. “That causes headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting,” the chief says. “A lot of people think they’re just getting a cold or the flu or getting sick, but really they could be having a carbon monoxide problem.”
A good C-O detector can cost as little as $15 and it could save your life.
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