(Glenwood, Iowa) — A citation report filed by the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals shows a 30-year-old resident at the Glenwood Resource Center died of dehydration. According to KETV, the report alleges that a “lack of training and communication” led to the man being given lower fluids than were ordered for him several times over a one-month period. The report said the agency fined the Glenwood Resource Center $10,000 in the man’s death.

The report says the man “experienced a hospitalization in November 2021 due to dehydration and acute kidney injury.” The citation reads “Based on interviews and record review, the facility failed to ensure nursing staff provided appropriate training to staff and care to clients to ensure implementation of client health care plans.”

Read the public report here.

In January, the facility was fined for not ensuring adequate staffing and failing to report potential abuse, per the DIA. The facility is scheduled to close in 2024.

(Radio Iowa) – A host of other races have been settled for the General Election ballot. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller is the Democratic Party’s nominee for Secretary of State. Miller will challenge Republican Paul Pate’s bid for a 4th term as the state’s top election official. Miller finished with about 72 percent of the vote. Clinton County Auditor Eric Van Lancken finished with about 28 percent.

A far closer contest between Republicans vying to run against Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand in November. Realtor Todd Halbur finished about two-and-a-half percent ahead of former state legislator Mary Ann Hanusa. It was a margin of about 39-hundred votes when about 96 percent of statewide votes had been tabulated.

None of Iowa’s four U.S. House members had opposition in Tuesday’s Primary and challengers were unopposed in three of the four congressional districts. Here are those fall match-ups: Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa will face Democrat Christina Bohannan of Iowa City. Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion will face Democrat Liz Mathis of Hiawatha and Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull will face Democrat Ryan Melton of Nevada.

(Radio Iowa) – Republican Senator Chuck Grassley will face retired Navy Admiral Mike Franken in the General Election. Franken won the Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate nomination, finishing 12 points ahead of former Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, the early favorite in the race. “We must defeat Chuck Grassley,” Franken said, pausing as his supporters cheered, then adding: “so for too long, he has said: ‘We’re working on that…There’s a committee addressing on that,’ from the NRA, from a host of other things.”

Franken, a northwest Iowa native, had a 36 year career in the Navy, including a stint in leadership at the Pentagon. “My promise to you is that I will reinforce every day a basic precept that I learned (over) many, many years in the military,” Franken said, “and that is caring for those you’ve never met as much as those you know.”

Franken got 55% of the vote in Tuesday’s Primary. He spoke to supporters in Des Moines after the race was called. “My promise to you is that I will support Social Security for all of us, make sure it’s vibrant. I will give Medicare to all those who want it,” Franken says. “My job is to make education, the type that I received, available to everybody in the state and renew the basic Iowa precept where we came to this state and we graduated from this state better than anyone else in the nation.”

Finkenauer finished with 40% of the vote. Finkenauer told supporters in Cedar Rapids last night that she had called Franken to congratulate him. “And for winning tonight in a way that I know is going to bring together Iowans to do what needs to get done in 2022, which is defeating Senator Chuck Grassley,” Finkenauer said, to cheers at an event in Cedar Rapids. Finkenauer served one term in the U.S. House, but lost her bid for reelection in 2020. Finkenauer told supporters she’ll “never stop fighting” for Iowa. “We are going to do everything we can for these Iowa Democrats in 2022 because our state and our democracy depends on it,” she said at the conclusion of her speech..

Glenn Hurst, the third candidate in the race, finished with about five percent of the vote and he has offered his “full support” to Franken’s bid to defeat Grassley. Grassley, who is seeking an 8th term, cruised to victory in his G-O-P contest against Sioux City attorney Jim Carlin. Grassley won his primary with 73.5% of the vote compared to Carlin’s 26.5%. It was the first time Grassley had faced a primary since 1980 — the year he was first elected to the U.S. Senate.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds endorsed a handful of G-O-P Primary candidates for Iowa House seats — all were running against House Republicans who opposed her state scholarships for 10,000 students — and the governor’s picks won on Tuesday.

Reynolds helped defeat the Republican chairman of the House Education Committee and the Republican who led House debate for her E-15 bill and tax cut plan. Reynolds said her party is unified and ready for the General Election.

“For heaven’s sakes, the state convention is Saturday and we will be ready to go, to rally the troops, to have the team defined,” Reynolds said early Tuesday morning.

It appears none of the five GOP candidates running for a House seat in the Newton area reached the 35% mark — the threshold required to win the party’s nomination. That means a nominating convention will be held to select the GOP candidate for the General Election.

(Radio Iowa) – State Senator Zach Nunn of Bondurant won the Republican nomination in Iowa’s third congressional district and will face Democratic Congressman Cindy Axne in the General Election. “We’ve got a strong mandate,” Nunn said. “It was almost a 70% win in a three-way race and we feel very strongly that Iowans are ready to change the course and direction for country and that starts with being successful right here in Iowa.”

Nunn, a U.S. Air Force Veteran, is currently a member of the Iowa National Guard. He also has served in the legislature, winning two terms in the Iowa House. He’s current a state senator. “We have had, I think, a very good track record three times now of turning blue districts red by double digits,” Nunn said. “because we want to listen to everyone and we want to come up with pragmatic solutions that really serve our community first.”

Axne is seeking a third term in the U.S. House representing a newly-composed third congressional district, covering 21 counties. The district is competitive and will be crucial as both political parties seek to win a majority of seats in the U.S. House this November. “All eyes in the country are going to be focused on Iowa in a midterm election,” Nunn said. “This has got to be one of the top races in the country to be able to win back a majority that puts Republicans in a place where they can hold the Biden Administration accountable.”

The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Nunn has proven he is “out of touch with Iowa values” by supporting an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest or saving the mother’s life. Nunn won the GOP Primary with about 66% of the vote. Nicole Hasso, who works in the financial sector, was a distant second with 20%. Gary Leffler, a construction consultant, got about 15%. Axne was unopposed in Tuesday’s Primary and none of Iowa’s three other U.S. House members had opposition. Democratic challengers were unopposed in three of the four congressional districts.

Here are the other fall congressional match-ups in Iowa: Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa will face Democrat Christina Bohannan of Iowa City. Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion will face Democrat Liz Mathis of Hiawatha and Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull will face Democrat Ryan Melton of Nevada.