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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of students from the Des Moines Public Schools and the Ames Community School District marched to the governor’s mansion Monday to protest the decision to suspend sports and start the school year online. The “Student March for Fairness” comes after the Iowa High School Athletic Association told the schools last week that all in-person activities and sports will be suspended starting Tuesday. The students say they want fairness and equity to compete in fall and winter activities.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate estimates the governor’s order on felon voting rights may impact about 35-thousand Iowans. Pate says the Department of Corrections has given his office a list of Iowans with felony convictions who are covered by the governor’s order and can become a registered voter.
However, the updated list Pate’s office will provide the 99 county auditors will NOT include a last known address.
Earlier estimates suggested as many as 60-thousand Iowans could be enfranchised by Governor Reynolds’ action, but Pate says it appears many paroled felons aready became eligible to vote between 2005 and 2010. That’s when Governor Tom Vilsack and then Governor Chet Culver had an executive order in place that automatically restored voting rights upon completion of a felon’s sentence. The two MILLION absentee ballot request forms Pate’s office sent active Iowa voters started showing up in mailboxes on Saturday.
A voter may check online to see when their county auditor RECEIVED the request FORM, when the auditor MAILS the voter a BALLOT and when the auditor gets that ballot in his or her office.
The secretary of state’s website is S-O-S dot iowa dot gov.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As demand continues to surge at food banks, the federal government is preparing to spend another $1.5 billion on a program that has provided a key source of fresh food to charities this summer as they work to feed the hungry. Despite initial criticism about some distributors chosen for the program and a few logistical headaches, food banks have praised it for helping provide high quality produce, meat and dairy products to millions of Americans who abruptly lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. But food bank officials say the government could help more by expanding the food stamp program, known as SNAP, which reaches far more people.
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(Radio Iowa) – Many Iowa students are already back in school or they will be soon, though for hundreds, returning to class means distance learning via computer. Bao Vang, a spokeswoman for the Better Business Bureau, offers a few safety tips for Iowa parents — and for students — to keep in mind when they’re working online, whether it’s from a laptop, a tablet or a cell phone. “You just never know who you’re talking with or communicating with,” Vang says. “As parents, know what your child is doing online and keep track of social media sites and accounts to which they have access.”
Vang recommends parents use parental controls on those electronic devices, if necessary, especially for younger children. “Don’t share your location,” she says. “There’s a lot of apps out there that automatically track your location when you sign up or tell them your zip code, but you can always disable that in your settings.”
The B-B-B says kids should also be reminded not to click on spam or junk mail.
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Patrons of the IKM-Manning School District will head to the polls Tuesday, Sept. 8th, to cast their ballot that will determine the fate of a $19.2-million dollar bond issue to “provide funds to renovate, remodel, repair, improve, furnish and equip” district facilities, including HVAC, safety and security improvements, AND to construct, furnish and equip an addition to the Manning School Building, and to improve the site.
The addition would create a K-12 center, in Manning. School officials say one factor voters may consider, is a drop in interest rates due to the pandemic, that helps the district secure $3.2 million of the project cost without taxing. In addition to the renovation of the elementary section, built in 1958, the bond will also help pay for upgrades in the next few years to the high school, which was added in the 1970s. The District has said the approximate overall tax rate impact for the District, is $2.00 per $1,000 taxable valuation, or an additional $100.45 per year on residential property valued at $100,000, and $180 for Commercial property with the same valuation.
If the referendum fails to garner enough votes to pass, a new vote may be scheduled for a year from Tuesday. In the mean time, the IKM-Manning Board will have to make some tough decisions on budgeting for the needs of both the Manning and Irwin school sites. The polls are open from 7-a.m. until 8-p.m., Tuesday. Polling sites are as follows:
(Updated 11-a.m.) The Iowa Department of Public Health today (Monday) reports two more deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 statewide since 10-a.m. Sunday, for a total of 1,167, and 619 additional, positive cases of COVID-19, for a total of 70,375. Persons with preexisting medical conditions made up for 814 of the deaths. Officials say 627 deaths have taken place at a long-term care facility since the beginning of the outbreak. There have been a total of 49,873 persons who have recovered from the virus and 2,676 additional negative test results received since Sunday, for a total of 599,160 since testing began. A total of 671,053 individuals have been tested for COVID-19. The combined 14-day positivity rate is 11.0%.
Here in the KJAN listening area: Audubon and Guthrie Counties each have one new, positive case of COVID-19; Pottawattamie County has 3 new cases, Harrison and Shelby County each have one more positive case.
There are 311 Iowans hospitalized with coronavirus, 99 patients are in intensive care, 31 people were admitted to a hospital, and there are 35 patients on a ventilator. In western/southwest Iowa: 11 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19; 7 are in an ICU, 1 person was admitted, and three patients are on ventilators.
Long-Term Care outbreaks remain at 29. IDPH reported 804 positive cases and 367 recoveries within those facilities.
Here are the latest positive case numbers for southwest/western Iowa (County; Positive Case #’s; number of persons who have (recovered); {deaths since the outbreak began}.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa State Patrol is holding a special enforcement effort that run through this Labor Day. Trooper John Farley says There’s a continued focus on bringing down the number of drivers who are clocked at excessive speeds. He says they have many posts online about people who are driving 25 miles-and-hour over the limit to those who are exceeding 100 miles-an-hour on the roadways. Farley says those types of drivers have increased by 47 percent last year and this year the increase is around 85 percent. He says it is one thing that can be controlled and keep accidents from happening.
“Speed is a factor in every collision. No matter what, speed is a factor. And we can save we have icy roads, we have fog or somebody runs a stop sign — speed is still a factor because cars are moving. And we have to make sure we understand that –we are driving within our capabilities, we are driving within the law,” Farley says. He says excessive speed magnifies the problems created when something does go wrong on the roadway. “It just creates more catastrophe when those collisions occur,” he says.
Farley says the Labor Day weekend usually does not have as many accidents as other holidays and they want to be sure that excessive speed does not change that.
Red Oak Police arrested two men on separate charges, Sunday. At around 5:43-p.m., 28-year old Nathan Allen Dishong, of Red Oak, was arrested at 3rd and E. Reed Streets, for fighting (Disdorderly conduct). Dishong was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond. And, at around 7:24-p.m., 37-year old Kyle Anthony Zeigler, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 800 block of E. Reed Street, for Driving While Barred. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.