Hawkeye Ten Conference
Denison-Schleswig 71, Atlantic 60 (Denison-Schleswig clinched share of Hawkeye Ten Conference. A: Colton Rasmussen 26pts.)
Lewis Central 53, Glenwood 48
Maryville, MO 74, Creston 52
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Denison-Schleswig 71, Atlantic 60 (Denison-Schleswig clinched share of Hawkeye Ten Conference. A: Colton Rasmussen 26pts.)
Lewis Central 53, Glenwood 48
Maryville, MO 74, Creston 52
(All games are set for 7:00 p.m.)
Class 3A Regional Semifinals
Region 5
Clarke @ Des Moines Christian
Harlan @ Atlantic- ON KJAN
Class 4A Regional Quarterfinals
Region 1
Perry @ Carroll
Webster City @ Fort Dodge
Region 3
Storm Lake @ LeMars
Denison-Schleswig @ Sergeant Bluff-Luton
Region 8
Oskaloosa @ Winterset
Creston @ Glenwood
Class 5A Regional Quarterfinals
Region 2
CB Thomas Jefferson @ Des Moines Lincoln
(Montgomery County, Iowa) – Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the area of Main and Maple Streets in Elliott, Tuesday. They responded to a report of a possible domestic situation, but upon further investigation, determined there was not a domestic incident at the scene. Deputies however, arrested 57-year-old David Lee McClain, for Public Intoxication. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.
Today: Cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 27 by 10am. Windy, with a west northwest wind 13 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Tonight: **WINTER STORM WARNING in effect at 9-p.m.**Snow, mainly after 10pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow after 1am. Low around 15. Wind chill values as low as zero. Blustery, with a north northeast wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
Thursday: **Winter Storm Warning continues until 6-p.m.**Snow likely, mainly before 10am. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow before 9am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 27. Wind chill values as low as zero. Blustery, with a north wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 31. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 11 to 16 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 39. Breezy.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 47. We received 1.13 inches of rain at the KJAN Studios. Our Low was 27. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 64 and the Low was 23. The Record High on this date was 72 in 1921. The Record Low was -31 in 1905.
Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder says her seventh ranked Hawkeyes won’t take Wisconsin lightly on Wednesday night. The Hawkeyes beat the Badgers 102-71 in Madison back in early December and have won the last 24 games in the series.
Wisconsin is 3-11 in the Big Ten and coming off a win at Minnesota.
Bluder wants to see a solid effort on both ends of the court.
Drake takes a share of the Missouri Valley lead on the road to Northern Iowa Wednesday night. The Bulldogs have won five of the last six in the series but the last three meetings have gone to overtime.
That’s Drake coach Darian DeVries who expects another close game.
Drake won a double overtime thriller in Des Moines back on February first and UNI coach Ben Jacobson says Bulldog point guard Roman Penn was the difference when it counted.
The Panthers enter the contest on a five game losing skid.
Jacobson says in a jumbled Valley race it is the little things that make the difference.
Iowa State looks to regain its winning ways on Wednesday night when the 19th ranked Cyclones host 22nd ranked TCU. The Cyclones have dropped four of their last five and slipped to 7-5 in the Big-12 but coach T.J. Otzelberger says nobody has hit the panic button.
Otzelberger says everybody has gone through some struggles and a tough Big-12 race is the reason.
TCU has battled through some key injuries and the Horned Frogs enter the game on a three game losing skid.
TCU standout junior guard Mike Miles has been out with a knee injury. He could return for the game.
Senior forward Tre King says despite their recent struggles the Cyclones remain confident.
The Cyclones remain in the Big-12 title hunt and senior forward Jaz Kunc says they need to focus on the things that got them to this point.
ISU is coming off its first home loss of the season to Oklahoma State and King says the Cyclones weren’t as tough at crunch time as they needed to be.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has released an economic study that says using carbon dioxide pipelines at ethanol plants will increase profits and keep most of the industry from leaving the state.
Dave Miller of Decision Innovation Solutions wrote the report which says taking advantage of federal tax credits for reducing carbon in ethanol would dramatically improve margins. “We built the industry on operating margins in the 20 to 30 cents a gallon range on gross operating margins. Our estimate is that with a 45-Z tax credit that gross operating margin basically doubles,” he says.
The carbon dioxide has to be taken out to make ethanol more carbon friendly to compete with other fuels. Miller says without carbon sequestration, the ethanol production in Iowa would move out to another state who would take advantage of the tax credits. “From about 2007 to 11, we built the Iowa ethanol industry, and in about that same period, that whole industry could move, probably not far beyond the borders of Iowa,” Miller says.
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association president, Monte Shaw, says Iowa farmers could still sell their corn to ethanol plants but would have to pay to ship it. “When you are shipping corn instead of adding value to it where you are dropping it off — you are not going to get the same money — about ten billion dollars in lost revenues,” Shaw says. Miller says pipelines are the best way to ship the carbon dioxide to keep the costs down and allow the plants to expand.
“It is an additional $2.16 billion a year that would flow into the state. We have not done an economic impact study on what all the secondary and tertiary effects are of that,” Miller says. But he says the second impact would exist and stimulate substantial economic activity within the state.
Shaw says other carbon capture options for ethanol plants take time to develop and Iowa could lose 75% of its plants without the pipelines. “You know, we’re in a competition to produce low-carbon transportation options. And so this technology — this carbon capture and sequestration technology is the single biggest and best tool we have to keep liquid fuels like ethanol, competitive with electric vehicles going forward,” Shaw says.
Shaw says he understands the concerns about pipelines but says overall pipelines have an incredibly safe track record. And when it comes to payment for easements — Shaw says the pipeline companies are willing to negotiate. “I have yet to run into a landowner who has a pipeline, proposed to go across their land, who has engaged with one of the companies. And then who I’ve talked to, that said, ‘you know, they really just weren’t offering a fair price’.” Shaw says.
Shaw says he’s familiar with one negotiation near his hometown and wishes the pipeline was running across his land because it would have been about the best way for his farm to make money for the next five years. Shaw says landowners should see what they can get for their easements.”We’re not saying hey, ram these things through, we’re saying ‘fair and equitable’. So we urge landowners not to listen to some of the misinformation that’s definitely been put out there about these pipelines. But to sit down and talk, bring your list of questions, bring your list of concerns,” he says.
Shaw says if we can’t have low-carbon biofuels, we’re going to be stuck with no choice other than electronic vehicles, and he says there should be competition and options for consumers.
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds is asking legislators to pass a bill that would forbid state agencies or pension funds from doing business with investment firms that boycott gun makers or the fossil fuel industry.
“An unfortunate trend has emerged in prominent investment firms that prioritize political agendas and woke ideology above their client’s returns,” Molly Severn, an aide to the governor, said during a Senate subcommittee hearing. “Environmental, Social and Governance or ESG practices are not only legally suspect, they are financially reckless.”
Richard Rogers of the Iowa Firearms Coalition said an international bank recently notified a prominent Iowa gun manufacturer and dealer it would no longer process its credit card sales because it was a gun business.
“If financial industries were to redline on the basis of race, creed, color (and) so on it would be both immoral and illegal,” Rogers said. “I don’t think they should be able to redline entire industries that are lawful and moral.”
A spokesman for the state universities as well as managers of the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System and a pension for fund peace officers said they have not invested in companies that are targeted by the governor’s bill.
Similar bills are being considered in other states as Republicans criticize firms making investment decisions based on the way a business approaches issues like climate change. However, Republican lawmakers in Mississippi recently rejected the plan. The Mississippi bill, just like the one Iowa’s governor has proposed, would require publication of a list of financial institutions the state is not to do business with because of their investment policies.
(Radio Iowa) – The University of Iowa will ask the Board of Regents to approve a housing master plan that includes building a new dorm and selling one that it currently owns.
The five-year plan includes building a new residence hall that would accommodate 250 to 400 students and is estimated to cost between 40 and 60 million dollars. The plan calls for funding some of the cost of the new dorm by selling the Mayflower Residence Hall.
Mayflower was built in 1968 and at the time was a private apartment. It is one mile from campus and the U-I says it is the last chosen residence hall and the first one the students transfer from.
The plan the U-I will present to the Board next week also includes continued renovation of the current residence halls.