Jim Field speaks with local Veteran Clay Belcher about his experiences in the Marine Corps as part of our Freedom Friday series.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Members of the Iowa Supreme Court will meet with students with stops at five high schools and a college in the Sioux City area. The justices will split up for visits Wednesday at Sioux City North, Sioux City West, Maple Valley in Mapleton, Westwood in Sloan, OA/BCIG High in Ida Grove, and Morningside College in Sioux City. They will talk with students about the role of the courts.
The Judicial Branch says the justices also will hold a special session at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Morningside’s Epply Auditorium, where they will hear arguments in two cases.
The chairman of the Republican National Committee made a trip to Iowa Thursday, rejecting calls for the G-O-P to moderate its message. Reince Priebus, a Wisconsin Republican, presided over the national party in 2012 and has been elected to stay on for the 2014 elections. “Listen, I don’t think our platform is the issue,” Priebus told Iowa reporters Thursday afternoon. “I think a lot of times it’s some of these biologically stupid things that people say, you know, that I believe caused a lot of the problems.” Priebus points to controversial comments about abortion from Missouri Republican Todd Akin.
Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King backed Akin in 2012. King may run for the U.S. senate himself in 2014 and G-O-P operative Karl Rove has threatened to run ads against King, so a more moderate Republican candidate could win a primary. Priebus says Rove has a First Amendment right to make the case against King. “Obviously there’s a lot of groups out there that are picking winners and losers in primaries, right? It’s been for happening a long time,” Priebus says. “…Personally, as an RNC (chair), I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe the party should pick winners and losers in primaries and I think it’s, historically, if you look at it, it’s a bit of a fool’s game because you can’t actually predict some of the things that go on.”
Priebus is on a “listening tour” to visit with Republicans around the country and chart a new course for the party. He says the G-O-P can’t just wait ’til the last four months of a campaign and, instead, must embrace “permanent politics” in order to compete with Democrats. “It’s something that quite frankly our party has been slow to get to because we really don’t like politics as a vocation, as a party. It’s something that we resist, generally, as a party and it’s something that has to come to an end,” Priebus says. “If we want to compete at a granular, person-to-person, heart-to-heart level — we’ve got to be here all the time.”
Priebus says the “liberty movement” presidential candidate Ron Paul built in Iowa must be “welcomed” because it’s a “big piece” of a growing party. The chairman of the Iowa Republican Party and a majority of members of the state central committee are Ron Paul supporters.
(Radio Iowa)
Researchers at Iowa State University are using a federal grant to investigate ways to keep Iowa prison inmates from returning to prison once they’re released. ISU sociology professors David Peters and Andy Hochstetler have found treatment programs designed to reduce Iowa’s recidivism rate are working for many former inmates. But, Peters notes the treatment programs in place have proven much more effective for offenders from urban areas of the state. “For parolees sent back to urban areas, the treatment they got both in the prison and outside of the prison in the community really was effective at reducing their liklihood of ending up back in prison,” Peters said. “In fact, it was about a 40 percent reduction in the odds of a (parolee) showing up back in prison.”
But, for rural parolees, the treatment programs had “zero effect,” according to Peters. Both researchers suspect rural parolees face more obstacles to accessing substance abuse treatment and other help, so they may be more likely to relapse and violate the terms of their parole. Hochstetler says drug and alcohol problems clearly increase the risk of recidivism, but time spent in prison doesn’t appear to be much of a factor. “Curiously, we thought the longer you were (in prison), the more difficult time you would have reintegrating. But, we did not find that was an important predictor of either treatment or recidivism,” Hochstetler said.
The second phase of the study will involve visits to all eight community corrections districts across the state and interviews with probation officers. They’re hoping the work will help them identify treatment options that will further reduce the rate of recidivism and provide a cost savings to the state.
(Radio Iowa)
Here’s the Freese-Notis (Podcast) weather forecast for Atlantic and the KJAN listening area and weather data for Atlantic…
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354 AM CST FRI MAR 8 2013
TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTHEAST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
TONIGHT…A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHEAST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.
SATURDAY…SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.
SATURDAY NIGHT…AREAS OF FOG THROUGH MIDNIGHT. RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN RAIN AND SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. BREEZY. LITTLE OR NO SNOW ACCUMULATION. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 20 MPH INCREASING TO NORTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 80 PERCENT.
SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN AND SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY…COLDER. HIGH IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW 15 TO 20. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Pete Kozma and Daniel Descalso each homered and the St. Louis Cardinals, set to play the whole season without All-Star shortstop Rafael Furcal, beat the New York Yankees 7-6 Thursday. Hours earlier, the Cardinals said Furcal will undergo ligament replacement surgery in his right elbow and expects to miss the year. Kozma, Furcal’s likely replacement, hit a solo home run in the fifth inning and also singled. Descalso, who could also see time at short, hit a two-run homer in the seventh. The Cardinals were without outfielder Matt Holliday, who had a stomach virus. Yankees starter Ivan Nova allowed one run in three innings. St. Louis scored three times in the ninth. Kolton Wong hit a tying, two-run homer and a pair of errors set up Adron Chambers’ winning single.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Hines scored 16 points and Drake defeated Bradley 81-66 Thursday in the opener of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The ninth-seeded Bulldogs (15-16) earned a quarterfinal game against regular-season champion Creighton on Friday. Joey King scored 15 and Gary Ricks added 14 points for Drake. The Bulldogs led by as many as 17 points in the first half, though the Braves scored the last eight of the half to cut Drake’s lead at the break to 41-32.
Bradley (16-16) got within three with 6½ minutes left, but Drake went on a 13-0 run to put it out of reach in St. Louis, Missouri. Jake Eastman had 15 points and eight rebounds for the eighth-seeded Braves. Will Egolf also scored 15 points, Walt Lemon Jr. scored 14 and Tyshon Pickett added 11 for Bradley, which improved nine games from last season’s 7-25 finish.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
FAIRBANK, Iowa (AP) — A 4-year-old northeast Iowa girl was flown to an Iowa City hospital after she was struck by a pickup. Authorities say Edna Raber of rural Fairbank ran into a street while playing with other children around 4 p.m. Wednesday. The little girl was taken to Mercy Hospital in Oelwein (OHL-wyne) and then flown to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A University of Iowa physician has been accused of drunken driving and lying to officers about her identity. Decontee Fletcher was arrested after police responded to a vehicle crashing early Wednesday into some trees. Fletcher was found sitting in the passenger seat. Fletcher is a clinical assistant professor in the neurology clinic at the University of Iowa.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa says an administrative assistant who is the future son-in-law of Coach Kirk Ferentz will no longer report to the football program to avoid nepotism concerns. Athletic director Gary Barta said yesterday that Tyler Barnes would now be supervised by Rick Klatt, who oversees the department’s marketing and media relations. He said Barnes had been a model employee, but the change in supervision was necessary because Barnes is planning to marry Ferentz’s 25-year-old daughter in July.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Hines scored 16 points and Drake defeated Bradley 81-66 yesterday in the opener of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The ninth-seeded Bulldogs earned a quarterfinal game against regular-season champion Creighton today in St. Louis.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa says an administrative assistant who is the future son-in-law of Coach Kirk Ferentz will no longer report to the football program to avoid nepotism concerns. Athletic director Gary Barta said Thursday that Tyler Barnes would now be supervised by Rick Klatt, who oversees the department’s marketing and media relations. He said Barnes had been a model employee, but the change in supervision was necessary because Barnes is planning to marry Ferentz’s 25-year-old daughter in July.
The announcement comes after The Gazette reported Ferentz didn’t disclose the relationship earlier to Barta. University records show that Ferentz last fall sought and received permission to extend Barnes’ temporary position for a second year through Jan. 2014. Barta says a university review will determine Barnes’ “long-term employment options.”