Iowa State corner T.J. Tampa says most of the progress he made in the off-season was away from the field. Tampa started all 12 games last season in earning second team All-Big 12 honors. He has been focused on strength and condition as well as nutrition.
Tampa says his approach to nutrition is much different than past years.
As he prepares for his final season Tampa is taking on more of a leadership role.
The 25th ranked Iowa baseball team will be in bounce back mode getting ready for the start of Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes had their 10 game winning streak snapped Tuesday night with a 5-3 loss at Illinois State. Iowa pitchers walked five batters and hit three in falling to 19-4 on the season.
That’s Iowa coach Rick Heller. The Hawkeyes host preseason favorite Maryland in a three game series beginning Friday. The starting rotation is set and Heller says a key will be the Hawkeye bullpen.
Pitching will be crucial against a Maryland team that has slugged 47 home runs in a 15-9 start.
Maryland ranks 18th nationally in homers and is averaging nearly nine runs per game.
Heller says against power hitting teams limiting walks is a must.
(Radio Iowa)- Business owners in Mount Pleasant say the closure of Iowa Wesleyan University announced Tuesday is going to be felt around the entire community. Roger Beckman and his brother Dale have owned Main Street Pizza in downtown Mount Pleasant for 32 years. Beckman tells K-C-R-G TV about 20 percent of his business comes from the students. “We have some students that come once or twice a week,” School leaders say there are around 800 students enrolled at the university and 110 staff.
Beckman hopes if any good news was to come out of Wesleyan shutting down, that the building could be repurposed for the community. “Hopefully, they won’t want to hold onto it and let the cobwebs grow,” said Beckman. “Hopefully, something good will come out of it.”
The U-S-D-A helped the school refinance to try to turn things around, but they continued to face financial issues. The U-S-D-A ill take ownership of the campus at the end of the school year in June.
(Radio Iowa) – A bill that would have set a few new ground rules for carbon pipelines has stalled in the Senate. Representative Steven Holt, a Republican from Denison, led debate of the bill in the House, where it passed on a 73-to-20 vote. “The legislation’s one of the most important things we could have done this session,” Holt says.
The bill would have required that 90 percent of a carbon pipeline’s route be secured through voluntary agreements before eminent domain authority from the state could be used to compel other landowners to sign easements. “A lot of concerned citizens across the state of Iowa do not want their property taken for this project — an economic development project and I’m disappointed,” Holt says.
Today (Thursday) is the last day of the legislature’s work week and also the deadline for policy bills from the House to have cleared a Senate committee. Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls of Coralville says Republicans who control the senate’s debate agenda could have at least scheduled a subcommittee hearing on the bill. “I think that if the bill would have come to the floor, it would have had strong majority support,” Wahls says, “so I was surprised.”
It’s possible some of the elements of the bill could be tacked onto a budget bill next month. There’s also a chance state regulators’ review of the pipeline projects might extend into early 2024. Holt says that means it might be possible for next year’s legislature to revisit the issue. “Dynamics can change around here very quickly around here when it’s an election year and people begin to hear a lot from their constituents, so we’ll see where it goes.” Holt says, “My concern about waiting a year, obviously, is that eminent domain could already be in process for some of our land owners, but maybe the process will not be that far along, so we’ll see.”
The proposed Wolf pipeline to capture carbon from A-D-M plants is about 300 miles long and the developer says it’s getting voluntary access to the route and will not need to seek eminent domain authority. The other pipeline developers are expected to ask the Iowa Utilities Board for eminent domain authority to secure easements from landowners who haven’t voluntarily granted access to their properties. Navigator’s pipeline would stretch about 800 miles through 33 Iowa counties.
The Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline would be about 680 miles long and pass through 29 counties. Advocates say the pipelines will make ethanol a low-carbon fuel by capturing and shipping carbon from Iowa ethanol plants to underground storage sites in Illinois and North Dakota.
(March 29, 2023) – Officials with Diamond Vogel and Keep Iowa Beautiful, Wednesday, announced the grant awards for the 2023 Paint Iowa Beautiful program. The program provides free paint to a wide variety of public service projects throughout Iowa. In the 20-year partnership with Keep Iowa Beautiful, Diamond Vogel has awarded over 13,270 gallons of paint for 1,438 community projects in Iowa.
In addition to paint projects, join over 30 communities participating in Keep Iowa Beautiful’s Pick Up Iowa annual program by cleaning up litter and trash along Iowa’s roadsides, neighborhoods, streets, school grounds, parks, and streams. Encourage your community mayor, city council or county supervisors to announce several days or a week as PICK-UP YOUR COMMUNITY. Pick-Up Iowa is being held through July 31st, 2023 on any dates that work for your community. To participate you must register your group/organization at https://keepiowabeautiful.org/get-involved/community-outreach-opportunities/pick-up-iowa/. The first 35 communities who sign up will be awarded a $50 reimbursement that can be utilized to purchase supplies for the pick-up event.
2023 Paint Awards (local list):
(By Community; Organization name; Areas to be painted; Name of person submitting)
(Atlantic, Iowa) – Public Hearings were held Wednesday at the Atlantic High School Media Center, with regard to a five-year extension of the current Instructional Support Levy (ISL). A second hearing was with regard to the 2023-24 School Calendar. There were no comments submitted during the meeting. The Board took action to approve both matters later on during their session. The School Board also approved pay application number #3 for the High School Air Quality Project for $116,825.00.
The Board also set their meeting on April 12th at 5:30-p.,m., as the date and time for a Public Hearing on the Certified Budget. The proposed property tax rate for the 2024 budget is $13.00317 per one thousand dollars of valuation. You can view the budget as published, below.
The Board approved several resignations, including:
They approved contract recommendations that had been proposed by Superintendent Steve Barber, including:
DALLAS — University of Iowa junior Caitlin Clark is the recipient of the 2023 Naismith Trophy, the most prestigious individual basketball honor presented annually to women’s college basketball’s most outstanding player. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Eric Oberman, Atlanta Tipoff Club executive director.
“Winning this award is a huge accomplishment,” Clark said. “This is such a huge honor for our family and program. None of this would be possible without my tremendous support system. I was to thank Lisa Bluder and her staff for giving me the opportunity to play basketball at the University of Iowa. It is place I have thrived in since I stepped on campus.”
The most dominant player in women’s college basketball, Clark has already been recognized as the Big Ten Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, as well as The Athletic National Player of the Year. A unanimous first team Associated Press and All-Big Ten honoree, Clark also excels in the classroom being voted the 2023 Academic All-American of the Year. Clark is also a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award, Wade Trophy, Ann Meyers Drysdale, Dawn Staley and Nancy Lieberman awards.
Clark has captivated audiences with her style of play, posting unprecedented numbers of 984 points, 311 assists, 262 rebounds, 127 three-pointers, 56 steals and 20 blocks in leading the Hawkeyes to a historic season. She is the first Division I women’s basketball player to record more than 900 points and 300 assists in the same season. Her 984 points are second most in a single season in Big Ten history (1,001 by Gustafson in 2019).
The West Des Moines, Iowa, native has registered +25 points, +5 rebounds and +5 assists in 18 games this year (most in Division I) and 40 times in her career; most in NCAA women’s basketball history.
Clark leads the nation’s best offense averaging 27.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 8.6 assists per game. She accounts for 57 percent of Iowa’s offensive output in points and assists.
She leads Division I in several statistical categories including assists per game (8.6), three-pointers made (127), and triple-doubles (5). She has scored 30 or more points in 12 games, including three 40-point performances. Clark broke Iowa’s junior single season records in scoring and assists. She also became the Big Ten single season statistical champion in assists (311).
In Iowa’s four NCAA Tournament games this March, Clark is averaging 30 points, 11 assists, 5.8 rebounds, 4.8 three-pointers and 2.5 steals.
In Iowa’s last outing against Louisville, Clark recorded her 11th career triple-double totaling 41 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds. She became the first player in NCAA Tournament history to record a 40-point triple-double. The 41-point performance ties for the third most points scored in NCAA Tournament Regional Final history. Her 41 points and eight 3-pointers made are Iowa NCAA Tournament single game records.
Clark is one of three Hawkeye recipients of the Naismith Trophy since 2019, and the second women’s player. Megan Gustafson was the 2019 honoree, while Luka Garza was chosen in 2021. Iowa is one of just six institutions to have both a men’s and women’s Naismith Trophy honoree (Duke, LSU, Notre Dame, Texas and Virginia).
Clark and the second-ranked Iowa women’s basketball team (30-6) will face top-ranked South Carolina (36-0) on Friday in the national semifinals at American Airlines Center in Dallas. Tipoff is scheduled for approximately 8:30 p.m. (CT). The game will be televised on ESPN and broadcast on the Hawkeye Radio Network.
The Rod Smith Co-Ed Invitational was held at Woodbine on Tuesday night. Official results from the meet were delayed due to a timing issue in one event due to lighting. Officials with the school released the results on Wednesday afternoon.
On the girls side Vanessa Koehler of Glidden-Ralston won the 100M, 200M, 100M Hurdles, and the High Jump. Tri-Center’s Isah VanArsdol won the 400M and 800M. The Trojans also won the Sprint Medley.
For the boys Brodyn Pryor of Woodbine won the 200M and 400M. Landon Bendgen won the 1600M and 3200M for the Tigers. CB Thomas Jefferson won the 4x100M Relay, 4x200M Relay, and 4x400M Relay.
Full results here: RodSmith2023Results
(Radio Iowa) – New property tax valuations are starting to go out and some people may suffer sticker shock when they see the increase. Sioux City Assessor, Tyler Erickson, says they have to do the valuations every two years to ensure valuations are within five percent of market value. “This state actually takes all of our sales and they tell us compared to last year’s values your sales are 25 percent undervalued. We have to raise those values. If we do not raise those values, the state will come in the fall and raise them all up,” Erickson says. He says they use to measure in determining your value.
“We use the cost approach and we use the sales approach,” Erickson says, “and the reason we use that is cost resale should fairly come out. We value off cost and then we adjust for the market that it sits in.” He says the market adjustment ensures your home is being valued based on the sale of homes in your neighborhood that are comparable in cost. Erickson says your taxes don’t automatically go up the same about as the assessed value because there is a state rollback.
“If you look at your tax statement that you get in the mail, you have an assessed value and you have a taxable value. That taxable value is after the state rollback and it is drastically less than your assessed value, usually about 50 percent. It’s expected to go up in the 60 percent range, mid 60s and possibly 70 percent range,” he says.
Erickson says they are already getting calls from upset homeowners after assessments went out. He says you can appeal and should look at the comparable home sales in your neighborhood to see how much difference there is between the valuation and area sales.
(Radio Iowa) – An Iowa-based group that aims to help farmers practice a form of agriculture that benefits both the land and the people is working to recruit new members, especially in northwest Iowa. Practical Farmers of Iowa agronomist Sarah Carlson says the issue of water quality is one key area where they’ve determined they can start discussions with potential members.
Carlson says crop rotation, cover crops, and grazing all help to reduce nitrate loss and reduce erosion, which are two of the biggest water pollutants. Some of the older concepts are still very much workable, especially with precision agriculture, which Carlson says has led to a new term, precision conservation.
She says P-F-I works with farmers to diagnose trouble spots, get them out of production and into some sort of conservation project.
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