Iowa’s Board of Regents ---meeting in Ames today---will be setting tuition at the three state universities. Today’s vote –hiking undergraduate ….. tuition three-point-nine-percent---at the University of Iowa and Iowa State is nearly a full-percent more than Regents last November were predicting last November. But …that was contingent on state legislators appropriating 18-million dollars to the Regents. But they’re receiving six-million less. Even so…Regent Milt Dakovich…says he likes the Board’s

060519 504 A food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people a month in Sioux City is being evicted because the building it operates from has been sold. The Midtown Family Community Center houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and a 4-H program. Boys and Girls Home Inc. owns the building and had allowed the community center to use the building rent-free. But the building was sold last month. the grant funding the center receives provides only food for the pantry and Saturday meal. She

060519 432 A Sioux City food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people a month is being evicted because the building it operates from has been sold. The Midtown Family Community Center houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and a 4-H program. Boys and Girls Home Inc. owns the building and had allowed the community center to use the building rent-free. But the building was sold last month. Boys and Girls Home is moving its programs to a centralized campus at the site of the former Indian

060519 404 Officials say a food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people a month in Sioux City is being evicted because the building it operates from has been sold. The Midtown Family Community Center houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and a 4-H program. Janet Reynolds of the Jones Street Neighborhood Coalition says the center's closure will be a "huge loss for the community." Boys and Girls Home Inc. owns the building and had allowed the community center to use the building rent

A Sioux City food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people each month is being evicted from the building where it has operated for the last 11 years. The Midtown Family Community Center, which houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and the Urban 4-H program, will be forced to close due to the recent sale of its the building at 14th and Nebraska streets, said Janet Reynolds, president of the Jones Street Neighborhood Coalition. Boys and Girls Home, Inc., which had allowed the community

The Lewis and Clark Festival takes place at Lewis and Clark State Park near Onawa Iowa Friday, June 7 th through Saturday the 9 th . The event celebrates early American heritage and transports people back in time to the early 1800’s. One of the characters bringing this history back to life shared insight on the art of buck skinning with Siouxland Public Media. Richard Rose from Dunlap, Iowa is an expert in the Native American art of brain tanning. Rose is a reenactor who is passionate about

060419 532 Republican Governor Kim Reynolds says she’ll tell President Trump she’s concerned about his threat to put new tariffs on all products from Mexico when he visits Iowa next week. President Trump says all goods coming into the United States from Mexico will be hit with new tariffs next week unless Mexico stops the flow of migrants crossing the southern border. Reynolds says she’ll tell Trump it’s critical to focus instead on ratifying a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, Iowa’s top

060419 504 Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says she’s grateful the U-S Congress has finally approved a 19-billion-dollar disaster aid package that includes money for Iowa communities affected by flooding. Floodwaters devastated western Iowa in mid-March, and floods have been affecting more and more of the state since then. Reynolds says officials haven’t been able to get a complete damage assessment yet. 0604reynolds2: 10 “This is a good start, but I think as you continue to see catastrophic

Missouri River Edit | Remove 060419 432 After many delays, Congress has passed a large disaster aid package with help for communities nationwide, including many in Iowa that are recovering from major flooding. Iowa Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says some on-farm losses not automatically covered by disaster aid now will be eligible. 0604grassleyaid That included my amendment to add on-farm storage grain, so they can qualify for disaster. You’ve seen the burst grain bins. This is the

060419 404 Governor Kim Reynolds says she’s grateful the U-S Congress has finally approved a 19-billion-dollar disaster aid package that includes money for Iowa communities affected by flooding. Floodwaters devastated western Iowa in mid-March, and floods have been affecting more and more of the state since then. Reynolds says officials haven’t been able to get a complete damage assessment yet. 0604reynolds2: 10 “This is a good start, but I think as you continue to see catastrophic disasters