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By Jeff Angelo Jan 29, 2021 After talking to Wendy Wilde about the latest snowfall totals projected for the weekend, Jeff discusses a comment by a State Senator that the GOP push for in-classroom learning amounts to political payback; listeners discuss how their school districts have handled the pandemic; Alan Ostergren reveals some disturbing information while researching why the Des Moines School District denies open enrollment requests. Click below to listen to hour one of Need To Know With Jeff Angelo for Friday, January 29, 2021. Need To Know is heard LIVE weekdays at 9 am CT on 1040 WH...

Also Monday, Alan Ostergren, attorney for Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, issued the following statement in response to the comments made by Elias.  “No amount of partisan spin can change the fact that the precedents of the House of Representatives require a contestant to first present her claims under state law," he said. "The Iowans in the Second Congressional District should not be denied their elected representative because Rita Hart cannot accept the fact that she lost.” Hart says she knows the ballots have not been counted because they weren't considered in the first recoun...

The district says a privacy setting was "inadvertently changed" in February 2020. Author: Rachel Droze Updated: 5:15 PM CST January 28, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines Public Schools identified several alleged assault and bullying victims on its website. Seven documents published on the district's site included names and descriptions of students requesting transfers to different school districts. Some of the descriptions identified bullying, assault and even one rape victim by name. Within a half-hour of Local 5 emailing the district, the documents were re...

By Kate Payne/Iowa Public Radio News • Jan 26, 2021 An attorney for former state Sen. Rita Hart is expressing confidence in the campaign's case before the U.S. House challenging the election results in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District. A lawyer for former Democratic state Sen. Rita Hart is expressing confidence in the campaign's case before the U.S. House challenging the election results in southeast Iowa's 2nd Congressional District. Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who was provisionally seated in the chamber after state officials certified the results, is...

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Attorney for Hart says appeal to U.S. House is proper Rita Hart An attorney for Democratic U.S. House candidate Rita Hart is defending Hart’s decision to appeal her six vote defeat in last November’s election to a U.S. House committee, rather than through the Iowa court system. Marc Elias says Hart’s decision to skip the Iowa courts will not set a bad precedent. ” I just don’t think that’s true. I think that the House remains a forum for contests where there are extremely close elections and where it is the most logical and fairest venue for them to b...