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Dozens of Iowa residents, lawmakers and environmental groups want the state's natural resources director to review a decision to allow a cattle feedlot near an environmentally sensitive creek in northeast Iowa. Along with 47 state lawmakers, residents and groups representing environmental, fishing, water quality and outdoor interests filed the request Tuesday. They are mostly from Iowa, but also include interests from Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. They want Kayla Lyon, director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, to order a departmental evaluation of the Sup...

Speakers for 2021 commercial real estate expo announced Wednesday, May 12, 2021 9:00 AM Keynote speakers for the 2021 Iowa Commercial Real Estate Expo include KC Conway, principal of Red Shoe Economics, Matt Higgins, co-founder and CEO of the private investment firm RSE Ventures, and Elizabeth Holland, CEO of Merle Hay Investors, owners of Merle Hay Mall. The expo will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Ron Pearson Center, 5820 Westown Parkway in West Des Moines. Tickets are $125 through July 31; they will cost $150 beginning Aug. 1. The expo, first...

Huntington’s Disease Society’s Iowa chapter to host walk fundraiser on May 22 Wednesday, May 12, 2021 2:41 PM The Iowa Chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America will host the Des Moines Team Hope Walk on May 22 at 8:30 a.m. at Raccoon River Park in West Des Moines, along with a virtual component. All proceeds support HDSA’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by Huntington’s disease and their families. Team Hope is HDSA’s largest national grassroots fundraising event, which takes place in over 100 cities across the U.S. an...

Lisa Schulte Moore 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS My goal is to make a difference and have fun doing it. My depth training and experience is in landscape ecology and natural resource management, particularly as applied to agricultural, forest, and avian ecology, although I also draw strongly upon the social sciences in my work. Iowa has been home since 2003, but I spent the early part of my career studying forests in the Great Lakes region. Along with my family, I am co-owner of our diversified family ...

By Jason Taylor Apr 13, 2021 DES MOINES, IA - The Iowa Chapter of The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives wants a thorough investigation into a former Des Moines officer. The group is calling comments by former Sgt. Greg Wessels extremely inflammatory. It also says the comments insinuated extreme racial violence against a command staff member of color. Wessels resigned last week after the department launched an investigation into his comments and placed him on admirative leave. Wessels was part of a $75,000 lawsuit settlement last year after being accused of using pepp...