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The annual fundraiser will be held in person this year, after converting to a drive-in event last year during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Have you no shame?’ Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning. -0:00 ‘The 21st-Century Jim Crow Assault Is Real,’ Biden Says President Biden spoke out forcefully against Republican efforts to curtail voting rights across the country and vowed that his administration would seek to limit their impact. Some things in America should be simple and straightforward. Perhaps the most important of those things, the most fundamental of those things, is the right to vote. The right to vote freely. The democratic threshold is liberty. With it, anything’s possible without i...

Iowa voting rights activist considers run for Iowa governor By DAVID PITTJuly 12, 2021 GMT FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2019 file photo, former Democratic candidate for Iowa Secretary of State Deidre DeJear speaks during a news conference, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. DeJear said Monday, July 12, 2021, she is considering a run for Iowa governor. DeJear, a Democrat, announced formation of an exploratory committee and a tour of seven Iowa cities this week to discuss the idea with Iowans. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2019 file photo, former Democratic candidat...

SPM NEWS 7.12.21 Governors from all three Siouxland States spent the day at the Tri-State Governors’ Conference. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts, and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem met at the Marriot Riverfront in South Sioux City. The event hosted by the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce focused on shortage of workers in the region and addressed the impact of COVID-19. Governor Reynolds was then scheduled to tour the Arena Sports Academy in Sioux City. Agreements between Iowa and Texas show Iowa is donating the use of state troopers and their equipment at "no cos...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will serve 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.