Poultry producers in Iowa are pushing for vaccine protection for their birds this fall. Both the state and the feds have held back on recommending anti-bird-flu shots, because of potential repercussions from importers. But farmers are afraid that without the vaccine, any money they spend restocking their flocks could be wasted.… MORE
Being the former governor of a state that borders Mexico, one of the messages Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry conveys to crowds and reporters is that he wants to fix the illegal immigration problem by securing the border. While addressing the Iowa State Fair audience on the soapbox stage on Wednesday,the former governor of Texas again…… MORE
More than 12-thousand ISU students are moving in to campus today before the start of the new fall semester. Ames police are warning drivers around Ames there could be a shortage of parking spaces, as parents and students unload. A landlord company near another major Iowa university is appealing a state Supreme Court decision that…… MORE
A group of Iowa landowners are suing the state board of utilities, saying it has no authority to grant Dakota Access permission to go on private property for its proposed oil pipeline. The suit says the oil company is not an Iowa utility, so it cannot use such options.… MORE
Despite at times heavy downpours and cooler temperatures, dozens of voters turned out to hear Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio have his turn on the Des Moines Register’s soapbox on Tuesday morning. Rubio began his campaign speech by thanking the crowd for coming out with umbrellas to hear him, and he promised he would make…… MORE
The keys to the 4-billion dollar Medicaid program in Iowa are being turned over by the governor to four private companies, starting the first of the year. The decision marks a key point in Governor Branstad’s transformation of the healthcare program for the poor and disabled that serves more than half-a-million Iowans. Iowa workers would…… MORE
The City of West Des Moines is trying to motivate companies to be part of the Home Base Iowa program. The program provides incentives and job opportunities for transitioning military members and vets returning to the state. City officials would like to pull in enough employers by fall to get a Home Base Iowa designation…… MORE
The bird flu epidemic in Iowa cost the state’s economy one-point-2 billion dollars, according to the latest tally from the Iowa Farm Bureau. The bureau says recovery will not be swift, since half of Iowa’s poultry population was lost to the virus. … MORE
by Sarah Beckman, 98.3 the Torch Dozens of protesters, both from local groups and from out of state, gathered in front of the Des Moines Register’s Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair on Monday to rally at GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker’s stump speech. Many sported anti-Walker signs and cheese-head hats to represent his state…… MORE
Three presidential candidates will be hopping on the Register Soapbox today at the Iowa State Fair. Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina and Lindsey Graham will stump for the nation’s top job. Marco Rubio and John Kasich will be there tomorrow. Donald Trump did NOT get on the soapbox over the weekend, but he did take advantage…… MORE
