MILWAUKEE — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke to the Iowa Republican Party Wednesday on the terrace of an Italian-style villa overlooking Lake Michigan, possibly showing his interest in another bid for the presidency. During his 10 minutes of remarks, DeSantis, who unsuccessfully challenged Donald Trump for the nomination this year, praised the policies that […]

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Searching for traces of Vance in his ancestral home takes you down winding blacktop through the deep shade of creeksides, past bright fields of Queen Anne’s lace and bottomland plots of  corn. It takes you onto people’s porches to ask directions, where, contrary to popular stereotype, an approaching stranger is no big deal

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An Iowa nursing home worker was fired recently amid allegations that he was too honest with inspectors. In a separate case, a worker was fired after being accused of instructing a co-worker to lie to state inspectors. According to state records, University Park Nursing and Rehabilitation fired Jason King as the facility’s full-time maintenance director […]

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Sen. Joe Griffo has been touring Rome and Canastota, two of the hardest-hit areas by Tuesday’s severe storm.

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According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, nearly 185,000 veterans who receive health care from VA centers have been diagnosed with at least one traumatic brain injury.

OSKALOOSA, Iowa — Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies, and many more places to give birth to them. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000. Those facilities, representing about a third of all Iowa hospitals, are located mostly in […]

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Rick Saccone marched on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, posting photos and video to Facebook from outside as a violent mob ransacked the building, aiming to stop the certification of then-President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. This week, the former state lawmaker from Elizabeth Township is attending another, […]

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Here in Allegheny County, we see only the most bare-bones forms of inclusion and integration of those directly impacted by schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, whether in county and city policy contexts, civic life more broadly, or the training and education of counselors, social workers and other system providers.

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