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Oct 14, 2024 | 
communitynewspapergroup.com | Emily Boevers
Cancer. We all know someone, love someone, or are someone who has experienced it. Does it feel like you’re seeing more and more cancer affecting the people in your life? Well, you are. Reports released in 2019 placed Iowa at second in the country for the highest incident rate of new cancers – more new cases of diverse cancers in the same amount of time than 48 of the 50 other states. What is driving this?
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rick Morain |Laura Belin |Randy Evans |Emily Boevers
Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. Fifteen inches of rain in northwest Iowa. Unbelievable. We don’t have drenchers like that in this state. But we did. Most of us remember well the eight, nine, or ten inches (depending on whom you talk to) that fell on Greene County back in 1993, which flowed down the mighty Raccoon River to devastate Des Moines. Last week’s total near the state’s northwest corner puts that event to shame.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Randy Evans |Emily Boevers |Charles Bruner
Republicans currently enjoy large majorities of 64-36 in the Iowa House and 34-16 in the Iowa Senate. But seven Democrats got a boost last week from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which works to elect Democrats to state legislatures around the country. Iowa House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst joined the DLCC’s board of directors in January—a signal that the group is not giving up on Iowa, despite the losses over the past decade.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Emily Boevers |Charles Bruner |Kurt Meyer
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at [email protected]. You know how some memories stick with you for no logical reason? One such memory involves my dad in the 1960s when I was a teenager. After World War II, my father worked for the City of Bloomfield, eventually becoming operator of the city’s water treatment plant. Pop graduated from high school on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Emily Boevers |Charles Bruner |Kurt Meyer |Erin Farquhar
Dr. Emily Boevers is a OB-GYN physician practicing primarily in Waverly, Iowa. When not taking care of patients she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. This piece was first published in the Waverly newspapers. This coming week, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “Fetal Heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa legislature in six years.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
chronicletimes.com | Erin Rydgren |Emily Boevers
In the next 10 days, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “Fetal Heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa legislature in six years. It seeks to ban abortion at the instance of embryonic cardiac impulse at six weeks, well before most women know they are pregnant. The Supreme Court decision will either allow the ban to become law or permanently block it.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
mississippivalleypublishing.com | Emily Boevers
In the next 10 days, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “Fetal Heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa legislature in six years. It seeks to ban abortion at the instance of embryonic cardiac impulse at six weeks, well before most women know they are pregnant. The Supreme Court decision will either allow the ban to become law or permanently block it.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
communitynewspapergroup.com | Emily Boevers
In the next 10 days, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “Fetal Heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa legislature in six years. It seeks to ban abortion at the instance of embryonic cardiac impulse at six weeks, well before most women know they are pregnant. The Supreme Court decision will either allow the ban to become law or permanently block it.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
telegraphherald.com | Emily Boevers
In the coming days, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “fetal heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa Legislature in six years. It seeks to ban abortion at the instance of embryonic cardiac impulse at six weeks, well before most women know they are pregnant. The Supreme Court decision will either allow the ban to become law or permanently block it.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
stormlake.com | Jen Olson |Emily Boevers
In the next 10 days, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “Fetal Heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa legislature in six years. It seeks to ban abortion at the instance of embryonic cardiac impulse at six weeks, well before most women know they are pregnant. The Supreme Court decision will either allow the ban to become law or permanently block it.
