Jackson Valenti

1 week ago | kwqc.com | Jackson Valenti

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Governor Reynolds says changes to SNAP will promote healthy eating and protect future generations from disease. It would remove foods including soda and candy from SNAP, anything that people currently pay sales tax for at the grocery store. The question is, are people on SNAP actually buying the unhealthy foods being taking out of the program?

2 weeks ago | ktiv.com | Jackson Valenti

PEOSTA, Iowa (KCRG) - A new law aims to stop bad actors from using artificial intelligence in harmful ways. The ‘Take It Down Act’ would take measures to stop people from using AI to make non-consensual pornography. Last month Western Dubuque said it was investigating after students used AI to make fake nude images of female classmates. Wednesday parents from that district attended a presentation on AI to see how the new law might help, and to learn proper safeguards to use with AI.

2 weeks ago | ktiv.com | Jackson Valenti

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - The next generation of doctors in Iowa graduated this evening, but most of them are leaving the state. It’s partly because there aren’t enough spots to continue their training at hospitals in the state. Friday 163 people graduated from the University of Iowa’s medical school, but only 40 of them are spending their residencies in Iowa. A bill heading to the governor’s desk will make it easier for new graduates to stay in the state.

3 weeks ago | ktiv.com | Jackson Valenti

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - At least two school districts in the Cedar Rapids area are warning families about a social media trend of jamming objects into the charging port of school-issued computers, damaging or destroying them. Pretty much every high schooler TV9 talked to had at least seen the trend on TikTok, but it doesn’t only exist in social media. Multiple school districts in the area have already warned parents about the damage the trend is causing.

3 weeks ago | ktiv.com | Jackson Valenti

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Some Iowa pharmacies say they’re on the verge of closing, and they’re putting their hopes on a bill advancing to the governor’s desk. Senate Bill 383 would regulate the middlemen who control the cost of some drugs for pharmacies. If a pharmacy accepts patient insurance, and nearly all patients use insurance, then they have to work with middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers. The Iowa Pharmacy Association blames those middlemen for forcing pharmacies to close.