Kalen McCain
News Reporter at Southeast Iowa Union
News Reporter at Clarion Plainsman
Reporter for The Southeast Iowa Union, Policy Debate Coach for ICCSD, and forbidden lover of the Oxford comma. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
southeastiowaunion.com | Kalen McCain |Erin Murphy
Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — Emergency response officials are warning about the potential impacts of legislation passed in the final moments of this year’s session and are asking Gov. Kim Reynolds to veto a provision. The policy was attached to Senate File 659, the catchall “standings” budget bill in literally the final minutes of a 21-hour final day of the 2025 session of the Iowa Legislature.
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1 week ago |
southeastiowaunion.com | Kalen McCain
Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. AINSWORTH — A stretch of Iowa Highway 92 between Ainsworth and Columbus Junction will close for a second round of extensive construction, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Fairfield office.
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1 week ago |
southeastiowaunion.com | Kalen McCain
Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. WASHINGTON — An asphalt overlay project on B Avenue in Washington this summer will expend all of Washington’s annual funding for pavement improvements, after the low bid came in above-budget.
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1 week ago |
southeastiowaunion.com | Kalen McCain
Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. WASHINGTON — Whether for Zoom connections, assignment grades, or adult life in general, the Washington High School Class of 2025 is done waiting. That was the tone of the school’s commencement Sunday afternoon, where graduating speakers focused not only on the shared events that tied their academic careers together, but on the way they experienced those events in the moments they happened.
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1 week ago |
southeastiowaunion.com | Kalen McCain
Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. WASHINGTON — Washington school board members are considering changes to the district’s cellphone policies in light of a new state law that makes them enforceable. The legislation, House File 782, was signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds late last month. It requires schools to ban electronic devices during instructional time, citing teachers who say they’re a consistent distraction in the classroom.
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Late update, but I won the Iowa Newspaper Association's Harrison “Skip” Weber Investigative Reporting Award a few weeks ago, the group's highest honor for investigative journalism. Don't know if I've ever been more proud! https://t.co/iw3046ZA0H https://t.co/9Z3QNSJAmT
RT @calebmcculIough: Today, Iowa lawmakers sang the national anthem in a subcommittee on a bill that would require it to be sung each day i…
RT @ErinDMurphy: Here's a fun feature story on a Washington, Iowa, man who has had presidential candidates sign baseballs. From @brittneyjm…
