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Several hundred people gathered at Drake University Monday morning for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day prayer breakfast. The annual event honors…
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A Polk County judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a law that would allow organizations using public insurance dollars – like Medicaid – to…
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A senior official at the Department of Human Services testified in a federal court in Des Moines Wednesday that the state agency has been working to…
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A clinical psychologist said the use of solitary confinement and a physical restraint device at a state-run school for deliquent teenage boys "falls way…
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An official at a state-run school for delinquent teenage boys testified in federal court Monday that the use of an isolation chamber and physical…
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A state-run school for delinquent teenage boys has failed to meet professional standards for treating and screening mental illness, according to expert…
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This year has been a political roller coaster for the state’s transgender population. A March state Supreme Court decision overturned a ban on using state…
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The ACLU of Iowa has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a law that denies transgender Iowans on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery. The…
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This post was updated Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 2:48 p.m.Republicans at the Iowa Capitol voted Friday and Saturday to ban publicly-funded health…
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Only 11 sites in Iowa are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as having played an important role in African American history. The State…