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COVID-19 and its impact on meatpacking workers, the future of mask mandates in schools and the campaign trails emerging for 2022 are all stories that IPR will continue to follow into the new year.
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Natural disasters transform the landscape. Residents of Waterloo, Davenport and Cedar Rapids reflect on work to adapt their towns for a future of more intense, more frequent floods.
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A lawsuit aimed at creating mandatory water quality regulations to reduce farm pollution in the Raccoon River will not proceed after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the case asked the courts to infringe on the powers of the legislature.
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Water quality is one of the greatest environmental challenges in the state of Iowa. There are many sources of pollution and finding and implementing…
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The floodwaters have largely receded in Davenport, weeks after the Mississippi River crested at its highest level on record and flooded parts of downtown.…
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The National Weather Service is raising certain flood stage categories along parts of the Iowa River. The revisions are intended to ensure flood warnings…
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Cedar Rapids officials have adopted a plan to fund permanent flood protection in the city. Ten years after historic floods battered the city, its leaders…