DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 9 -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news on Nov. 8, 2023: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that Google, through a grant to the Iowa Nutrient Research and Education Council (INREC), will provide $150,000 in funding to support ongoing Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship-led "batch and build" water quality projects that are in progress across Iowa. Iowa's innovative "batch and build" model   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 9 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird took action to defend the State's Heartbeat Law in the Iowa Supreme Court, which protects unborn life once a doctor can detect a baby's heartbeat. In July, Governor Kim Reynolds called a special session to pass the Heartbeat Law and defend unborn life -and did so with an even larger majority than in 2018. But before Governor Reynolds had   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 9 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2023: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird on Friday led a 19-state coalition in challenging the Biden Administration for illegally allowing California to ban traditional gas or diesel trucks. In June, Attorney General Bird sued the Biden Administration over its scheme that gives California the authority to force most buses, vans, trucks, and tractor-trailers to be electric by 2035. The   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 9 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a 23-state coalition supporting a California mother after her school district hid her daughter's gender transition from her, clearly violating her parental rights. Aurora Regino, a California mother, sued the Chico Unified School District for violating her constitutional rights when district officials allowed her daughter to sociall  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 9 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following statement on Nov. 8, 2023: * * * Gov. Reynolds released the following statement in response to a brief filed today with the Iowa Supreme Court seeking to uphold the Fetal Heartbeat Law: "The people of Iowa and their elected representatives have spoken clearly and by a wider margin than before: it's time for the Fetal Heartbeat Law to be upheld once and for all. "The injunction placed on Iowa's Fetal Heartbeat Law has  more

AMES, Iowa, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: When a hurricane-like derecho knocked down corn plants across Iowa in August 2020, it was devastating for farmers. But it also presented a natural experiment for an Iowa State University research team, which fanned out across flattened fields in the days after the storm to record how crops held up. High winds caused widespread lodging, which happens when a corn plant's stalk breaks or its roots fail to keep  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 9 -- The Iowa Utilities Board issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) issued an order today that sets a scheduling conference to discuss a proposed procedural schedule and public hearing date for Alliant Energy-Interstate Power and Light Company's (Alliant-IPL) proposed application for a revision in customers' electric and natural gas customer rates. The scheduling conference will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, November 21, 2023, in t  more

HANNIBAL, Missouri, Nov. 9 -- The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission issued the following news on Nov. 7, 2023: During its regular meeting on November 1, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission awarded the following contracts for seal coat, resurfacing, bridge rehabilitation, concrete pavement repairs and pavement marking projects in the Northeast District. * A $14M contract was awarded to Emery Sapp & Sons, Inc. for resurfacing projects in Adair and Schuyler counties   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 9 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the project "Measuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity in Healthcare Organizations." Working with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) and the University of Iowa, a team of experts will leverage   more