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‘a loaded gun in every aisle’: Hy-Vee is introducing a new retail security team
By adria Carpenter, Jan. 4, 2022 The shoulder patches say, “A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle,” but the police-style uniforms, complete with belts with holstered taser and possibly handguns, may send a very different message as Hy-Vee deploys a new retail security team in its stores. The program will roll out throughout 2022, but security teams are already present in some stores.
Former rep. Jim Leach breaks with the republican Party, endorses Bohannan for House and Franken for Senate
By Paul Brennan, July 28, 2022 Jim Leach, who represented Johnson County and much of southeastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years as a Republican, changed his party registration to Democrat ahead of the June 7 primary, the Quad City Times reported on Wednesday. “The Republican Party has just torn itself apart, and it’s got to pull itself together. I’ll lean toward the Democratic Party as long as excellent people are running.”
Before I-235, Des Moines’ Center Street district was a bastion of Black commerce and culture
By Paul Brennan and Courtney Guein, april 8, 2022 By the time its final section opened to traffic in late 1968, I-235 was already part of the fabric of Des Moines. Cutting across the city and running just north of downtown, it’s the most traveled roadway in Iowa. But its devastating impact on a community of color was largely ignored at the time, and for decades after.
Forty years after the Johnny Gosch disappearance, fear continues to fuel conspiracy theories in Iowa and beyond
By Emma McClatchey, Sept. 7, 2022 Amid the new 24-hour news cycle of the ’80s, fear of child abduction coalesced into a moral panic nationwide. In central Iowa, the unsolved abductions of three paperboys, in particular 12-year-old Johnny Gosch, bred paranoia, misinformation and interstate conspiracy theories that have only multiplied over the decades.
