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Eliza Billingham

Reporter · US

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Eliza Billingham

    Immigration advocates, politicians call to stay third-country deportation of eastern Iowa hospital worker (opens the original)

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    An Iowa City woman was detained on Sept. 24 by unmarked officers on her way to work at a University of Iowa hospital. Fatou Traore is an Ivory Coast native who’s been in Iowa City for two decades. Her family said she has no criminal history and was granted a withholding of removal from Ivory Coast — that is, legal protection from being sent back to that country. She’s now in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding facility in Louisiana and faces imminent deportation to Sierra Le

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Eliza Billingham

    Here's what Iowans can — and can't — do about hyperscale data centers (opens the original)

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    Green T-shirts with “No Data Centers” written in big block letters have become a common sight at Clinton City Hall. For weeks, the grassroots group Clintonians Against Data Centers has bird-dogged city council meetings as the industrial community on the Mississippi River tries to write a data center ordinance. Developer QTS is eyeing Clinton for a $10-billion data center campus. Opponents are demanding city leaders address their concerns about water use, air pollution and noise. “We are not agai

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Eliza Billingham

    Trump announces $15B steel plant coming to eastern Iowa (opens the original)

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    President Donald Trump on Monday announced an $18 billion investment in a fully integrated American steel system, including a major steel plant coming to southeast Iowa's Lee County. The $15 billion plant will be built by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota-based company belonging to the Indian conglomerate Essar Group. The other $3 billion will help complete Mesabi’s new mine in Minnesota’s Iron Range, which will supply iron ore to the Iowa steel plant. “With the new steel complex in Iowa, we will co

  4. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Eliza Billingham

    Endangered bumblebee sighting in Iowa signals a win for local conservation (opens the original)

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    A new rusty patched bumblebee sighting in Marion signals that habitat conservation efforts could be helping the federally endangered species. Monarch Research, a nonprofit in Linn County, works to incorporate native habitat in rural and urban settings. Research Station Manager Danielle Holthaus said those efforts benefit a lot of pollinators — not just monarch butterflies. “A few weeks ago, as our team was wrapping up, just typical end of day chores at the research station, I noticed that there

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Eliza Billingham

    U.S. Department of Energy loans $1.9B to help restart Duane Arnold nuclear plant (opens the original)

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    The U.S. Department of Energy will loan NextEra Energy up to $1.9 billion to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant near Cedar Rapids. Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly visited rural Linn County to announce the loan, which is the final piece of financing the energy center needs. He called the recommissioning an early example of an American "nuclear renaissance.” “This is part of the larger strategy that the administration has following President Trump's executive orders to quadruple the tot

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