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Pepper Purpura

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Pepper Purpura

    Sand wraps town-hall tour as Lahn campaigns in Polk County (opens the original)

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    Rob Sand and Zach Lahn brought their campaigns for Iowa governor to Polk County Wednesday, with Sand completing his statewide town-hall tour and Lahn holding a rally in Grimes. Sand’s campaign said more than 1,000 people attended the event at Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines. It was the final stop on Sand’s 100-town-hall tour, which included events in all 99 Iowa counties. Dozens attended Lahn’s rally at Destination Grille. Lahn has visited all but 15 Iowa counties with about a month left unt

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Pepper Purpura

    Training talks begin as Iowa steel plant plan moves forward (opens the original)

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    The $15 billion plan announced Monday for a steel plant in Lee County could bring more than 1,700 jobs to southeast Iowa. The scale of the project raises a key question: where will the workers come from, and how will they get the skills the plant needs? Manufacturing accounted for 24.4% of Lee County jobs in a 2024 county study. But finding qualified workers has been a challenge for employers across the region. In a 2023 survey, 62.6% of employers in the eight-county Mississippi Valley workforce

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Pepper Purpura

    ARL caring for nearly 400 neglected animals after Marshall County rescue; horse, chickens euthanized (opens the original)

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    The Animal Rescue League of Iowa is caring for hundreds of farm animals after the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office seized 379 animals Friday during an animal neglect investigation. The animals included chickens, goats, sheep, a pony, pigs, geese, ducks, rabbits and kittens. The ARL says a pony and six chickens from the property had to be euthanized because of their condition. Tom Colvin, the ARL’s CEO, said many of the animals were thin or emaciated and had little or no access to food or water b

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Pepper Purpura

    Spock’s Sanctuary begins bringing animals home after May fire (opens the original)

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    A snake that escaped a burning enclosure and a lizard seen caked in soot are among the residents returning to Spock’s Sanctuary. The Des Moines reptile rescue began moving animals into its new home at 1202 Army Post Road on Sunday. Volunteers are cleaning enclosures and preparing the former military surplus store for the sanctuary’s hoped-for reopening before the end of the year. Benedict, a Burmese python, was in a holding room next to the medical room where the May 1 fire began. His enclosure

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Pepper Purpura

    Nearly 10,000 free radon test kits distributed as Iowa expands rural cancer care (opens the original)

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    Less than a month after Iowa began distributing free radon test kits, nearly 10,000 have already been sent to county health departments as part of a broader effort to improve cancer prevention and health care access in rural communities. State, local and federal health leaders gathered Wednesday in Marion County to discuss the progress of Iowa's Healthy Hometowns: Combat Cancer Initiative, one of five programs funded through the state's first-year $209 million federal Rural Health Transformation

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