Friday, June 11th, 2021

Governor Kim Reynolds demands a congressional hearing after migrant children were brought to Iowa in April for unification with their sponsors without notification. Two Democratic candidates have already announced they’re running to replace longtime Polk County Attorney John Sarcone just a day after he said he would not seek re-election. IPR’s Kate Payne tells us one of the declared candidates formerly ran for U.S. Senate in Iowa. The Midwest region has some of the highest rates of rented farmland in the country and that can have environmental consequences. Harvest Public Media offers an analysis of the environmental impact of tenant farming.