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☆ The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State
  + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In 2021, Chris Gloninger, a television weatherman in Boston with a passion for climate science, was approached with an intriguing prospect. Would he consider a job as chief meteorologist at a television station in Des Moines? The station, KCCI, wanted to amp up climate coverage, Mr. Gloninger said he was told, not least because agriculture was so important in the state. In announcing Mr. Gloninger’s hiring to the newsroom, Ms. Smith highlighted his extensive climate coverage. “My big takeaway was that there’s going to be a lot of climate involved,” said Mr. Serwe, now a meteorologist at KSTP in St. Paul, Minn.
Persons: Chris Gloninger, Allison Smith, Gloninger, Mr, Smith, Matt Serwe, ”, Serwe Locations: Boston, Des Moines, St, Paul
☆ TV Weather Gets Political
  + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( David Gelles | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Climate change is now squarely part of the American culture wars, and heat waves and flash foods have become fodder for partisan squabbling. Nowhere is this tension more acute than in the weather departments of local TV stations. As extreme weather becomes more commonplace and climate change raises temperatures around the globe, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the nation’s roughly 2,000 television meteorologists to stay above the fray. An award-winning TV weatherman, Gloninger moved to Iowa in 2021 to take the job of chief meteorologist at KCCI, the CBS affiliate in Des Moines. His new bosses were explicit: They wanted him to talk about climate change.
Persons: Chris Gloninger, Gloninger Organizations: CBS Locations: Iowa, KCCI, Des Moines
☆ Greenfield, Iowa: Tornado-spawning storms left multiple people dead in Iowa and are now threatening cities from Texas to New York
  + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | Robert Shackelford | Joe Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Multiple fatalities and some injuries have been reported in the small city of Greenfield, Iowa – about 50 miles southwest of Des Moines – after a tornado carved a devastating path through the community Tuesday evening, Iowa State Patrol spokesperson Sgt. “There is basically nothing left,” Clel Baudler, a former Iowa state representative who lives a half mile from Greenfield, told CNN on Tuesday. Power outages across Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois left nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in the dark as of Tuesday night, according to PowerOutage.us. A few tornadoes could strike from Texas to Arkansas, but hail and powerful winds are possible anywhere along the storms’ path. Heaps of rubble blanket Greenfield, Iowa, after a tornado touched down Tuesday.
Persons: Alex Dinkla, Dinkla, Clel, Kim Reynolds, Charlie Neibergall, Valerie Warrior, KCCI, “, ”, “ They’ll, CNN’s Jessica Jordan, Sara Smart, Amy Simonson Organizations: CNN, Midwest, Des Moines, Iowa State Patrol, Storm Prediction Center Locations: Iowa, Greenfield , Iowa, Des, Greenfield, Iowa , Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, Vermont, Ohio, Great, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Dallas, Fort Worth, Nashville, St, Louis, Memphis, Cleveland, Tulsa, Columbus, Iowa , Minnesota , Wisconsin, Western Iowa, Prescott, Adams County, Montgomery County
☆ Tornado Pummels Wind Turbines in Iowa
  + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Christopher Flavelle | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The footage from southwest Iowa is shocking: In the trail of a tornado, a wind turbine is bent in half like a cheap straw, its hub engulfed in flames and thick black smoke, its blades on the ground. “You’re seeing multiple of these big wind turbine towers that have been destroyed,” Zane Satre, a meteorologist for KCCI 8 News in Des Moines, told viewers. “These are big tall ones — I think they’re what, like 250 feet tall? Well that tornado took them out.”
Persons: ” Zane Satre, ” Locations: Iowa, Des Moines
☆ Iowa school officials said they didn't realize their 'Respect Quote of the day' emailed to parents was a Nazi Germany slogan
  + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
An Iowa school district sent a "quote of the day" to parents that was actually a Nazi slogan. "My honor is my loyalty," read the quote, a Waffen SS motto attributed to Heinrich Himmler. AdvertisementAn Iowa school district has apologized to parents after emailing an announcement with a "quote of the day" that was actually attributed to Heinrich Himmler. "Here's today's Respect Quote of the day: 'My honor is my loyalty,'" a line at the bottom of the email read, per KCCI. The Indianola School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.
Persons: Heinrich Himmler, hadn't, —, Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Ted Ihns, didn't, Ihns Organizations: Nazi, Waffen SS, Service, CBS, Defamation, ADL, Indianola Independent, Indianola School Locations: Iowa, An Iowa, Indianola, Nazi Germany
☆ Former GOP congressman Will Hurd gets booed off stage for saying Trump 'is running to stay out of prison'
  + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former congressman Will Hurd was effectively booed off stage for criticizing Trump. The crowd made clear their displeasure with Hurd's claim that Trump 'is running to stay out of prison." "Donald Trump is not running for president to represent people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020," Hurd said. "Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison." Hurd is not expected to qualify for the first Republican presidential primary debate next month, which requires candidates to meet polling and donation thresholds.
Persons: Will Hurd, Trump, Hurd, Hurd's, Donald Trump's, Iowa Republican Party's, Donald Trump, Amanda Rooker KCCI, Brianne Pfannenstiel, X, Jack Smith's, Mike Pence, Pence, Francis Suarez Organizations: Iowa Republicans, Service, Republican Party, Iowa Republican, Republican, Des Moines Register's, Twitter, House, Iowa, Miami Locations: Wall, Silicon, Iowa, Des, Texas, Trump
☆ TV meteorologist quits after receiving threats and harassment over climate change coverage
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
He also received other negative feedback via private messages and social media, which has become a common experience for weather and climate communicators. The decision was not easy, Gloninger told the Washington Post, but in a tweet announcing his exit, he cited a “death threat stemming from my climate coverage” which he said resulted in post-traumatic stress. A statement from KCCI about his departure said Gloninger plans to go into climate consulting: “Gloninger is leaving television to focus on caring for his family and his own mental health. Climate communicators, journalists, meteorologists and national weather services, including those in the US, Spain and Australia, have reported an increase in harassment, threats and abuse for connecting extreme weather events to climate change. “Science is science.
Persons: Chris Gloninger, Gloninger, Gloninger’s, ” Gloninger, “, ”, Jeff Berardelli, ” Berardelli Organizations: CNN, Des, Washington Post Locations: Des Moines, US, Spain, Australia, France, WFLA, Tampa Bay
☆ Iowa Republicans want to ban SNAP recipients from buying meat, white bread, and American cheese
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Iowa Republicans proposed a bill that would drastically limit what foods SNAP recipients can buy. People wouldn't be able to buy grocery staples like white bread, American cheese, fresh meat, and more. The foods people can purchase in the WIC program are much more restrictive than those allowed in SNAP. WIC is "not designed for people that rely on SNAP benefits to make ends meet," Book told Insider. "Year after year, the legislature wants to tear down SNAP benefits for the state of Iowa.
☆ Iowa teen who killed rapist escapes from probation center, authorities say
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence. Prosecutors had called the probation sentence she was given in September merciful for a teen who endured horrible abuse, although some questioned the $150,000 restitution she was ordered to pay. Polk County Judge David Porter told Lewis that her probation sentence “was the second chance you asked for. You don’t get a third,” the Des Moines Register reported. Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment.
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