Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Iowa is experiencing a surge of coronavirus outbreaks at long-term care facilities, including the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown. Officials say the spread there now includes 20 staff and residents...

Gov. Reynolds yesterday announced more plans to gradually reopen the state with what she called a targeted approach to loosening restrictions. Starting this Friday in 77 counties, restaurants, fitness...

New numbers from state health officials show several more deaths from the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, as well as hundreds of new cases amid increased testing. The Iowa Department of Publi...

Black Hawk County became the first county to have more than 600 confirmed cases of COVID-19, that was announced at yesterday's county news briefing; the county total is now 622, with 90 percent of the...

Tyson Fresh Meats suspended operations at its Waterloo plant indefinitely yesterday. The plant is the company’s largest pork plant, processing about 19,500 hogs per day, about 4 percent of the t...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has announced a plan to dramatically increase Iowa’s capacity to test for the coronavirus. Under the Test Iowa plan, the state’s 3.2 million residents will be asked to co...

It could happen as early as this afternoon...action in the U.S. Senate to add funding to the Paycheck Protection Program...I asked U.S. Senator Charles Grassley yesterday if the bill is clean and free...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered residents in northeastern Iowa to stay home for all but work and essential errands amid growing concerns about coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants and nursing hom...

Iowa #COVID19 Update By The Numbers: 96 additional positive cases / total of 1,995 positive cases 4 additional deaths (1 each in Allamakee, Clayton, Johnson, Polk) / 53 total Iowa deaths 171 hospitali...

Dr. Joel Fitzgerald, Sr. has been named Waterloo's new police chief, subject to city council ratification Monday night. Fitzgerald has been chief deputy in the Philadelphia Office of the Sheriff; he p...