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This Week
Iowa Press
En esta edición de Iowa Press, nuestros invitados son los candidatos a Secretario de Agricultura de Iowa Mike Naig (R - Condado de Dallas), secretario de agricultura titular y John Norwood (D - Ankeny).
Market to Market
Hurricane damage in Florida, an ag speech law is sacked in court, and a look at harvest.
Iowa Press
On this edition of Iowa Press our guests are candidates for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig (R - Dallas County), incumbent secretary of agriculture, and John Norwood (D - Ankeny).
Iowa Press
Las candidatas, Christina Bohannan (D - Iowa City), representante en la cámara estatal de Iowa y la actual representante por Iowa en la Cámara Baja de los EE.UU., Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R - Ottumwa), responden preguntas de los reporteros y hablan acerca de sus plataformas, inquietudes y planes para el futuro.
Iowa Press
Candidates State Representative Christina Bohannan (D – Iowa City) and U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R – Ottumwa) answer questions from reporters and discuss their platforms, concerns and future plans.
Iowa Press
On this edition of Iowa Press, Democratic candidate for Iowa's 4th Congressional District Ryan Melton (D - Nevada) will discuss his views, what he wants to accomplish in Congress and his campaign challenging incumbent Rep. Randy Feenstra (R - Hull).
Greetings From Iowa
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: The Aerialist, Chuy Renteria, Ballroom Dancing, and Volition Skate Co.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Great White Way, Nicole Baart, Iowa-based author, COVID Resilience, and Caleb Rainey.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Brooklyn, Kelly Montijo Fink, Country Music DJ Hall of Fame, and Greek Cooking.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Ida Grove, Emmetsburg Main Street Community Theatre, Angie Lampe, Costume Designer, and Love of Theatre.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Carter Lake, Stockman House, Sears Catalog Homes, Days of Yore Museum, and Floyd of Rosedale Trophy.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Back to School, Sioux City Railroad Museum, Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, and Museum of Natural History.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Kalona, La Prensa, Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Iowa, and Tai Dam Cooking.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Fairfield, Art Therapy, The Power of Art, and Youth Art Team.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Manning, Community Refrigerator, Soul Book Nook, and Blame Not the Bard - Irish Folk Band.
Greetings From Iowa
Features include: Community Shoutout: Bentonsport, Rancho Deluxe, The Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center, and Vánočka.
Greetings From Iowa
One of the earliest certified routes in Iowa connects five communities by way of white painted telephone poles. Learn the history of the Great White Way.
Greetings From Iowa
In the summer of 1893, one of the greatest living composers spent the summer in Spillville, Iowa.
Greetings From Iowa
Learn about the colorful history of Carter Lake, an Iowa community in Nebraska.
Greetings From Iowa
Chuy Renteria has written the story of growing up Mexican American in West Liberty, Iowa's first majority Hispanic town.
Greetings From Iowa
The town's German heritage has been preserved through an original Hausbarn that dates back to the 1660s and was imported from Germany.
Greetings From Iowa
Take a tour around Brooklyn, Iowa. Often referred to as the Community of Flags, Brooklyn has flags from all 50 states and the four branches of the military, and is also the birthplace of Hollywood icon John Wayne. The community recently restored its old opera house and has given it new life as a concert venue and movie theater.
Greetings From Iowa
Volition Skate Co. is a women-owned roller skate company created by owners Kate Vigmostad and Jen Kranz. Located in Fairfield, Iowa, the duo started the company at the height of the global pandemic.
Greetings From Iowa
Take a tour around Ida Grove, Iowa, also referred to as "Castletown, USA." Aside from the castle architecture that is spread throughout the community, Ida Grove boasts other historical treasures and destinations that set the community apart.
Greetings From Iowa
Take a tour around Fairfield, Iowa. This community brings in hundreds of people from around the world who study at the Maharishi International University. Fairfield achieves a metropolitan feel in a town of only 9,000 people.
Greetings From Iowa
Kalona, Iowa, celebrates a rich cultural heritage dating back to the late 1830s when pioneers began immigrating from the east. The Amish, who remain an important part of the Kalona community, arrived in 1846 when Iowa gained statehood.
Greetings From Iowa
Take a tour around the small village of Bentonsport, Iowa. Bentonsport was a steamboat port in the mid-1800s. Today, there are several historic shops, bed and breakfasts and resident artisans such as blacksmiths and potters.
Greetings From Iowa
See the collection of specimens dating back to the late 1800s and early 1900s when students went on expeditions for scientific research.
Greetings From Iowa
Baking a sweet braided bread served at Christmas in the Czech Republic.
Greetings From Iowa
From Sioux Center, Iowa, Nicole Baart is the author of a new suspense novel called "Everything We Didn't Say."
Greetings From Iowa
Susie Murray teaches ballroom dancing in eastern Iowa.
Greetings From Iowa
Christkindlmarkt kicks off the holiday season in many Iowa towns, bringing the warmth, cheer and excitement of an open-air marketplace.
Greetings From Iowa
The Floyd of Rosedale Trophy has been passed between the University of Iowa and University of Minnesota football teams since 1935.
Greetings From Iowa
Located in the historic Haymark District of Council Bluffs, the Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center serves as a hub for all things arts and culture in Pottawattamie County.
Greetings From Iowa
Mimi Ke is a teacher, choreographer, performer and aerial dancer based in Iowa City.
Greetings From Iowa
The museum at the Independence Mental Health Institute tells the story of caring for the state's mentally ill patients in a different era.
Greetings From Iowa
Dubuque's oldest cemetery reveals a fascinating history of the people buried there.
Greetings From Iowa
Learn about the history of Dubuque's Arriandeaux Cabin, the oldest building west of the Mississippi River.
Greetings From Iowa
Mexican/Apache/Spanish singer, songwriter and performer, services as commissioner for the Office of Native Americans in Iowa.
Greetings From Iowa
A community theater has brought productions both big and small to Emmetsburg for more than 40 years.
Greetings From Iowa
Angie Lampe brings characters to life through her work as a costume designer at the Des Moines Playhouse.
Greetings From Iowa
Dale Eichor, inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame in 2001, spent 40 years in radio broadcasting.
Greetings From Iowa
Experience the history of Iowa's rail system in Sioux City.
Greetings From Iowa
The smallest school district in Iowa, Diagonal Community School continues to serve all grades in one building.
Greetings From Iowa
From the auction block to an art museum, a Carnegie Library in southwest Iowa showcases modern and contemporary art from across the world.
Greetings From Iowa
Check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s, and still standing today.
Greetings From Iowa
The Giant Slide at the Iowa State Fair makes memories for many Iowa families.
Greetings From Iowa
The longtime Iowa State Fair horse show organist is profiled.
Greetings From Iowa
A notorious dumpster diver creates a garden in Mason City.
Greetings From Iowa
Feel the creativity and fun of the annual Des Moines Arts Festival.
Greetings From Iowa
An art team that's creating community, making social change and bringing color to their city.
Greetings From Iowa
First generation Danish American, Annette Andersen, shares her heritage, and makes a traditional Danish dish, aebleskivers!
Greetings From Iowa
A resourceful Iowa journalist feels that translating the news helps her community stay informed and get to know their neighbors.
Greetings From Iowa
When we’re traumatized, our voice is one of the first things we lose. Art therapy gives a voice to the unspeakable. And therapist Diane Tonkyn uses art therapy to help clients find that voice.
Greetings From Iowa
A broadway performer from Iowa tries to make a living doing voice work during a pandemic.
Greetings From Iowa
Iowans of Hindu faith celebrate Maha Shivaratri and Holi at a temple in Madrid, Iowa.
Greetings From Iowa
Take brief tour of a Prairie School style home designed by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Greetings From Iowa
A neighborhood is nurtured with a place for people to donate and access food with no questions asked.
Greetings From Iowa
Students and artists in Creston paint 20 murals in the community.
Greetings From Iowa
Located in Waterloo, and opened in September of the pandemic, Soul Book Nook is a black-owned bookstore in Iowa. It also serves as a community hub.
Greetings From Iowa
There's an interesting sound coming from eastern Iowa. Drop the needle on Russ Curry's Curious Music.
Greetings From Iowa
After the coronavirus canceled their spring production, Spencer High School's musical theatre department got creative.
Greetings From Iowa
Is it art or science? For Dakotah Rose Gould, taxidermy is both.
Greetings From Iowa
A passion for gardening is used to help hungry residents in the Quad Cities.
Greetings From Iowa
Miss Iowa 2014, Autumn Weaver, navigates the challenges of living deaf in a hearing world.
Greetings From Iowa
Lynn Dobson built his first organ on the family farm in 1973. By the time he retires he'll have constructed 100 pipe organs in Lake City, Iowa.
Greetings From Iowa
As a priest and educator Monsignor Walter Brunkan has been a lasting influence in his northeastern Iowa communities for decades.
Greetings From Iowa
At age 71, Des Moines resident Kittie Weston-Knauer is the oldest female BMX racer in the game.
Greetings From Iowa
Keeping the soap box derby sport alive for younger generations.
Greetings From Iowa
For 96 years cowboys and cowgirls have come from far and wide to compete with the best at Rodeo Town USA.
Greetings From Iowa
Four decades and seven million matchsticks, Pat Action's elaborate, life-sized models can be seen all over the world.
Greetings From Iowa
City dwellers Jered and Shawn Camp bought a farm and launched a rescue operation where injured and wayward animals go to live out their days.
Greetings From Iowa
Since 1935 the town of Pella has celebrated its Dutch heritage with an annual festival of food, music, dancing, and tulips! Slip on your wooden shoes, it's Pella Tulip Time.
Greetings From Iowa
When Shelby Smith left her job in finance to move home to Iowa, she had a different kind of farming in mind.
Greetings From Iowa
Each week in Coralville a group of "outside singers" joins a group of "inside singers" in a prison gym to form the Oakdale Community Choir.
Greetings From Iowa
Bob started a live radio show to unearth the central Iowa sound of the 1970's. And he finds it at thrift stores.
Greetings From Iowa
Meet JJ Singh Kapur - a teenager, a Sikh, a championship speaker, and an Iowan - in our latest episode, Sikh in the Spotlight.
Greetings From Iowa
The Storm Lake Times is a family paper that isn't out to cause trouble, just to report the news.
Greetings From Iowa
Experience the essence of Iowa tradition that celebrates Meskwaki customs passed down through the generations.
Greetings From Iowa
Benny Davis built his first airplane before he even learned to fly. Now he ships carbon fiber parts all over the world.
Greetings From Iowa
Puppets, plays, workshops, and folktales go on the road to entertain and educate Iowans.
Greetings From Iowa
From Moscow to Iowa, Oleg Timofeyev makes Iowa the center of the Russian guitar revival.
Greetings From Iowa
Before making history at the Sprint Car Capitol of the World, McKenna Haase entered the Raceway as a fan.
Greetings From Iowa
An writer and an artist, Ms. Rocki & Chaveevah, are old friends on a new adventure.
Greetings From Iowa
Writer combines local and historical folklore to reflect on the unexpected challenges and enduring values in Iowa’s changing small towns.
Greetings From Iowa
As a dowser, Bob Terry searches Iowa's cemeteries for unmarked graves.
Greetings From Iowa
The sisters of the Mississippi Abbey pair a life of prayer with the art of making fine caramels and chocolates.
Greetings From Iowa
Iowa native and artist John Schlue brings modern art to the streets of Belle Plaine.
Greetings From Iowa
Carlisle insurance salesman Todd Isely has raced hot air balloons since 2004, traveling across the United States and the world. The 2015 champion at Indianola's National Balloon Classic, Todd and crew returned a year later with Iowa PBS along for the ride to see how it's done.
Greetings From Iowa
The Baker's Dozen travels for road shows, performs on streets and hosts lively spring and fall revues which have become the stuff of legend.
Greetings From Iowa
Bryan Guise has been handcrafting custom bobbleheads in his hometown of Des Moines since 2002.
Greetings From Iowa
A dance troupe teaching Indian culture and heritage to the Iowa-born girls in Iowa City's Indian community.
Greetings From Iowa
Local artists put their unique views of historic Mount Vernon onto canvas.
Greetings From Iowa
After an emergency trip to the hospital, Leonard Olson emerged a changed man and charted a new career path.
Iowa Press Debates
Iowa Press
Candidates U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson (R - Marion) and State Senator Liz Mathis (D - Hiawatha) will answer questions from reporters and discuss their platforms, concerns and future plans.
Iowa Press
Challenger Deidre DeJear (D - Des Moines) and incumbent Governor Kim Reynolds (R - Des Moines) will answer questions from reporters and discuss their platforms, concerns and plans for Iowa’s future.
Iowa Press
Candidates retired Navy admiral Mike Franken (D – Sioux City) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R – New Hartford) will answer questions from reporters and discuss their platforms, concerns and future plans.
Iowa Press
Candidates State Representative Christina Bohannan (D – Iowa City) and U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R – Ottumwa) answer questions from reporters and discuss their platforms, concerns and future plans.
Iowa Press
Las candidatas, Christina Bohannan (D - Iowa City), representante en la cámara estatal de Iowa y la actual representante por Iowa en la Cámara Baja de los EE.UU., Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R - Ottumwa), responden preguntas de los reporteros y hablan acerca de sus plataformas, inquietudes y planes para el futuro.
Iowa Press
Candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat in 2022 gather for a live debate at Iowa PBS.
Iowa Press
Los precandidatos que buscan lograr la nominación por el partido Demócrata en la contienda por el escaño de Iowa en el Senado de los EE.UU.