For free doctor visits, prescriptions, dental and eye care. The clinic counted on the community for volunteer physicians and donations to make it possible. If that federal Health Insurance program disappears, clinic leaders say theyll have to step up again. Were going to need more help, dave, if that happens. Were still going to take care of patients one by one who walk through out door and provide that Compassionate Care we always have if we have 1 in the waiting room or 200. Running new patients through the signup process to see if they qualified for Health Insurance became an automatic first step. Its still the first step until, or if, the law changes. The clinic, open mornings only, sends those with insurance elsewhere and mainly cares for those who cant qualify for help. One woman on medicaid, but a past freeclinic patient, doesnt want to go back to the way things were. Going without insurance, its daily patients these days, costs didnt drop as much as you might expect. The higher
A lot of scrambling. Ill have to makeup some time at work his week, and find somebody that will stay home with them she says her kids have never complained to her about being hot. Its bearable to me. I think we have had hotter days than this. I felt like today of all days, i felt like yesterday was warmer. But superintenden t Stephen Murley toured two hot schools tuesday, saying 23 percent of their classes dont have air conditioning. I know i was in multiple classrooms yesterday where they were running half a dozen fans at a time obviously for kids to hear, hard for teachers to communicate with the students. Only 7 out of the 26 schools are feeling the heat. But the district had to let all of tm out because of their strict bus schedule. We tier our buses that is in the morning they take elementary to schools and then go back out and pickup junior high and high school students. In the afternoon it works the same way. Luis lopez hopes picking up his sister from southeast early does not b
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a great day in all areas. Highs will drop into the upper 70s today with lower humidity levels as well. Our wind will people believe the city is wasting their time and money. The city is holding an inforanal meeting tonight to explain why the city needs updates. The city council wants to fix crumbling sidewalks and put them into neighborhoods where they dont exist. Homeowners will have to cover the cost. Council members say the ordinance has been around for years, they just havent enforced it. Iowa code lets cities assess sidewalks to property owners. Some say the the city council is going about the project the wrong way, but the city 22 20 54;13 the other side of town down there, i can sit in front of my home for hours at night and never see a car go by let alone a person walking the streets 22 08 36;00 we have a Grant Program available that anyone that qualifies for lowincome we have grant money set aside, we also can assess it against their
Some parts of northeast iowa saw rain again this morning and state leaders now are trying to get more money to help the areas hit hard by last months flooding. Flooding. Governor Terry Branstad has requested a federal disaster declaration for eight counties from president obama. Its not clear when the white house will announce the president s decisi. Congressional delegation has reached out to the president urging him to act quickly. State assistance is available to anyone trying to repair damage from the flood waters. A developing story overnight police in Charlotte North Carolina say at least 12 of their officers were injured during protests after another Deadly Police shooting of a black man. One of those officers was hit in the face with a rock. Protesters were shown breaking the windows of a Police Vehicle and destroying other demonstrators started throwing rocks at their van too. Early this morning protesters blocked a portion of interstate 85 before officers cleared the roadway
Some are calling it a witch defended his decision to stay home and care for sick wife. Dennis freitag fielded questions from the county supervisors yesterday. Freitag months while he cares for his ailing wife, pam. While going through the final stages of lupus. But the supervisors say freitag is so far behind on his work, its affecting the county governments ability to function. The board asked about freitag being behind in getting the countys fiscal year 2015 books uptodate. They also asked whether freitag has been holding official county documents at his home. Freitag responded several times by saying hes a 247 caregiver for his wife. And that the board should be questioning his chief deputy auditor, who he says takes care of things when hes gone. Several times, freitag became visibly agitated, and accused Board Members of badgering him by asking the same questions repeatedly. 25 5918 you have set me up for failure. And it has not just been this year, its been last year. And thats ex