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By Jim Scott
ASHWAUBENON, Wis.
 â The Green Bay Booyah have announced the signing of Illinois-Springfield infielder Zion Pettigrew and left-handed pitcher Mason Coon.
Pettigrew is in his junior year at Illinois-Springfield. Through 10 games this spring he is batting a cool .455 with two home runs and .567 on-base percentage. In 13 games last season, the Chicago, Illinois native led the Prairie Stars with a .426 batting average, .741 slugging percentage, 23 hits, 18 runs, five home runs and 20 total bases. He led the team with eight multi-hit games and ended the season on an 11-game hitting streak. He was named Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Week on one occasion as well.
Six months after the derecho, we re still displaced from our bedroom. Our room has been unlivable and the door has been closed for so long, sometimes I forget it s there. We re lucky to have another room to use in the meantime.
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A sign sits outside of the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, a polling place during the Iowa primary election, June 2, 2020. Emma McClatchey/Little Village
At least 33 state legislatures around the country, most of them controlled by Republicans, are working on bills that restrict voting. Iowa is one of them.
“These bills are an unmistakable response to the unfounded and dangerous lies about fraud that followed the 2020 election,“ the Brennan Center for Justice said in a report on the bills published earlier this month.
Republican leaders in the Iowa Legislature are fast-tracking SSB 1199, a Senate bill imposing new restrictions on voting and stripping local control over elections, as well the identical bill in the House, HSB 213. The House and Senate bills were introduced on Tuesday, and approved by a subcommittees that next day. The Senate State Government Committee and the House State Government Committee approved the bills on Thursday.
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Before it was a Netflix hit, “The Queen’s Gambit” was a 1983 novel written by University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop graduate Walter Tevis.
The book begins with eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s arrival at an orphanage in Kentucky following the death of her mother. The orphanage is a cold, uncaring place where she and the other children are fed tranquilizers to keep them docile. Beth s only saving grace is her discovery of chess through an unlikely teacher, the gruff janitor Mr. Schaibel who holds court in the dank, dark basement. The rest of the book follows Beth as her extraordinary chess skills grow. She is adopted, becomes the Kentucky chess champion and moves on to competing on the world stage. All the while she struggles with addiction and isolation.