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Bleeding Heartland
Thursday, Apr 29 2021
Officials in the Iowa Department of Public Safety and the governor’s office decided during the summer of 2020 to install a permanent fence around the Terrace Hill mansion in Des Moines, records obtained by Bleeding Heartland show.
The documents don’t reveal, nor did state officials clarify, whether Governor Kim Reynolds or her staff pushed for added security around the governor’s official residence. The records also don’t explain the timing of the decision to move forward with a plan that had been floated years earlier, according to the agency responsible for protecting the governor.
Florida State University News
WFSU wins national award and growing audience
February 9, 2021 | 12:41 pm | SHARE:
Kimberly Kelling, the director of content and community partnerships for WFSU, said the station s goal is to create content that is relevant, informative, and resonates with the community.
WFSU recently took home one of the most important awards in public media.
The station was designated the Public Media Award winner in the category of Community Engagement: National Project category at the 2021 National Education Telecommunications Association (NETA) conference.
WFSU was recognized for its October 2019 “Retro Local Stories and Screening,” a project that included multimedia stories about the claiming (by eminent domain) and demolition of Tallahassee’s historically Black Smokey Hollow neighborhood during the 1960s, and the loss of the Florida A&M University Hospital in the 1970s.
The newly restored Coca-Cola mural on the side of the Padgett building in Quincy started WFSU Public Media’s Mike Plummer wondering about the history behind the artwork. This story is where new Coke and old Coke meet at Madison Street and Jefferson Street in the small southern town.
WFSU Local Routes
WFSU’s Mike Plummer shows us the fateful story of a World War II era B-17 bomber that crashed at Saint Marks on a summer day in 1944. The plane went down carrying a crew of ten men…only one airman survived. Long forgotten, the wreckage was rediscovered in 2011. A historic marker is now in place so the story of these men won’t be forgotten again.
Transcript:
Reporter Mike Plummer: When I think of the St. Marks National
Wildlife Refuge, I usually think of unspoiled nature and its signature
lighthouse. But in 2011, a crew from the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found something else on the refuge that had