@IowaDPS 54th Basic- Emergency Vehicle Operations training week! Mock pursuit scenarios day is always the best! Starting to ramp it up with these well trained @iowastatepatrol future Troopers! Courtesy, Service and Protection
Distracted driving is a problem! @iowastatepatrol wants to remind you to put your phones down & focus on driving. All the “other” things can wait so you make sure to arrive alive! Hands free driving is safe driving. You never know when someone is watching you
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I’m a school nurse. We have a rule. Kids without lunch money get a cold cheese sandwich. Nothing else. It’s policy. This boy came in one Wednesday. Sixth grader. Stomach pain he said. I’ve been doing this twenty years. I know real stomach pain and I know hunger. “When did you last eat?” He looked at the floor. “Yesterday lunch.”
Sent him to the cafeteria with a note. Told them to give him a full hot meal. Pasta. Salad. Milk. The works. Cafeteria lady looked at my note. Looked at me. Gave him the tray without a word. He ate like he hadn’t seen food in days. Probably hadn’t. Came back to my office after. “Am I in trouble?” “For what?” “For eating.” “That’s what food is for.”
Started keeping granola bars, peanut butter crackers, juice boxes in my bottom drawer. For kids who come in with headaches that are really hunger. Stomachaches that are really empty. I’m not supposed to. Technically against policy. Don’t care. Told my principal once. She looked at me for a long moment.....
Opened her desk drawer. Showed me her stash. Crackers. Fruit snacks. Applesauce. “What drawer?” she said. We never spoke of it again.
That sixth grader is in high school now. Came to find me last spring. “I just wanted you to know I’m okay. And that I remembered. I always will.” He volunteers at a food bank on weekends. Has since he was thirteen.
Best granola bars I ever bought.
FORMER KMALANDER: Nodaway Valley alum Maddax DeVault highlights the four former KMAland girls basketball players to make the All-American Rivers Conference Team.
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@iowastatepatrol The PURPLE on the 511IA map is TRAVEL NOT ADVISED! From council bluffs to Atlantic on I80, council bluffs to Loveland on I29 and all of I880 corridor!
100% ice pack with pack snow on top of it! Give the @iowadot crews time to break this up! Spread the word!
People call Social Security an "entitlement." It’s not. You paid into it. Hardworking Americans have spent the last 20, 30, 40 years watching the government take money from every paycheck. Don’t ever let a Republican or a Democrat call it an entitlement. You paid in—you earned it. You deserve your money back with a return. That’s the contract.
It's coming! Homecoming & Family Weekend is October 24-26 at Simpson College. Alumni, students and family, let’s celebrate together! View the schedule → https://t.co/736C52egKF
Come out Wednesday in Bedford and see the remnants of this Crashed Camaro that tragically took 3 young lives in July of 2022! Come talk with the @iowastatepatrol about how EXCESSIVE SPEED Kills! A prime example of just how fast lives can be OVER in a matter of seconds!
🚨BREAKING: 10,000 Catholics walked through the streets of New York City praying and singing for peace.
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Iowa’s #HandsFree driving law just wrapped its first 2 months (July–Aug 2025): an education-first rollout with distracted-driving stats highlighting 👉 Drivers using handheld phones are 4× more likely to crash! keep doing your part to keep everyone safe!