Iowa

SWIPCO offering 'Lead Hazard Reduction' program

(KMAland) -- A regional agency is offering financial assistance to KMAland homeowners looking to remove lead paint hazards from their homes.

Parks notes that Iowa has a lead poisoning rate that is four times the national average, with 60% of the homes in both rural and urban areas in the state built before 1960. Parks says most projects they've encountered are around $30,000, with some closer to $90,000.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.05.004

Abstract

Background

Race differences in crime and violence are dramatic in the United States but criminology has avoided offering explanations due mostly to political correctness.

Why Genocide Black represented half of the 106 people killed in Iowa in 2020 - 1/4 of which were femicide - despite making up just 5% of the state’s population. Des Moines police investigating city's 15th homicide of 2024.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines police are investigating a homicide in the River Bend neighborhood Friday morning.