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Two teams few were predicting would be in Indianapolis will meet in Saturday night's Big Ten football championship game: Iowa and Michigan. The Gazette's https://twitter.com/jsteppe1 (John Steppe) discusses the matchup with Hawkeye Report's https://twitter.com/hawkeyereport (Tom Kakert) and The Detroit News' https://twitter.com/chengelis (Angelique Chengelis) on this episode of Hawk Off The Press. Plus, what led to Deuce Hogan's transfer, an update on Xavier Nwankpa's recruitment from Tom and answering our text subscribers' questions.

On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” Associate Sports Editor Ken Schott previews the opening of the Albany FireWolves National Lacrosse League team's season with head coach and general manager Glenn Clark. College football talk follows. Schott speaks with RPI head coach Ralph Isernia as his team prepares to play top-ranked North Central in the NCAA Division III football tournament quarterfinals on Saturday. Gazette sportswriter and Notre Dame sports fan Mike MacAdam gives his thoughts on head coach Brian Kelly leaving the Fighting Irish to take over the LSU program. “The Parting Schotts Podcast” is available wherever you get your podcasts and at https://dailygazette.com/category/sports/parting-schotts.

Special, special teams. It was the story of the day (and the season?) as Iowa rallied to beat Nebraska 28-21 on Black Friday. Now, the Hawkeyes cheer on Minnesota to beat Wisconsin to give them a spot in the Big Ten championship game. John Steppe and Mike Hlas discuss their takeaways on The Final Score, The Gazette's Hawkeye football postgame podcast.

On this week's Gazette: The New York State Assembly has released its long-awaited report on an impeachment inquiry into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo; our political observer Alan Chartock discusses his interview with the former Governor that ended up in the report. Also, officials praise Canada's decision to remove requirements for citizens traveling out of the country.

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch.WhoShaun Sutner, snowsports columnist for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and Telegram.comRecorded onNovember 22, 2021Why I interviewed himBecause for skiing to thrive, it needs ski media to help tell its story. And I mean actual reporting-based journalism. Yes, it needs the hype – the cliff drops, the pow shots, the flippidy-doodle park brahs, this:But it also needs writers who can tell the story of the more approachable lift-served skiing world in which most of us dwell. Writers who know the local markets and local owners and local skiers and local idiosyncrasies. In the great ski media wipeout that swept away the bulk of our U.S. magazines, we also lost a lot of local ski beats. This matters. Good journalism, grounded in relationships and research, can counterbalance the noisy and atrocious swirl of social-media garbage that has become many skier’s primary information source about the sport.Sutner provides this corrective. In a snowsports column he has written for nearly two decades, he explores the world of New England skiing from his Worcester, Massachusetts base. He knows the people who run the ski areas, understands the market dynamics driving the sport’s evolution, and skis 80 days a year on the mountains he writes about. He knows the uphill and the downhill, the groomers and the backcountry, the people who can show him the stashes in all of them. There is nobody better equipped to help us understand what New England skiing is, how it became that, and what it might be in the future.What we talked aboutI can’t pronounce “Worcester”; the appeal of New England skiing; Southeast and Mid-Atlantic ski culture; Sutner’s long-running Telegram snowsports column; it’s beef time, snowshoers; what skiing loses when local journalism shrivels; the amazing snowy ski town that is Worcester; the slick operation at Wachusett; journalism’s rough transition to digital; newspaper paywalls; how to ski 80 days a year with a full-time job; surveying the Massachusetts ski landscape; the rise of Berkshire East; the renaissance at Catamount; the art of dodging large crowds at Stowe, Mount Snow, Loon, Cannon, and other busy mountains; regional ski passes; the Berkshire East-Wachusett French fry beef; you won’t believe which Massachusetts ski area has the highest base elevation in the state; thoughts on the state’s lost ski areas – Mount Tom, Pine Ridge, Brodie, Blandford, Mt. Watatic; the most endangered ski area in Massachusetts; the resilience of the Connecticut ski scene; Worcester’s cross-country ski park; the fate of Worcester’s once-thriving network of ropetow bumps; how Ski Ward endures; the distinct ski areas of North Conway; the explosion of the Mount Washington backcountry ski scene; the North Conway-Worcester connection; the appeal and frustrations of Attitash; brainstorming solutions for the atrocious summit triple; Vail Resorts’ evolving uphill policies; the odds that currently proposed expansions at Gunstock, Ragged, Sunapee, and Waterville Valley succeed; the buzz around Ragged; thoughts on Loon’s new eight-pack; the right balance between uphill and downhill capacity; Loon’s undersized gondola; the twisted history and fate of Tenney; whether Les Otten’s huge ski area development at The Balsams could succeed; the secret behind Magic’s comeback; beef with Mad River Glen; thoughts on the evolution of Stowe under Vail; how the Indy, Epic, and Ikon passes have changed New England skiing for the better; whether Vail’s crowd-management efforts will be enough to offset exploding Epic Pass sales; why the success of Hermitage Club matters to the average skier; whether the club will succeed this time; Boyne’s purchase of Shawnee Peak; the revitalizations of Saddleback and Bosquet under socially conscious investment groups; and Vail Mountain versus Beaver CreekWhy I thought that now was a good time for this interviewBecause Sutner’s column begins every year on Thanksgiving week, just as the Northeast ski season (typically) ramps up in earnest. It seemed like a good time to survey the happenings of New England skiing, from the concussive impacts of the Epic and Ikon Passes to New Hampshire resort expansions to the diligent multi-generational families running Massachusetts ski areas. And I wanted to help promote his column, a fine piece of weekly journalism that will make your ski season better.What I got wrongDuring the interview, I estimated the number of ski areas in New England to be “80 or 90 or maybe more.” The correct number is 90, according to the National Ski Areas Association.Why you should read Sutner’s columnBecause it’s focused, intelligent, researched, fact-checked, spell-checked, and generally just the sort of professional-level writing that is increasingly subsumed by the LOLing babble of the emojisphere. That’s fine – everyone is lost in the scroll. But as the pillars of ski journalism burn and topple around us, it’s worth supporting whatever’s left. Gannett, the parent company of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, has imposed fairly stringent paywalls on his work. While I think these local papers are best served by offering a handful of free articles per month, the paper is worth supporting if it’s your local – in the same way you might buy a local ski pass to complement your Epkon Pass. Good, consistent writing is not so easy to find. Sutner delivers. Support his craft.Where you can read Sutner’s columnSutner’s column kicks off Thanksgiving week each year and runs until April. This season’s inaugural edition, released yesterday, starts, as usual, close to his home base of Worcester. A preview:The last time I checked in with Chris Stimpson in this column he was a University of Vermont student on a barnstorming van tour of Western ski areas with a band of fellow collegiate free skiers.Stimpson, now 28, is the new media spokesman and public relations manager for Wachusett Mountain Ski Area as of this season, and also serves as the ski area’s terrain park manager. He’s part of a group of third-generation Crowley family members who occupy key roles at the thriving family business founded by their grandfather, Ralph Crowley, in 1969.Stimpson’s cousin David Crowley Jr. is the operations manager, and cousin Courtney Crowley is the new head of group sales. …What this generational shift in the making means for Wachusett customers is that the independent ski area is in solid, experienced family hands for the future and is not likely to ever be sold off to a big corporate chain.Read more…A few of Sutner’s past columns:Earliest Ski-Area Opening in Northeast Goes to Wachusett (Nov. 27, 2020)Winchester a Fresh Voice on Northeast Ski Scene (Dec. 9, 2020)New Hampshire’s Black Mountain ‘Is Like a Trip into the Past’ (Feb. 17, 2021)Ski Industry Makes Strides Toward Inclusion (March 31, 2021)Follow up on stuff we talked about in the interviewFollow Shaun on Twitter, Instagram, and FacebookShaun and I discussed this lost ski area in Van Cortland Park in The Bronx. A ropetow operation may have also briefly existed in Queens.We also talked about the story I had yet to write about a new owner buying Woodbury ski area in Connecticut – that story is here.Shaun talked about the lost Mt. Atatic Ski area - it looks like a cool little operation. Here’s a great write-up about the backcountry scene there on Lift Line Blog.Shaun references the Wa-Wa-Wachusett theme song in our interview. Here you go:Support The Storm by shopping at our partners:Patagonia | Helly Hansen | Rossignol | Salomon | Utah Skis | Berg’s Ski and Snowboard Shop | Peter Glenn | Kemper Snowboards | Gravity Coalition | Darn Tough | Skier's Peak | Hagan Ski Mountaineering | Moosejaw | Skis.com |The House | Telos Snowboards | Christy Sports | Evo | Hotels Combined | Black Diamond | Eastern Mountain Sports Subscribe at www.stormskiing.com

Nebraska enters Friday's regular-season finale against No. 16 Iowa short-handed, player-wise and coaching staff-wise. What should Hawkeye fans expect from the Huskers? The Gazette's https://twitter.com/jsteppe1 (John Steppe) is joined by https://twitter.com/HuskerExtraPG (Parker Gabriel) of the Lincoln Journal Star on Hawk Off The Press this week to get a better understanding. Then, our text subscribers get their Iowa football questions answered. https://joinsubtext.com/hawkeyes (Sign up for free here).

Another week you could find plenty of faults in an Iowa football performance. But another Iowa win. The Hawkeyes are 9-2 after a 33-23 win over Illinois and that's all that matters. The Gazette's Mike Hlas and John Steppe discuss their takeaways on The Final Score, our Hawkeye football postgame podcast.

On this week's Gazette: After a vote by the state ethics commission, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may have to return at least part of the $5.1 million he was paid for his COVID-19 leadership book. Also, our political observer Alan Chartock discusses his conversation with Republican Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay. The American Lung Association's fourth annual “State of Lung Cancer” report, finds Black New Yorkers are more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer. Photo courtesy of JCOPE.

On this week's edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: Reynolds is popular, but has Sand in her gears; and Miller-Meeks has financial disclosure problems On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met. This week's show is hosted by The Gazette's James Lynch and features Tom Barton of the Quad-City Times, Lee newspapers Statehouse Bureau chief Erin Murphy, and Gazette opinion editor Todd Dorman. The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Surf Zombies.

Bret Bielema won't get a return to Kinnick Stadium this week after he tested positive for COVID-19, but his rebuild at Illinois does appear to be ahead of schedule. The Gazette's John Steppe talks to Bob Asmussen of the Champaign News-Gazette about Bielema's work with the Illini and Saturday's Illinois-Iowa game on Hawk Off The Press. Plus, John answers questions from our Hawkeye Sports Update text subscribers. https://joinsubtext.com/hawkeyes (Sign up for free).

Have you ever looked at the "Rants and Raves" section on Craigslist? It's about what you'd expect: a handful of eccentric lunatics screaming into the void about potholes, potheads, and the luciferian globalist cabal that wants to teach your toddler how to put condoms on bananas. Well, Sam's local paper hosts a similar discussion in print, and this week, we're taking a look at two of it's most accomplished civilian authors. Take your thinking caps off, and stow them under the seat in front of you, friends. We're not going to need them on this trip...

The box score doesn't look like an Iowa win, but the scoreboard does. The Gazette's John Steppe and Mike Hlas share their initial postgame thoughts after No. 20 Iowa's 27-22 win over Minnesota on The Final Score, our Hawkeye postgame podcast.

On this week's edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: 1st District developments, redistricting sends lawmakers on the move, and infrastructure bill impact. On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met. This week's show is hosted by The Gazette's James Lynch and features Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, Tom Barton of the Quad-City Times, Lee newspapers Statehouse Bureau chief Erin Murphy, and Gazette opinion editor Todd Dorman. The show was produced by Katie Brumbeloe, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Chillin' with Jeris and Surf Zombies.

The Gazette's John Steppe previews Saturday's Minnesota-Iowa game with The Des Moines Register's Kennington Lloyd Smith III and The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Randy Johnson on this episode of Hawk Off The Press. Kennington discusses Iowa's quarterback change to Alex Padilla, the rushing game's resurgence against Northwestern, young receivers emerging and the "Doughboyz" forcing turnovers again. Randy tells us what to expect from a Gophers team that has been hit hard by injuries.

On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” Associate Sports Editor Ken Schott gets you ready for Saturday's Dutchman Shoes Trophy football game between Union and RPI. Schott has interviews with Union head coach Jeff Beherman, quarterback Will Bellamy and running back Ike Irabor, and RPI head coach Ralph Isernia, quarterback George Marinopoulos and linebacker Austin Charles. Gazette sportswriter Adam Shinder previews this weekend's Section II high school football championship games. “The Parting Schotts Podcast” is available wherever you get your podcasts and at https://dailygazette.com/category/sports/parting-schotts.

On this episode of "The Neutral Zone," Phil Milani and Aric DiLalla are recording live from Breckenridge Brewery's Farm House in Littleton to break down the Broncos' impressive win over the Cowboys. The fellas are joined by the Denver's Gazette's George Stoia to discuss what worked so well for the Broncos, where the win ranks since Super Bowl 50 and how it changes expectations for the 2021 season. Want more of "The Neutral Zone"? Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. Make sure to leave a rating and review or a comment if you're watching on YouTube.

Patty Ann was a 17-year-old student at South High in 1984. Her two best friends are also named Patty. Patty Dansereau and Patti Weagle L'Ecuyer. Collectively, they were known as “the 3 Patties.” On a cold, rainy Wednesday night in October, Patty Ann called her mom to say she'd be late coming home from her boyfriend's house where she was playing Trivial Pursuit. The next morning, family and police discovered her belongings in an alley near the train tracks and her body in a window well at a factory on Grand Street. Before her passing, Patty's mother told the Telegram and Gazette, "I still have to believe that somebody saw something that night, or the murderer has told somebody something, and that person or persons aren't talking. Maybe someday someone will come forward, and that will be the break in this case that we've been waiting for...” Thank you to Heather Bish for shining a light on this Worcester cold case.

On this week's edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: Elections, elections and elections On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met. This week's show is hosted by The Gazette's James Lynch and features Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, Tom Barton of the Quad-City Times, Lee newspapers Statehouse Bureau chief Erin Murphy, and Gazette opinion editor, Todd Dorman. The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Milk & Eggs.

After two straight games of virtually unwatchable offense (and almost season-long doubts), will Northwestern provide Iowa a chance to fill up the box score? The Gazette's John Steppe previews Saturday's game with Chloe Peterson and Robert Read of The Daily Iowan on this week's episode of Hawk Off The Press, our Hawkeye football podcast. Plus, a Wildcats scouting report from JP Acosta, a Sports Illustrated contributing writer.

On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” Associate Sports Editor Ken Schott talks with former UAlbany men's basketball coach Will Brown about his new role as head coach and general manager of the Albany Patroons. Gazette sportswriter Adam Shinder previews the Section II high school football semifinal playoff games. The Breeders' Cup takes place this weekend, and Gazette sportswriter Mike MacAdam examines the field. “The Parting Schotts Podcast” is available wherever you get your podcasts and at https://dailygazette.com/category/sports/parting-schotts.

In this episode of NPR's investigative podcast Embedded, Chris Benderev reports on the trial of a man who shot and killed five people in the office of an Annapolis newspaper in 2018. Embedded's series of episodes on the Capitol Gazette began in February of 2021. Listen via Apple, Spotify, or Google.

Another day of offensive struggles, another one-sided loss for the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Gazette's John Steppe and Mike Hlas share their initial postgame thoughts after No. 9 Iowa's 27-7 loss to Wisconsin on The Final Score, our Hawkeye postgame podcast.

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This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for  Saturday, October 30, and Sunday, October 31. October's last weekend will end with sunny skies, and the warmest weather we should see for a little bit, so don't be afraid to get out and enjoy yourself. On Saturday it will be partly sunny, with a high near 55 degrees. A north wind will blow from 5 to 10 mph. Saturday night it will be partly cloudy and a little windier, with a low temperature around 41 degrees. It will be windier still Sunday, and that wind appears to be cold, as the high temperature will drop down to 51 degrees with sunny skies. Sunday the temperature will drop still further, with a low around 31 degrees.  Thankfully Halloween night should not feature the miserable rain that Iowa traditionally offers trick-or-treaters, but warm costume ideas will be welcome ones. The week concluded with some drama for the Cedar Rapids Mayoral race right before election day next Tuesday.  Entrepreneur Steve Shriver said Friday he quit as chair of Amara Andrews' campaign for Cedar Rapids mayor over “strategic differences” after her team acknowledged it coordinated with a political action committee to send a mailer to voters criticizing rival Tiffany O'Donnell, claiming she has touted herself as a Reagan Republican while hiding more extreme conservative views. Shriver said this is an example of the pernicious side of politics that he doesn't want to be a part of. This is a continuation of an open debate among candidates about whether party affiliation should be brought into the mayoral race at all. Andrews, billing h erself as a progressive Democrat, has argued partisan views should be a part of the race, while O'Donnell and incumbent Mayor Brad Hart, both Republicans, argue the mayoral position is nonpartisan.  I will leave it to you to decide why they are squabbling about party affiliation in a city that tends to favor Democrats. In the meantime I suggest you check out thegazette.com to see where all 4 mayoral candidates stand on issues that might affect you directly. If you click Elections at the top of the main page it will take you to our elections coverage, with the latest coverage as well as candidate profiles. Finally, whomever you favor, please vote in your local elections on Tuesday. Iowa business leaders said Friday they are concerned that expanding exemptions from workplace COVID-19 vaccination requirements — and protecting jobless benefits for those who refuse to follow a mandate — may result in unintended consequences or added costs related to the surprise changes enacted by the Iowa Legislature and signed into law Friday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The swift arrival of https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&ba=HF902 (House File 902) and its passage during Thursday's one-day special legislative session added to the frustration and confusion that Iowa employers already were facing due to vaccination mandates that now are in conflict with the new state requirement that they exempt employees who claim a medical or religious exemption. While business leaders are not fans of federal mandates in general, they are concerned about the Iowa laws for two main reasons: one, workers who opt to take the unemployment they now qualify for instead of complying with getting vaccinated could make the already challenging effort of finding employees even harder; two, a new layer of complexity when it comes to new exemptions raises the probability a business will make a potentially harmful mistake. Gov. Reynolds took the action on the same day that Iowa joined nine other states in a lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for all workers employed by a federal contractor, which is one-fifth of the nation's workforce. A Tama County man is dead after being shot by an officer in Tama County on Thursday. The Tama County Sheriff's Office received calls of shots being fired near the 1000 Support this podcast

On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met. This week's show is hosted by The Gazette's James Lynch and features Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, and Statehouse Bureau chief for Lee newspapers, Erin Murphy. The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Jeremy Jacobs.

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Friday, October 29. The 24-hours of rain will finally come to an end early Friday morning. According to the National Weather Service the rain will mostly cease by 7 a.m. After that it will be cloudy, with a high near 53 degrees. It will also be windy, with a north wind of 15 mph gusting as high as 35 mph. Friday night it will be partly cloudy, with a low around 40 degrees. The wind will slow down just a tad, at 10 to 15 mph. Turns out that the second time was the charm for Iowa's Redistricting efforts. After months of political and pandemic-related delays, and the rejection of the first plan for establishing new congressional and legislative election boundaries, the Iowa Legislature approved a redistricting plan Thursday for the next decade. On a 48-1 vote, the Senate approved https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&ba=SF621 (Senate File 621 )to create new congressional and legislative districts. The House followed suit 93-2, with five legislators absent. Although the consensus is that the plan is GOP-friendly, Senate Democrats said they backed it because it meets the requirements of Iowa law and the state's constitution. Also completed Thursday were some minor protections for workers who lose their jobs after resisting mandatory vaccinations.  These Iowans would still be able to collect unemployment benefits under legislation passed by the General Assembly and headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds for her expected signature. Iowa Republicans said Thursday that ideally they would like to do more to allow people to resist mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, but this appeared to be the most they could do without risking a legal challenge. Hunter Companies has withdrawn its preliminary subdivision plat for the former Transamerica site, saying it wants to gather more neighborhood input. Plans for the 51-acre site on Edgewood Road NE had been scheduled to come before the City Planning Commission on Thursday afternoon Hunter Companies is buying the land from Transamerica and pursuing a mixed-use development there. Neighbors concerned about the project created an active Facebook groupto make their concerns known. It had 129 members as of Thursday afternoon. Organizer Dave Watson said he thinks Hunter is a great option to develop the property but he wants the developer to work with the neighborhood. The list of concerns include saving trees, retaining retention ponds, providing more green space as part of the development; and worries about increased traffic. When it comes to drinking water, several Iowa communities have high-quality H2O, says a panel of celebrity judges. But none better, apparently, than the defending champions, Keokuk. The Iowa chapter of the American Water Works Association held a blind taste test Wednesday at the Double Tree convention complex to determine which Iowa community offers the best-tasting drinking water. Cedar Rapids was this year's host city. Keokuk's water emerged at the top of a sample of seven Iowa cities' drinking water. The entries were judged on appearance, odor, taste and aftertaste by a panel of local media personalities, special guests and a host city representative. This event was part of the association's annual conference. Are you a fan of trying in new restaurants? Get the latest restaurant openings & closings and more chewy tips from The Gazette's Chew On this newsletter. Sign up at http://thegazette.com/ (thegazette.com) slash chew  Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell your Amazon Alexa enabled device to “enable The Gazette Daily News skill" so you can get your daily briefing by simply saying “Alexa, what's the news? If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes or wherever else you find your Podcasts. Support this podcast

Hawkeye Report's Tom Kakert joins The Gazette's John Steppe on Hawk Off The Press to preview Saturday's Iowa-Wisconsin game, discuss what the Hawkeyes need to do to improve on offense and discuss the latest in Hawkeye football recruiting. [https://subscribepage.com/hawks (Subscribe to the newsletter)]

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Thursday, October 28. Rain is on tap for Thursday. According to the National Weather Service there will be a high chance for showers for much of the day, with a high of 51 degrees. On Thursday night the low temperature, interestingly enough, will only drop to 47 degrees, a sign of a slightly warmer Friday that will also probably have less rain. Iowa's COVID-19 numbers have received their weekly update, and it was reported that 117 more Iowans died of COVID-19. All of these deaths occurred in September and October, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. 100 deaths were reported the previous week. Statewide, the COVID-19 death toll now totals 6,965 since March 2020 when the virus first appeared in Iowa. New case numbers were roughly the same as the week before, with the under 17 age group again leading the way for most new cases. With COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 expected to gain federal approval by next week, state and local health officials are preparing to administer shots to thousands of young Iowans in the coming weeks. The Iowa Department of Public Health anticipates the approximately 284,000 Iowans in that age group can start receiving shots by the first week in November, pending an emergency use authorization. Vaccine experts are meeting over the next week to offer final recommendations on the two-dose coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. In anticipation of a surge in demand for the shots, federal officials have already purchased enough pediatric doses for the estimated 28 million Americans who will become eligible. A judge has upheld the firing of former Cedar Rapids police Sgt. Lucas Jones, saying the termination was supported by evidence of dishonesty and violation of departmental policies. Sixth Judicial District Judge Christopher Bruns, in an Oct. 5 ruling, said Police Chief Wayne Jerman's finding — that Jones was dishonest about an Oct. 30, 2016, traffic stop and that he had violated two departmental policies — is supported by substantial evidence and Iowa law. The firing was later affirmed by the city's Civil Service Commission after Jones appealed his termination. The reason given for firing Jones was that he had been dishonest when confronted about having his microphone turned off during a traffic stop.  According to the Cedar Rapids Police, a pattern of Jones turning off his microphone while in the field was discovered during an internal investigation into the shooting of a Black motorist named Jerime Mitchell. Jones shot Mitchell during a Nov. 1, 2016, traffic stop near Coe College after stopping Mitchell for having a light out on his pickup truck's license plate. Mitchell was paralyzed in the incident and successfully sued the city for damages. After much speculation of how the pandemic would affect Iowa's high-profile university athletic programs — with deficit projections phttps://www.thegazette.com/iowa-hawkeyes/with-loss-of-tv-revenue-looming-iowa-discontinues-4-sports/ (rompting the University of Iowa to cut sports )programs — final numbers for the fiscal 2021 budget reveal losses were steep but less than first feared. Instead of the expected $60 to $75 million shortfall UI Athletics Director Gary Barta last August cited in eliminating men's and women's swimming and diving, men's gymnastics and men's tennis, UI Athletics ended the budget year June 30 with a $42.9 million deficit, according to a new Board of Regents report. That is on the low end of Barta's revised deficit prediction from last October  Barta has previously said that https://www.thegazette.com/iowa-hawkeyes/gary-barta-restoration-of-4-dropped-sports-at-iowa-isnt-possible/ (even a reduced deficit wouldn't be enough to save) the https://www.thegazette.com/iowa-hawkeyes/save-iowa-sports-group-struggles-to-be-heard-at-university-of-iowa/ (men's sports) cut by the department. Although, it... Support this podcast

When Olivia Frances walks on stage, her infectious energy and powerful stage presence captures a room. Orchid, her latest bouquet of songs and stories, was described by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette as “irrepressibly sweet — and eminently likable.” Blending nature-inspired lyrics with ethereal vocals and organic guitar picking, Frances's unique “sunshine-story-pop” sound is a flowery mix of Colbie Caillat's catchy acoustic melodies, Joni Mitchell's unique vocal arrangements, and Florence and the Machine's energetic, emotive performance. Follow Olivia on Instagram @Olivia.frances. Follow us on instagram @ivegotasongforthat and @laurenandersonmusic.* *All music on this episode is either in public domain or written, recorded and is owned by Lauren Anderson, including master copies, publishing and copyrights. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ivegotasongforthat/support

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Wednesday, October 27. Wednesday's weather will be a transitional one between the sun of Tuesday and the rain predicted to come Thursday. According to the National Weather Service, it will be mostly cloudy in the Cedar Rapids area with a high near 58 degrees. A southeast wind of 15 mph could gust as high as 25 mph. There will be a low of 45 degrees Wednesday night, with a possibility for rain as it turns into Thursday morning. A report of sexual assault at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at the University of Iowa that spawned widespread protests earlier this fall now is at the center of a lawsuit seeking enough money to act as a deterrence to others. In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Johnson County District Court, UI student Makena Solberg — who names herself in the filing — reports being sexually assaulted by two members of the fraternity, which goes by FIJI, on Sept. 4 into Sept. 5, 2020. She identified the defendants as FIJI “members, directors or officers” Carson Steffen and Jacob Meloan. She accuses the two men of sexually assaulting her while she was incapacitated and then sharing video and photos of the assault online in a group chat. A former assistant track coach at Linn-Mar High School and owner of a high school sports photography and video service in Marion was formally charged Tuesday with holding a 17-year-old male student in a school office bathroom and sexually abusing him during a Sept. 27 “training program.” Kameron Martelle Beets, 29, of Cedar Rapids, is charged with third-degree sexually abuse, third-degree kidnapping, sexual exploitation of a minor, sexual exploitation by a school employee and invasion of privacy. The criminal complaint was filed Oct. 22 when a warrant was issued for Beets, but he wasn't arrested until 5 p.m. Monday by Marion and Cedar Rapids police in southwest Cedar Rapids. The complaint was made public Tuesday when Beets made an initial appearance in Linn County District Court. MidAmerican Energy is adding sun power to its renewable energy portfolio, utility officials said Tuesday. The Des Moines-based energy company is taking the final steps to flip the switch at its first utility-scale solar energy project located in Waterloo. In mid-November, MidAmerican will power-up the 3-MW Waterloo solar project, made up of nearly 10,000 solar panels with capacity to serve nearly 650 average Iowa homes. In addition to the Waterloo solar array, MidAmerican plans to have more projects online this year elsewhere in Iowa that will add 61 megawatts of solar power.  According to the Associated Press, the U.S. moved a step closer to expanding COVID-19 vaccinations for millions more children as a panel of government advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer's shots for 5- to 11-year-olds. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously, with one abstention, that the vaccine's benefits in preventing COVID-19 in that age group outweigh any potential risks — including a heart-related side effect that's been very rare in teens and young adults despite their use of a much higher shot dose. The FDA is not bound by the panel's recommendation and is expected to make its own decision within days. Are you a fan of trying in new restaurants? Get the latest restaurant openings & closings and more chewy tips from The Gazette's Chew On this newsletter. Sign up at http://thegazette.com/ (thegazette.com) slash chew  Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell your Amazon Alexa enabled device to “enable The Gazette Daily News skill" so you can get your daily briefing by simply saying “Alexa, what's the news? If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes or wherever else you find your Podcasts. Support this podcast

On today's episode: UI and ISU slide in global U.S. News & World report rankings Linn County and Cedar Rapids will begin https://www.thegazette.com/local-government/organizations-may-seek-14m-in-american-rescue-plan-funds-through-cedar-rapids-linn-partnership/ (seeking applications from organizations) to receive American Rescue Plan funds An Iowa State student has become the https://www.thegazette.com/federal-government/first-woman-enlisted-infantry-soldier-in-iowa-national-guard/ (first woman enlisted infantry soldier) in the Iowa National Guard. Support this podcast

This is John McGlothlen with The Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Monday, Oct. 25th. According to the National Weather Service, we can expect a mostly cloudy day, then it will gradually become sunny, with a high near 52. It will be breezy, with a north wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Then tonight, we'll have areas of frost after 3 a.m. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 34. An Iowa City man was killed Friday evening while checking damage to a vehicle he was in that had just struck a deer and become disabled on Interstate 35, according to the Iowa State Patrol. 69-year-old Steven Kohli was a passenger in a Lincoln compact sport utility vehicle being driven by 66-year-old Michael Kohli on southbound Interstate 35. At about 7:25 p.m., an hour after sunset, the vehicle struck a deer and became disabled in the outside lane, near mile marker 45, in the southwest corner of Warren County. According to the crash report, Steven got out to look at the damage and was struck and killed by a pickup truck driven by a 69-year-old Minnesota man, who was trying to drive around on the right side of the SUV because of vehicles in the left lane. No other injuries were reported. Breanna Oxley announced Saturday she won't run for a state Senate seat — where she would have faced a fellow Democrat — and instead will run for a Linn County supervisor position coming open. Supervisor Stacey Walker announced earlier this week that he would not be running for re-election in 2022, leaving an open race for the District 1 seat. No one else has yet announced for the seat, which pays $119,198 a year and represents a majority of Cedar Rapids, including downtown and the south side. Oxley, age 30, a social studies teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, is the granddaughter of Jean Oxley, the first woman elected as a Linn County supervisor and the longest-serving member of the board. Like food? Get the latest restaurant openings & closings and more chewy tips from The Gazette's Chew On This newsletter. Sign up at https://www.subscribepage.com/chew (thegazette.com/chew) Support this podcast

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24. If you have chores or recreation that requires being both dry and outside this weekend, I recommend doing all that on Saturday. According to the National Weather Service, after widespread frost in the morning it should be sunny with a high near 56 degrees in the Cedar Rapids area on Saturday. Saturday night it will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 42 degrees. On Sunday there will be rain possible early and rain likely late, with a near 100 percent precipitation prediction after 1 p.m. There will be a high near 51 degrees. Thunderstorms are also possible, with rainfall totals of more than an inch accumulation predicted for the day. Officers investigating a https://www.thegazette.com/crashes/iowa-city-native-fighting-for-his-life-after-being-shot-as-he-drove/ (Sunday night shooting) in south Iowa City that has a 20-year-old Marine fighting for his life have identified a person they suspect to be “responsible for the driver's injury” and believe the shooting was “unintentional.” Although police say they know who the person of interest is, they have not made an arrest and are not releasing their name while investigation into the incident continues. At 6:37 p.m. Sunday, officers found Gabriel Heefner with a gunshot wound to the head and unconscious in his vehicle, which had crashed into a median west of the Highway 6 and Sycamore Street intersection. He was the only person in the car. Heefner remains hospitalized as doctors work to control the swelling caused by the shooting. The Iowa Economic Development Authority on Friday awarded $1.5 million in tax credits to fuel the redevelopment of two downtown Cedar Rapids housing projects. Together, the projects will add 84 housing units. The first proposal from developer Steve Emerson will convert the upper floors of the Iowa Building, 211 Fourth Ave. SE, into downtown housing units. The state will give $750,000 in tax credits to the project. Another Emerson project also will receive $750,000 in tax credits to convert the old Skogman Realty headquarters, at 411 First Ave. SE, into the Palmer Building housing development. Starting Sunday, Oct. 24, Iowans in the 319 and 515 area codes will need to dial all 10 digits of a phone number to make a call. The https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/10-digit-dialing-for-319-and-515-area-codes-required-to-make-way-for-988-suicide-hotline/ (new requirement from the Federal Communications Commission) makes way for 988, a new three-digit number that will connect callers to the https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ (National Suicide Prevention Hotline )starting in July 2022. The national change will affect 82 area codes in 32 states. Are you a fan of trying in new restaurants? Get the latest restaurant openings & closings and more chewy tips from The Gazette's Chew On this newsletter. Sign up at http://thegazette.com/ (thegazette.com) slash chew  Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell your Amazon Alexa enabled device to “enable The Gazette Daily News skill" so you can get your daily briefing by simply saying “Alexa, what's the news? If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes or wherever else you find your Podcasts. Support this podcast

Nous explorons le chapitre 9 d'Harry Potter et le prisonnier d'Azkaban : «Sinistre défaite»... Invitées de cet épisode : Alix & Marjolaine, animatrices du podcast ASPIC, une émission proposée par la Gazette du Sorcier.  Pour prolonger l'aventure Harry Potter avec nous : Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/frequence934 Twitter : https://twitter.com/frequence934 Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/frequence934 Discord : https://discord.com/invite/ps7FgM2bfG Notre volière : frequence934@gmail.com Soutenez-nous sur Tipeee : https://fr.tipeee.com/frequence934 Thème musical : Moonlight Hall, de Kevin MacLeod (Licence CC BY 3.0) Jérémy & Marina ⚡

On this week's edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: A second look at redistricting and UAW strike On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met. This week's show is hosted by The Gazette's James Lynch and features Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier,and Gazette Opinion Editor Todd Dorman. The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Item 9 & the Mad Hatters

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Friday, October 22. The sun should return Friday, but not the warmth of earlier in the week. According to the National Weather Service, the cold air could result in some patchy frost Friday morning in the Cedar Rapids area, but it will not linger long. The high is expected to be 55 degrees with sunny skies. Widespread frost is predicted for the weekend and rain appears likely on Sunday. Round two of Iowa politicians politicking about redistricting appears to be going similar to the way round one went.  The nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency released a second plan Thursday after the first plan was unanimously rejected by Iowa Senate Republicans. The second plan addresses what was one of the stated concerns of those Senators, removing some of the irregular shapes found in the first plan. Using population numbers from the census, the agency is guided by law to, as much as possible, create districts that are square, rectangular or hexagonal so as to avoid irregular-shapes. The agency is also supposed to create these districts without political ramifications in mind. Political ramifications, however, are never far from a politician's mind. Just like with the first plan, Iowa Democrats declared public support for the plan. Also, just like the first plan, Iowa Republicans were not so hasty, leaving open the possibility that they could reject the second plan. It should be noted that this map will leave the status quo closer to the current boundaries than the first map did, which might appeal to Republicans enough to pass it, as they hold majorities in every level of Iowa government. Lawmakers will meet Oct. 28 to make a decision on accepting this second plan. If the second map fails to gain approval, the agency has 35 days to submit a third map, that lawmakers can then offer edits to. Discovered Sunday night with a gunshot wound in a crashed car, Marine Gabriel Heefner is “fighting for his life” in intensive care, his father told the Gazette. Meanwhile Iowa City police continue to investigate the shooting. https://www.thegazette.com/crashes/man-in-critical-condition-in-iowa-city-after-crash-gunshot-wound/ (Police said )Heefner's vehicle left the roadway and crashed into the median just west of Sycamore Street. The 20-year-old Heefner was found in it, shot in the head. According to his father, Heefner had been visiting his grandparents in Iowa City and on his way to pick up food when the shooting occurred. The bullet entered through the driver's side window, which was slightly open. Iowa City police said Tuesday evening they have identified a person of interest in the shooting, but an arrest has not been made and this person's name has not been made public. According to reporting from the Ames Tribune, two Iowa State University crew club members were participating in their first practice on the water when they drowned in March.  The revelations come as part of an investigation into the incident. It is believed that the inexperience of the members and the fact that the pandemic had kept the crew off the water for 18 months led them to disregard some red flags, such as a wind speed that was slightly higher than advisable in the club's own rules. Yaakov Ben-David, 20, and Derek Nanni, 19, died after the boat they were in capsized on Little Wall Lake, about 20 miles north of the university's campus in Ames. Three other members made it to shore, two of them with help from bystanders. Iowa State has previously announced it was suspending the club for at least the remainder of the current school year to give the club time to implement necessary health and safety measures. Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell your Amazon Alexa enabled device to “enable The Gazette Daily News skill" so you can get your daily briefing by simply saying “Alexa, what's the news? If you prefer podcasts, you can... Support this podcast

A https://www.thegazette.com/hawkeye-football/iowa-football-vs-purdue-live-updates-analysis-how-to-watch-on-tv-and-online/ (24-7 loss to Purdue) dropped Iowa from No. 2 to No. 11 in the rankings and forced all three phases of the ball to address questions entering the bye week. The Athletic's https://twitter.com/scottdochterman (Scott Dochterman) joined The Gazette's https://twitter.com/jsteppe1 (John Steppe) on this episode of Hawk Off The Press to discuss what needs to change for the Hawkeyes to bounce back, what this team's potential is, a mid-season evaluation of quarterback Spencer Petras and more. Then, Lisa Cellucci, head coach of the No. 1-ranked Iowa field hockey team, joins to discuss the Hawkeyes' huge win over No. 2 Michigan, the atmosphere at Grant Field and the unbeaten season so far. [https://subscribepage.com/hawks (Subscribe to our Hawkeye newsletter)]

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Thursday, October 21. Whereas Wednesday's weather featured the happy, sunny weather of early fall, Thursday will feature the cold and cloudy offerings of late fall. According to the National Weather Service it will be cloudy with a high near 55 degrees in the Cedar Rapids area. A wind of 15 mph will gust as high as 25 mph. Thursday night there will be a low of 36 degrees, and this will come with a chance for frost.  One hundred Iowans died this past week of COVID-19, the most deaths confirmed in a one-week period since April, though the number of new COVID-19 cases has decreased for the fourth consecutive week. State public health officials reported 6,907 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, compared to 8,167 cases the week before. The under 17 age group, one of the least vaccinated age groups, was again the largest age group with new cases. When factored in with the fact that those not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 account for 77.2 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations, it continues to bear out that vaccines not only slow down the spread of the disease, they reduce the severity of symptoms for those who have breakthrough infections. Linn County Supervisor Stacey Walker said Wednesday he will not seek re-election next year after serving six years on the board, instead taking what he calls a “leap of faith” into new endeavors that include helping progressive candidates get elected. Walker, 33, the board's current chair, was first elected in 2016.  His seat will be up for election in 2022 with the term ending in January 2023. The Linn County Board of Supervisors now consists of Walker and Ben Rogers, both Democrats, and Louis Zumbach, a Republican. They each earn just under $120,000 a year.  According to the Associated Press,  unemployed Iowans would be required to meet weekly with state case managers, conduct twice as many weekly work searches and undergo audits to prove they're actively looking for work under a new proposal announced at a news conference Wednesday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. Unemployment payments could be frozen if unemployed workers fail to meet the new criteria. Reynolds said some of the changes will require legislative approval but didn't elaborate.  Workforce Development Director Beth Townsend said more than 86,500 job openings are posted on the Iowa Workforce Development website spanning all industries statewide. She said nearly 68,000 Iowans remain unemployed. Iowa State Patrol Trooper Ted Benda died Tuesday, five days after crashing his patrol car while responding to a call in northeast Iowa. Benda, 37, was assisting the Clayton County Sheriff's Office with a call for service around 11:30 p.m. last Thursday when he was involved in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 51, about six miles north of Postville, the Sthttps://www.thegazette.com/crashes/trooper-in-critical-condition-after-northeast-iowa-crash/ (ate Patrol reported last week.) Benda was airlifted to Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wis., where he was in critical condition for several days. The accident remains under investigation. Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell your Amazon Alexa enabled device to “enable The Gazette Daily News skill" so you can get your daily briefing by simply saying “Alexa, what's the news? If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes or wherever else you find your Podcasts. Support this podcast

On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” Daily Gazette Associate Sports Editor Ken Schott previews the NBA season with Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press. Gazette sportswriter Adam Shinder drops by for his weekly segment on high school football. Schott then talks with Kristie Ackert, New York Yankees beat writer for the New York Daily News, about the Yankees signing manager Aaron Boone to a three-year contract and what the future holds for the team that missed making the World Series for the 12th straight year. “The Parting Schotts Podcast” is available wherever you get your podcasts and at https://dailygazette.com/category/sports/parting-schotts.

Penn State hosts Illinois for their annual homecoming game on Saturday under new Head Coach Bret Bielema. What are the Illini shaping into under the former Wisconsin coach? Scott Richey, who covers Illinois football for The News Gazette joins host Thomas Frank Carr to discuss Bielema, the team and how things have gone so far this season.    They start with Bielema's comments this week where he seemingly threw several parts of his team under the bus and Scott's interpretation of what the first-year head coach was trying to say. Then they get into what it's been like for Illinois fans and how they're reacting to their new head coach after several very unsuccessful seasons under previous Head Coach Lovie Smith. T-Frank also asks for Scott's impressions of Bielema so far.    After that they get into the roster as it stands and start that quarterback position, which has been a revolving door with the constant injuries to Brandon Peters. Richey gives an update on who might start on Saturday as well as his prediction on how Peters will fare this week based on what Bielema said earlier.    Then they discuss the offensive line and their abilities, and inabilities as players on the field. Richey gets into the strength of the Illinois offense and then says why the weakness of the offensive line is potentially more detrimental than what it does well.  The receivers are next and Richey paints an even bleaker picture for their capabilities through seven weeks of the season. Finally they end on a positive note for the Illini, focusing on the running backs, which have been the most productive part of the offense.  After that T-Frank brings up Bielema's comments from earlier this week and pushes back on what the head coach had to say about his defensive line. They get into the scheme they run, the players they're using and the adjustments they've made this year.    Injuries have also been a big part of the situation so far and Richey gives an update on one key player at linebacker that won't play this weekend, and may not play the rest of the year based on some comments this week.    Lastly, they get into the secondary and how they've tweaked some schemes and players in order to play differently after a disastrous start to the season. 

In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and its activities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority (U Washington Press, 2021) presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state's inner workings but also served as a carefully curated form of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. Her research into the Peking Gazette's evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power. Sarah Bramao-Ramos is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard. She works on Manchu language books and is interested in anything with a kesike. She can be reached at sbramaoramos@g.harvard.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and its activities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority (U Washington Press, 2021) presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state's inner workings but also served as a carefully curated form of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. Her research into the Peking Gazette's evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power. Sarah Bramao-Ramos is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard. She works on Manchu language books and is interested in anything with a kesike. She can be reached at sbramaoramos@g.harvard.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

0:00 All that money the Broncos spent on their secondary is not paying off. 8:00 Woody Paige of Around The Horn and The Gazette joins the show to talk about why the Broncos didn't re-hire Mike Shanahan as head coach a couple years ago, why the Broncos could have but didn't draft Josh Allen, and Woody hints at a new owner and coach for the team. 33:45 More reaction to our interview with Woody.

What had looked potentially like a dream Iowa football season suddenly has a different tone. The Gazette's John Steppe and Mike Hlas share their initial postgame thoughts after https://www.thegazette.com/hawkeye-football/iowa-football-vs-purdue-live-updates-analysis-how-to-watch-on-tv-and-online/ (No. 2 Iowa's 24-7 loss to Purdue) on The Final Score, our Hawkeye postgame podcast.

On this week's edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: The “Big Lie” tour comes to Iowa and all politics are local On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met. This week's show is hosted by The Gazette's James Lynch and features Lee Newspaper Statehouse Bureau Chief Erin Murphy, Tom Barton of the Quad City Times, Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, and Gazette Opinion Editor Todd Dorman. The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Dream Thieves.

On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” Associate Sports Editor Ken Schott talks with Gazette sportswriter Adam Shinder about the latest Section II high school football news and Gazette power rankings. Schott and Shinder also discuss UAlbany and Union College football. Schott then previews the NHL season with The Associated Press' NHL writer Stephen Whyno. “The Parting Schotts Podcast” is available wherever you get your podcasts and at https://dailygazette.com/category/sports/parting-schotts.

The Gazette's John Steppe has two guests on this week's Hawk Off The Press, our Hawkeye football podcast. First, Mike Carmin of the Lafayette Journal & Courier gives us a Purdue scouting report and previews Saturday's game between the Boilermakers and Hawkeyes. Then, Vanessa Miller discusses https://www.thegazette.com/higher-education/university-of-iowa-will-pay-400k-via-title-ix-athletics-settlement/ (her reporting from last week on Iowa settling a Title IX lawsuit) and how that led to the announcement of a women's wrestling team.

The Gazette's John Steppe and Mike Hlas discuss their thoughts after No. 3 Iowa's 23-20 win over No. 4 Penn State at Kinnick Stadium.

No. 3 Iowa vs. No. 4 Penn State. Saturday brings the biggest game at Kinnick Stadium since 1985 and The Gazette's https://twitter.com/jsteppe1 (John Steppe) has two guests on this episode of Hawk Off The Press to help break it down and make their predictions. First, https://twitter.com/ben_jones88 (Ben Jones) of StateCollege.com gives us a Penn State scouting report. Then, Iowa News Now's https://twitter.com/gbecktv (Grant Becker) analyzes what we've seen from Iowa so far and what this game means for the Hawkeyes. » https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r2r3u0 (Subscribe to The Gazette's Hawkeye newsletter)

The Gazette's John Steppe and Mike Hlas discuss their takeaways from No. 5 Iowa's 51-14 win over Maryland at Maryland Stadium.