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Democratic presidential candidate Swalwell to campaign in Northwest Iowa

SIOUX CITY -- Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell is back for another campaign swing in Northwest Iowa, with an event Saturday in Storm Lake.

Swalwell's campaign announced the house party will begin at 5:30 p.m. at 707 Bradford St., in an event hosted Storm Lake City Councilman Jose Ibarra.

Swalwell was born in Sac City, Iowa, and is a congressman from California. He has made many stops in Northwest Iowa sine 2017, including most recently on Feb. 16.

In this campaign swing, Swalwell, will hold nine Iowa events from Friday through Sunday. He is one of 21 Democratic candidates running to oust Republican President Donald Trump in 2020.

Read more: https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/democratic-presidential-candidate-swalwell-to-campaign-in-northwest-iowa/article_f8d6afb5-e78b-5234-b495-fb920eefbda9.html

Tribe says South Dakota governor not welcome on reservation

A Native American tribe has told South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem she's not welcome on one of largest reservations in the country after she led efforts to pass a state law targeting demonstrations such as those in neighboring North Dakota that plagued the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

"I am hereby notifying you that you are not welcome to visit our homelands," Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner said in a letter to Noem following a 17-0 Tribal Council vote on Wednesday approving the action. He told Noem that if she ignores the directive "we will have no choice but to banish you" from the the Pine Ridge reservation.

Banishment is a formal tribal process in which a person can be barred permanently from the reservation. Violations can result in fines or even jail time, but Bear Runner spokesman Chase Iron Eyes said the tribe's goal is to show its unhappiness with Noem and that "no one wants to go through the steps to actually banish a sitting governor."

"The notion of banishment has not been considered by the Tribal Council," he said. "''The president just wanted to make the letter as clear as possible as to what the options might be."

Read more: https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/tribe-says-south-dakota-governor-not-welcome-on-reservation/article_951d73c3-a790-5922-872b-0312d6e3eda5.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

Louisiana's The Advocate purchasing The Times-Picayune

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In 2012, The Times-Picayune was New Orleans' Pulitzer-winning juggernaut of local journalism, employing hundreds in a sprawling building in the city and bureaus in surrounding parishes, while The Advocate was the smaller, staid family-owned paper 80 miles west in Baton Rouge — respected for its state government coverage, but no threat to a New Orleans media institution that was as ingrained in the city's culture as Mardi Gras.

Just how much things have changed became suddenly evident on Thursday with the unexpected announcement that George and Dathel Georges, who purchased The Advocate's parent Capital City Press in 2013, have bought the 182-year-old The Times-Picayune from the Newhouse family's Advance Local Media. It marked the ending of a rare 21st century newspaper rivalry in the age of internet-driven media.

Both entities are privately held and didn't disclose terms.

The Times-Picayune name will survive. A story outlining the plans on The Advocate's website said both paper's flags will be on the new daily, home-delivered publication that will debut in June. And the papers will share a website under the nola.com banner currently used by The Times-Picayune.

Read more: https://qconline.com/news/national/louisiana-s-the-advocate-purchasing-the-times-picayune/article_90d669ee-867b-5c8b-8a82-b6c8114797e6.html

Cross-posted in the Louisiana Group.

Louisiana's The Advocate purchasing The Times-Picayune

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In 2012, The Times-Picayune was New Orleans' Pulitzer-winning juggernaut of local journalism, employing hundreds in a sprawling building in the city and bureaus in surrounding parishes, while The Advocate was the smaller, staid family-owned paper 80 miles west in Baton Rouge — respected for its state government coverage, but no threat to a New Orleans media institution that was as ingrained in the city's culture as Mardi Gras.

Just how much things have changed became suddenly evident on Thursday with the unexpected announcement that George and Dathel Georges, who purchased The Advocate's parent Capital City Press in 2013, have bought the 182-year-old The Times-Picayune from the Newhouse family's Advance Local Media. It marked the ending of a rare 21st century newspaper rivalry in the age of internet-driven media.

Both entities are privately held and didn't disclose terms.

The Times-Picayune name will survive. A story outlining the plans on The Advocate's website said both paper's flags will be on the new daily, home-delivered publication that will debut in June. And the papers will share a website under the nola.com banner currently used by The Times-Picayune.

Read more: https://qconline.com/news/national/louisiana-s-the-advocate-purchasing-the-times-picayune/article_90d669ee-867b-5c8b-8a82-b6c8114797e6.html

Cross-posted in the Media Group.

Mississippi River in Davenport now higher than historic 1993 flood levels -- and rising

Amid historic flooding in July 1993, the Mississippi River near Davenport rose to its highest level ever: 22.63 feet.

That record is no more.

The river hit 22.64 feet shortly before noon Thursday, the National Weather Service reported, and the water continues to rise.

The river is expected to reach 22.7 feet by Friday, the weather service said. Even with a dry weekend, it's not projected to fall below 22 feet until late Sunday.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/05/02/davenport-flooding-iowa-mississippi-river-higher-than-july-1993-record-crest-quad-cities-rock-island/3652538002/

Feds: Des Moines grocer defrauded food aid programs out of hundred of thousands of dollars

Federal investigators say a Des Moines ethnic store owner defrauded food assistance programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Authorities now want to seize three properties they say he purchased with the proceeds.

Osman Jama, owner of MidCity Halal Food Market, became the focus of an FBI fraud investigation after the Iowa Department of Public Health in 2017 flagged the store’s use of federal food assistance programs as suspicious because of abnormally high transactions.

Among other tactics, Jama and his staff would scan baby formula and other products in place of items not eligible for food programs designed to assist low-income families, according to a federal forfeiture claim filed last week in federal court.

The store at 2720 Douglas Ave. reaped $1,928,880 more in program benefits during a four-year period that ended in March than the average-sized medium grocery vendor in the area, the forfeiture petition says.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/05/01/des-moines-crime-iowa-ia-midcity-halal-food-market-scammed-federal-food-investigators-osman-jama/3643683002/

Joe Biden's challenge in Iowa: Going from great on paper to standing out in crowded, diverse field

Joe Biden looks great on paper right now.

He’s led each of the past two Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Polls surveying the massive Democratic field. He's got sky-high name recognition and favorability ratings. And he benefits from the perception that he is among the field’s most “electable” Democrats — a distinction that carries weight among likely caucusgoers, who are desperate to defeat incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.

But all of that polling was conducted before Biden ever began campaigning in 2020.

Now, after returning to Iowa for the first time as a declared 2020 candidate, Biden will have to persuade Iowa caucusgoers to support him not just because of his past role as a beloved former vice president, but for what he brings to the most crowded and diverse field of presidential candidates in history.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/05/02/joe-biden-iowa-caucus-2020-democrat-campaign-organization-strategy-building-first-trip-des-moines-ia/3651408002/

Government to house more immigrants in tents at the border

EL PASO, Texas — About 50 asylum seekers stood this week in a circle near a bridge between the U.S. and Mexico to hear an American attorney explain what would happen to them when they entered U.S. custody.

The attorney, Jodi Goodwin, told them they would probably end up at one of the Border Patrol’s smaller stations, which migrants call “la hielera” — Spanish for icebox because of their cold temperatures.

Goodwin advised them to wear their heaviest clothing or borrow clothes from someone else, and to eat a hearty meal before crossing the bridge. In a carrying voice, she repeated in Spanish, “Eat well and dress well.”

The advice reflects reality on the border, where a lack of space means some immigrants must sleep on floors in Border Patrol stations, while others are held in military-style tents next to an El Paso bridge. The government will soon open two more that could start taking immigrants Thursday.

Read more: https://www.thehawkeye.com/zz/news/20190502/government-to-house-more-immigrants-in-tents-at-border