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i9: Iowa landlords not required to provide air conditioning
BURLINGTON, Iowa (KCRG) – Another heatwave is here, but not everyone in Iowa has access to adequate cooling in their homes. An i9 investigation reveals that, in Iowa, there are no laws requiring that access.
Kody Hardin is a renter in Burlington who lives with his girlfriend and their 4-month-son.
Hardin’s home is modified with the family’s efforts to keep cool. Curtains block off the western part of the house where the afternoon sun hits hardest. In the bedroom, a box fan sits in a laundry hamper, which is placed right in front of a window unit air conditioner. The jerry-rigged set up is the main cooling system in the part of the house that Hardin rents.
“I spent time in the service. I know what hot is. I’ve been in hot temps. But this isn’t something we want to live in everyday,” said Hardin.
On the day TV9 visited Hardin and his son Khyler, the thermostat in the living room read 79 degrees. Hardin said, in heat waves, it can get even hotter.
“It’s 80 degrees in here, sometimes its 90 degrees in here.”
During the summer, Hardin says he, his son, and girlfriend basically live in the bedroom trying to stay cool. Getting better air conditioning would mean costly upgrades from his landlord.
“I’ve reached out to the landlords and the maintenance guy before in regards to maybe getting some central air put in or something just better in general,” said Hardin.
TV9 reached out to Hardin’s landlord, but we have not yet received a comment.
Air conditioning is expensive to install and maintain, and it’s also not a right for renters.
“In Iowa, landlords aren’t required to provide air conditioning,” said Patrick Bigsby, a staff attorney with Iowa Legal Aid. Bigsby said the law only stipulated that if landlords do provide air conditioning, they maintain it in good and safe working order.
That’s in contrast to winter, when Iowa landlords are required to maintain adequate heating systems, deemed just as essential as running water.
“We worry historically more about keeping people warm in winter. We have policies to do that. We haven’t invoked policies like that for extreme heat. We need to do so,” said Peter Thorne, a professor in the department of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa.
With climate change, Iowa State scientists say the state’s average temperature is up about 1.5 degrees in the last 15 years. That means we’ve had hotter summers and more heat waves.
“Unusually hot summers are becoming more common,” said Thorne.
That’s why Thorne said access to adequate cooling is becoming a public health crisis.
“Heat and extreme heat is basically the biggest killer of people in terms of weather-related disasters,” he said.
The U.S. has already seen the impact of dangerous heat. At least 16 people died of heat-related issues during a heat wave this month in Oregon, a state not used to extreme heat.
Some states like Arizona have made it a law: air conditioning is an essential service that landlords must provide to tenants.
A similar law in Iowa would benefit people like Hardin, who knows he won’t see relief until fall.
“We really don’t know what to do. Just waiting for a miracle,” said Hardin.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – UnityPoint Health hospitals across eastern Iowa have released the list of the most popular baby names for 2024.
The hospitals create the list using data from UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s, Finley, and Allen Hospitals in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and Waterloo.
Here are the top five most popular baby names:
Top five girl’s names:
- Charlotte
- Evelyn
- Harper
- Amelia
- Olivia
Top five boy’s names:
- Henry
- Oliver
- Theodore
- Jack
- Jackson
Here’s a list broken down by hospital and city:
Cedar Rapids:
Girl’s names:
- Evelyn
- Charlotte
- Harper
- Amelia
- Nova
Boys names:
- Oliver
- Henry
- Silas
- Owen
- Asher
Dubuque:
Girl’s names:
- Lainey
- Eden
- Amelia
- Layla
- Nora
Boy’s names:
- Cooper
- Henry
- Beau
- Oliver
- Brooks
Waterloo:
Girl’s names:
- Lainey
- Nora
- Adeline
- Ava
- Emerson
Boy’s names:
- Ezra
- Theodore
- Emmett
- Henry
- Bennett
Copyright 2024 KCRG. All rights reserved.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — — Owen Freeman matched his career-best with 22 points and Iowa cruised to a 104-57 win over New Orleans on Sunday.
The Hawkeyes rebounded from their first home-court loss, falling 89-80 to No. 3 Iowa State on Thursday in the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.
Brock Harding opened the game with a 3-pointer, but the Privateers answered with back-to-back layups from MJ Thomas and James White to take their only lead of the game, 4-3. Freeman answered with a layup and Payton Sandfort and Drew Thelwell each hit from deep to put Iowa in front for good and a 10-0 run made it 29-11 midway through the half.
Iowa (8-3) shot 62.7% from the field for the game (42 of 67), including 14 of 29 from beyond the arc. The Hawkeyes amassed 28 assists on 42 made baskets. Sandfort hit 3 of 4 from beyond the arc and finished with 15 points, five rebounds, four assists and a steal. Josh Dix and Brock Harding each added 13 points, with Harding collecting six assists, two steals and a blocked shot. Pryce Sandfort added 10 points off the bench.
New Orleans, playing its first game in more than a week, was 25 of 67 from the field (37.3%) and was just 4 of 24 from long range. White paced the Privateers (2-7) with 24 points, six rebounds and two assists. Thomas added 14 points.
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Iowa wrestling coach Clarissa Chun breaks down pair of dual wins
Iowa wrestling’s Clarissa Chun holds press conference after pair of dual wins over William Jewell and Cornell College
Iowa women’s wrestling took a good portion of its squad to the North Central Open on Sunday, securing three individual titles from Nanea Estrella, Macey Kilty and Kylie Welker.
Bringing 13 wrestlers to the top division of the tournament, with Danni Swihart competing in the B-Division, 11 Hawkeyes finished on the podium in the top division. Even without several starters, the Hawkeyes took second behind only North Central’s mostly full squad.
Iowa’s stars who made the trip to Naperville, Illinois shined, as Estrella, Kilty and Welker combined to go 14-0. They outscored their opponents 131-1 combined.
Alivia White was a surprise, racing to take second at 203 pounds. She defeated teammate Katja Osteen by fall on her way to the finals. Even without Jaycee Foeller, the Hawkeyes had White, Osteen and Samantha Calkins all place at the tournament at 203 pounds.
Accounting for only the results from the A-Division, which housed top wrestlers from each team, North Central had 166.5 team points to Iowa’s 136.5.
It’s hard to compare Iowa and North Central, given the Hawkeyes and CArdinals had limited lineups. The Hawkeyes were without Sterling Dias, Brianna and Emilie Gonzalez, Skye Realin, Reese Larramendy, Kennedy Blades and Foeller to name a few. North Central did not have former Hawkeye Bella Mir or 203-pound No. 2 Traeh Haynes for example as well.
Regardless, having two champions and five finalists suggests the Cardinals will be a challenger once again come the postseason to the Hawkeyes.
Here are the individual results for each wrestler for the Hawkeyes.
Iowa women’s wrestling results from North Central Open
- Rianne Murphy – 2nd at 103 pounds (3-1)
- Val Solorio – 3rd at 110 pounds (5-1)
- Cali Leng – 6th at 124 pounds (3-3)
- Ava Rose – DNP at 124 pounds (1-2)
- Allie Baudhuin – DNP at 131 pounds (1-2)
- Emmily Patneaud – 6th at 131 pounds (2-3)
- Nanea Estrella – 1st at 138 pounds (4-0)
- Cadence Diduch – 3rd at 138 pounds (5-1)
- Danni Swihart (B-Division) – 5th at 138 pounds (3-2)
- Macey Kilty – 1st at 145 pounds (4-0)
- Kylie Welker – 1st at 180 pounds (6-0)
- Samantha Calkins – 4th at 207 pounds (4-2)
- Alivia White – 2nd at 207 pounds (3-1)
- Katja Osteen – 5th at 207 pounds (3-2, 3-1 vs. non-Hawkeyes)
Match-by-match results can be found on trackwrestling.com
This story was updated to add new information.
Eli McKown covers high school sports and wrestling for the Des Moines Register. Contact him at Emckown@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @EMcKown23.
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