Iowa House debates marriage amendment and school funding
The Iowa House opens the 2011 session with a public hearing on House Joint Resolution 6 calling for a constitutional ban on same sex marriage. Senate leaders oppose the measure, and lawmakers also plan to set funding levels for K-12 districts for fiscal 2012 amid debates on base state aid and categorical funding.
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Students discuss mental illness awareness at NAMI Iowa meeting
About half the University of Iowa students at a US National Alliance on Mental Illness meeting are psychology majors or have personal ties to mental illness. Brett Brinkmeyer, a 31 year old junior, shared how diagnosis feels traumatic and how support groups help. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2004 and now Treks to UI psychiatrist visits and campus counseling.
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Prison nurseries cut inmates' risk of reoffending
A 10 year Nebraska study shows inmates in prison nurseries are less likely to reoffend than mothers separated from their babies. At the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women in York since 1994, nursery mothers like Khrista Erdman keep their babies Jeweliana with them. States including California and Illinois have launched similar programs to allow babies to stay with their mothers up to 24 months.
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Egyptian reform leader calls Mubarak to resign
In Cairo crowds defy a curfew as Mohamed ElBaradei urges President Mubarak to step down from Tahrir Square. Jets fly overhead and police reappear as the mass protest movement, now in its sixth day, signals leadership jockeying amid rising tensions.
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