No classes are held in observance of Martin Luther King Day but that doesn’t mean Des Moines Public Schools takes the day off. First thing this cold morning the John R. Grubb YMCA annual MLK Day Prayer Breakfast …

Martin Luther King Jr. Day isn’t until Monday but events around the district were setting the stage for it heading into the weekend. On Thursday a committed bunch of students reported to the Urban Leadership creative space on …

The beat goes on. The great debaters at Roosevelt High School have done it again. The Iowa High School Speech Association held the State Debate Tournament on January 8th and 9th at the DMACC campus in Ankeny and …

Already a STEM stalwart and a perennial boys’ basketball powerhouse, Hoover High School is becoming something of a political hotbed, too. The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses are only three weeks away. This morning U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who is …

Wednesday morning at 9:00 the brand new Nolden Gentry Dental Clinic at Scavo High School received its first patient. Let the record show that junior Kody Lopez earned the distinction as #1. There will be many more where he …