By: Jaclyn Overton My oldest daughter just turned 5. Looking back at photos from the day she was born, I’m reminded of the pure, unmatched joy I felt. Becoming a mother was something I dreamed of more than anything, and it’s a title I feel so deeply honored to have. Read more…
Host Keesha Ward opened the 2024 My City My Health Conference with a request from the audience: Don’t just write down what you learn here today. Commit to taking at least one action to improve health equity. Health equity was the entire ethos of the My City My Health conference, Read more…
When Carol Mefford began her nursing career 58 years ago, nurses didn’t use gloves at patients’ bedsides. It was considered rude. She graduated from college the same time Lyndon B. Johnson passed Medicare. She worked as an oncology nurse at the beginning of the field’s development. She used to have patients Read more…
Hope Ministries will open a new 100-bed center this fall that will greatly expand the organization’s abilities to serve women experiencing homelessness in Des Moines. The new facility has space for amenities the organization hasn’t been able to provide before. Dedicated classrooms for learning instead of couches and kitchen tables. Read more…
By Macey Shofroth, Fearless staff writer Mary Harris had only been selling her food at Home Slice for two weeks before her signature cinnamon rolls became the talk of the region. Harris owns Taste of Comfort, through which she sells home-baked goods and meals. She’s become a staple of farmers Read more…
In the mid-1980s, Julie Gammack walked into a record store on Ingersoll Avenue in search of an idea. At the time, she wrote a daily column for the Des Moines Register. Filling 8.75 newspaper inches a day with something new and interesting was a challenge. The record store’s “Iowa musician’s section” led Read more…