IPR | Hola America News https://holaamericanews.com The Midwest's Latino News Source Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:07:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://holaamericanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-favicon-32x32.png IPR | Hola America News https://holaamericanews.com 32 32 This family lost ownership of their house without knowing. Here’s the law that allowed it. https://holaamericanews.com/this-family-lost-ownership-of-their-house-without-knowing-heres-the-law-that-allowed-it/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:00:08 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=17647 ‘Quiet Title’ laws across the Midwest can disproportionately affect homeowners who don’t speak English, like Natalia Esteban who emigrated from Mexico over 20 years ago  By Kassidy Arena, Iowa Public […]

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]]> Excluded worker coalition asks majority-Latino city council for support https://holaamericanews.com/excluded-worker-coalition-asks-majority-latino-city-council-for-support/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:21:09 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=17108 By Kassidy Arena, Iowa Public Radio For the first time, the majority of the West Liberty city council members are Latino. And during the council’s first meeting Tuesday evening, a […]

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]]> How one small Iowa city continues to deal with the effects of a major outbreak https://holaamericanews.com/how-one-small-iowa-city-continues-to-deal-with-the-effects-of-a-major-outbreak/ Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:45:58 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=16906 By Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio Emilia Marroquin has experienced first hand just how much Storm Lake has changed in the past two decades. On a driving tour of the […]

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]]> It didn’t kill them, it made them stronger. An Iowa meatpacking family’s battle with COVID https://holaamericanews.com/it-didnt-kill-them-it-made-them-stronger-an-iowa-meatpacking-familys-battle-with-covid/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 10:52:17 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=16871 By Kassidy Arena, Iowa Public Radio (From left to right) Isabel Djaroun, her daughter Nadia, Alejandro Murguia-Ortiz and Micaela and Martín pose for a family photo in their home in […]

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]]> Many of the employees at Iowa’s meatpacking plants were already in vulnerable positions. Then COVID hit the plants https://holaamericanews.com/many-of-the-employees-at-iowas-meatpacking-plants-were-already-in-vulnerable-positions-then-covid-hit-the-plants/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:11:37 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=16855 By Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio Amner Martinez still doesn’t really know all the details from when his 74-year-old father Concepcion got really sick with COVID-19 near the beginning of […]

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]]> COVID struck the nation’s meatpacking plants more than a year ago. But worker safety is still a contentious issue https://holaamericanews.com/covid-struck-the-nations-meatpacking-plants-more-than-a-year-ago-but-worker-safety-is-still-a-contentious-issue/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:05:55 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=16841 By Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio In late October, Debbie Berkowitz, a worker safety and health expert and former senior policy advisor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, sat […]

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]]> Judge Delays Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s Sentencing As Defense Seeks Information On Other Suspects https://holaamericanews.com/judge-delays-cristhian-bahena-riveras-sentencing-as-defense-seeks-information-on-other-suspects/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 01:53:34 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=15324 By Kate Payne, Iowa Public Radio The sentencing of the man convicted of the 2018 killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has been delayed, after his attorneys requested […]

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]]> Iowa Governor Signs Law Banning Some Concepts Related To Racism, Sexism, From Diversity Trainings, School Lessons https://holaamericanews.com/iowa-governor-signs-law-banning-some-concepts-related-to-racism-sexism-from-diversity-trainings-school-lessons/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:10:58 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=14730 By Katarina Sostaric, Iowa Public Radio Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Tuesday that puts limits on government agency diversity trainings and school lessons related to racism […]

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]]> Demonstrators Urge State And National Lawmakers On Immigration Reform https://holaamericanews.com/demonstrators-urge-state-and-national-lawmakers-on-immigration-reform/ Tue, 04 May 2021 23:58:14 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=14259 By Kassidy Arena, Iowa Public Radio News The people marching to the Capitol interwove Spanish and English as they walked from La Placita on East Grand, but they shout one […]

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]]> Iowa Immigrant Organizations Merge To Form One Advocacy Group https://holaamericanews.com/iowa-immigrant-organizations-merge-to-form-one-advocacy-group/ Fri, 09 Apr 2021 02:54:01 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=14019 By Kassidy Arena, Iowa Public Radio News Two advocacy organizations for Iowa’s immigrants and refugees merged last week. The nonprofits decided to become one because some immigrant needs are still […]

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