Siouxland will be hit by snow and dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills today through Monday.
The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has declared a Winter Storm Warning for a second week in a row. There is a blizzard warning Saturday and a wind chill warning for next Tuesday.
The winter storm and blizzard warnings affect Siouxland, including Buena Vista, Cherokee, Ida and Woodbury in Iowa; and Dakota and Dixon Counties in Nebraska from noon to midnight tomorrow night.
We could end up with anywhere from 6 - 10 inches of new snow.
Earlier this week we had more than 11 inches of snow in Sioux City.
Due to the forecasted snow and wind, a snow emergency has been declared by Mayor Scott to take effect beginning today, Thursday, January 11 at 5:00 p.m. A snow emergency declaration prohibits parking or leaving a vehicle unattended on an emergency snow route street, noted by a blue and white sign with a snowflake. The emergency snow route map can be found at www.sioux-city.org/snowmaps.
If everything goes to plan Monday, the Iowa Republican Caucuses will have a winner at the end of the night. But for Democrats it’ll be very different than past years.
With a Democrat in the White House, the Iowa Democratic Caucus was not likely to break records for turnout. However, this year the party has lost its first-in-the-nation status in the presidential nominating process.
Instead of debating the qualities of of candidates in person, starting Friday Iowa Democrats will start getting presidential nominating cards by mail. And those results won’t be announced until Super Tuesday on March 5.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Iowa’s law requiring boards and commissions to have an equal number of men and women is unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Rose wrote that it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
A lawsuit was brought by three Iowans who wanted to apply for openings on the State Judicial Nominating Commission. The panel interviews applicants for Iowa Supreme Court and appeals court vacancies and recommends finalists to the governor. They sued the state court administrator because they wouldn’t be able to serve on the commission because of their gender.
Rose ordered the court administrator to stop enforcing the gender balance requirement for that commission.
Governor Kim Reynolds is asking lawmakers to repeal Iowa’s gender balance law this year.
