Former Vice President and Democratic candidate for president Joe Biden will be in Siouxland today.
He’s expected to stop at Floyd Valley Healthcare at 3 p.m. to talk about rural healthcare.
There’s a community event planned for tonight at Country Celebrations Event Center in Sioux City.
Other candidates will also be in Sioux City for several events including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, Marriane Williamson, Former Texas Congessman Beto O’Rourke, Andrew Yang and Congressman Julian Castro of Texas.
A company has moved call center operations into Sioux City from a facility in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota.
Mass Markets center just east of the Sioux Gateway Airport already has about 300 workers, up from the 150-175 employed in Dakota Dunes.
The CEO of Mass Markets' parent company, MCI, and he says the new location has space for more than 500 call center seats and is looking to hire more workers.
MCI has around 2,000 employees and eight call centers in the U.S., with a ninth in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A blast from the past rolled into Siouxland yesterday.
That’s the sound of Union Pacific’s “Big Boy”. The steam locomotive stopped for a short time in Denison, Iowa.
A listener sent us audio of the event.
The historic engine is the only one of its kind operating today.
Crews spent more than two years restoring Big Boy.
It was retired back in 1961 after riding the rails for more than a million miles and was found at a train museum in California.
The steam engine is traveling throughout the Midwest to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion.
The locomotive is 132 feet long and weighs more than a million pounds.Twenty-five were orginally built for Union Pacific Railroad.