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Candice Norwood

Web Producer/Writer

Candice is a St. Louis, Mo., native who received her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her master's from American University in Washington, D.C. Before joining Governing, she worked as a web producer for Politico, a politics fellow with The Atlantic, and a weekend White House freelancer for Bloomberg. She has covered criminal justice, education and national politics.

Gerd W. Clabaugh, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will serve as the interim director of Human Services, according to a statement from the Governor's Office.
Fairbury Junior-Senior High School has had students participate in random drug-testing system for two years where students and their parents are required to sign a consent form agreeing to urinalysis, reported the Journal Star.
The legislation sharpened its focus on unscrupulous doctors while easing the list of medical conditions that physicians could cite in allowing schoolchildren to skip required immunizations.
Concern about an undercount of Native Americans is gaining traction here and across the country.
More Americans are saying they need a variety of animals — dogs, ducks, even insects — for their mental health. But critics say many are really just pets that do not merit special status.
One thing is certain: Illinois’ population has declined by 157,000 residents over the past five years, making it one of only two states — West Virginia is the other — to lose people over the past decade.
Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers reached a deal Tuesday and planned to vote on a sweeping piece of climate legislation that would promote green jobs, end the state's reliance on fossil fuels and eliminate nearly all man-made pollution by 2050.
Hoosier taxpayers could be forced to pay the price for alleged sexual misconduct by Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr.
Some $2.3 million in unused funds from a $19.1 million federal grant for election cybersecurity for the 2018 election cycle is being rerouted back to counties that failed to spend the money ahead of that election.
South Bend, Indiana Mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday requested the city's police chief to issue an order reaffirming the city's police department's policy on body cameras.