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Beth Dalbey, a longtime award-winning community journalist, is Patch’s national editor. She has been with Patch since 2011 when she launched sites in Iowa and provided national Iowa Caucus and swing-state general election coverage. She worked as a regional manager before moving to the national desk in 2017. Throughout her time at Patch, she has reported and written about local topics of national interest and is currently focusing on exclusive Patch content, including Block Talk, an only-on-Patch neighborhood etiquette column for which readers supply advice.
Dalbey and the newspapers she has edited have earned numerous awards for news, feature and government coverage, editorial and column writing, and overall general excellence from the Iowa Newspaper Association, the National Newspaper Association and the Associated Press Media Editors. In 1992 in Iowa, she led the weekly Dallas County News to win the INA's prestigious Newspaper of the Year award, competing against metro newspapers many times its size. She was the youngest recipient ever of the INA’s Distinguished Service Award in 1994. At Patch, she received the Todd Richissin Award for Excellence in Reporting and Writing for the “Menace of Bullies” project.
In Iowa, Dalbey’s byline has also appeared in the Fairfield Daily Ledger, where she was editor for five years; and in the Des Moines Business Record, Cityview, dsm magazine and other publications under the umbrella of Business Publications Corp., where she was the editorial director for several years. Dalbey also freelanced for the Des Moines Register and other print and digital publications
Dalbey grew up in Missouri and majored in journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. Except for a three-year stint as communications editor for a scientific institute doing ape language research, she has spent her entire career in community journalism. At the former Great Ape Trust of Iowa, she wrote about the world-famous resident bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha.
In earlier report, data was missing from New York, Los Angeles and other large cities, the FBI said, noting an alarming rise in hate crimes.
Science clearly links long-term exposure to the toxic group of compounds widespread in the environment to significant health risks.
Has the way people drive on residential streets ever endangered you or your kids? What can people do to slow down the traffic?
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Ice cream parlor dishes more than scoops; smart doesn’t begin to describe Maryland 9-year-old; “because a girl in California loves you.”
Much of the country is expected to see unrelenting 90- to 100-degree Fahrenheit heat with enough humid air to spark thunderstorms.
La Niña’s end after an unprecedented three years is generally good news, especially in hurricane-prone and drought-stricken states.
Destroying spotted lanternfly egg masses now means you won’t have to squish them later this summer when they reach maturity.
The ADL Center on Extremism report said Patriot Front, Goyim Defense League and White Lives Matter were behind 93 percent of 2022 incidents.
Some things you may have heard about the vernal equinox — also called the spring equinox or the March equinox — may not be all that.
It’s spring cleaning time. How do you get started? What’s the oddest or coolest thing you ever rediscovered during spring cleaning?
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Three quintessential Colonial-style homes range in price from $419,000 to $3.85 million.
Who would you like to get to know Wednesday on International Woman’s History Day, or during Women’s History Month, observed all month long?
The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s 2023 spring weather forecast calls for a wet start in some areas, continued cold in others and heat in the South.
A Calabasas teen has raised the equivalent of more than $1 million to help refugees and now soldiers fighting in the war in Ukraine.
High school has three students on elite nationwide “20 Under 20” list; people around the world help complete a bucket list; Medal of Honor.
The tough standards and testing under the coming EPA rules undoubtedly will reveal PFAS chemicals in more water supplies nationwide.
Many readers practically hissed their disdain for outdoor cats, but a few think felines should hang wherever it suits their fancy.
![The Poop On Free-Range Cats — And Your Lawn And Garden [Block Talk]](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/getty/790386/20230302/043551/styles/patch_image/public/gettyimages-1224128588___02163329709.jpg)
Monthly SNAP benefits in 32 states and the District of Columbia will drop by an average of $182 with the end of a pandemic-era program,
The bacterium Shigella, which the CDC called a “serious public health threat,” is spread in multiple ways, including sexual contact.
Location has everything to do with the cost of a house. Here’s what you’ll get for around $700,000 in California, Virginia and Wisconsin.
