😁 Happy Friday! Ames is on the hunt for Iowa’s funniest! Local comedians battled it out with dad jokes, puns, and clever quips. The top four—and the crowd favorite—advance to the finals tonight in Cedar Rapids. Get ready to laugh, groan, and maybe even snort a little!

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Today ☀ Hi 77, Sat ☀ Hi 68, Sun 🌦 Hi 80, Mon 🌦 Hi 71

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Kelly Malloy -- Carroll
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Betty Onken -- Carroll
Collin Schultes -- Dedham (6 yrs
🥂 Happy Anniversary
Jacob & Janni Nagl -- Carroll (16 yrs)

Part of the rally is related to the federal government’s retreat from student lending. But there’s more to it.

Matt Phillips

SoFi TechnologiesSOFI $28.44 (1.46%) has been an under-the-radar winner since the market’s tariff-related tumble earlier this year. It’s up roughly 200% from the market’s April 8 low, with the shares hitting an all-time closing high of $29.81 on September 22.

It’s easy to explain some of the upswing. SoFi beat expectations and raised guidance in both its Q1 and Q2 earnings reports.

But rising estimates can’t explain all the price appreciation, as the company’s forward price-to-earnings ratio has risen sharply from under 30x in April to roughly 55x.

Fintech analysts led by Devin Ryan at Citizens JMP Securities laid out their views on the stock’s drivers in a note published Thursday, saying that SoFi’s diversification into crypto and brokerage offerings is positioning the company for a profitable addition to its core consumer lending activities.

They wrote:

All that said, Wall Street is far from wildly bullish on the stock. The average price target from analysts tracked by FactSet is just $22, implying a 20% drop from current levels.

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Get ready to grab your forks, as the popular Kiwanis Club’s annual all-you-can-eat pancake fundraiser returns to Graham Park tomorrow (Friday). Kiwanis Club President Jason Schwarte says the pancake feed has become a staple of fall time in Carroll, and locals repeatedly make a point to stop in for a flapjack or six. According to Schwarte, each meal includes sausages and coffee, milk, or juice. The money raised benefits local programs sponsored by the Kiwanis. Schwarte adds the Kiwanis Club tries to be as active as possible in the community, and he encourages anybody wanting to make a difference in the lives of their family, friends, and neighbors to consider joining. People interested in joining Kiwanis can talk to one of the volunteers during the pancake feed, or they can message the group via their Facebook page, Kiwanis Club of Carroll. Remember to stop by the annual Kiwanis pancake feed from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Graham Park Shelter House.

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🚌 The Carroll Chamber of Commerce and Carroll County Growth Partnership (CCGP) Candidate Forum for the upcoming Nov. 4 city and school elections is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 21. Initially, organizers had set aside one hour for the event at the Carroll Recreation Center; however, the Chamber’s Legislative Committee decided earlier this week to extend the forum another hour and divide the candidates. Now, the approximately two-hour-long forum begins at 6 p.m. at the Carroll Rec Center. The first hour or so will be devoted to the five candidates who have filed to run for the two open seats on the Carroll Community School District (CCSD) Board of Education, including: Jeff Cullen, Hunter Harmening, Kristen Lundstrom (I), Angela Owen, and Dr. Charles Svensson. The latter half of the forum is now focused on Carroll City Council candidates: Jerry Fleshner (I) and Dee Svensson have filed for mayor, Jeff Cayler and John Lawson for the at-large seat, and Tage Henkelman and Kyle Bauer (I) for Ward 3. Deb Koster is running unopposed in Ward 1. These candidates have all been invited to the forum to introduce themselves to voters. Absentee voting for the city/school elections in Iowa opens Oct. 15.

🏴 A Harlan woman has plead guilty to assisting after the murder of an Earling woman back in July of this year. According to Shelby County District Court records, 34-year-old Ashley Elizabeth McWilliams plead guilty to a class D felony, accessory after the fact, for aiding 33-year-old Winston Joseph Leal of Harlan when he allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old Theresa Kenkel of Earling on July 31 at her home. A sentencing hearing for McWilliams will be held on Nov. 17 at the Shelby County Courthouse. She faces a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison and up to $7,500 in fines. Leal has pled not guilty to the first-degree murder charge, a class A felony, and faces a jury trial on Nov. 4. If convicted, a class A felony carries a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

🚔 The suspect involved in a hit and run accident earlier this week has been identified and located by the Carroll Police Department. According to Carroll Police Chief Brad Burke, a juvenile was discovered to be the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian on a scooter Tuesday morning around 7:24 a.m. near the intersection of Grant Road and U.S Highway 30. Burke says the pedestrian was uninjured in the accident and no further details will be released at this time.

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The Midwest Newsroom | By Holly Edgell

Livia Ziskey, a college student majoring in journalism, remembers the local newspaper being delivered when she was growing up in Omaha. Her father still takes the Omaha World-Herald, although he’ll be getting one fewer edition starting in early November, when the World-Herald and other daily newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises will stop printing on Mondays.

“He grew up as a paperboy delivering papers in his Omaha neighborhood,” said Ziskey, a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ziskey is an intern at the Lincoln Journal-Star, the Lee newspaper serving Nebraska’s state capital. It’s one of the dailies included in the no-print Monday change, but that doesn’t faze her — nor does the general uncertainty about the future of her chosen profession.

“You hear the same people say, ‘Journalism is dying,’” Ziskey said. “It’s not. It’s shape-shifting.”

That shape-shifting has Lee Enterprises and other newspaper companies on their toes, trying to adapt to changing audience habits as print readership continues to decline and people have more digital media options to choose from. full story

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