Next week the Iowa State Fair starts another year full of animals, 4-H projects, lots of interesting people, politicians, and the most important part, food. It is not a state fair unless there is pork chop on a stick or deep-fried Oreos. This means clogged arteries and full bellies. If one ...
In Iowa newspaper lore, it’s the headline that had to happen at some point. In 2007, Mason City Globe Gazette columnist Richard Johnson tried to find it and came up empty. He wrote, “like all good mysteries, [it] remains shrouded in the mists of time.” However, through modern research ...
“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver — not aloud, but to himself — that ten thousand river commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey...” ...
The question has been asked recently, “What is the normal climate?” The answer is that there is no normal climate. Earth’s climate is always changing. In the past when it was cold, you could walk across the Gulf of Mexico from Tampa, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana. At other times ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently joined Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) to introduce a bipartisan bill to increase transparency and oversight of foreign investments in the American agricultural industry. The Farmland ...
This year marks the last year the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma will be in the Big 12 Conference. They have been in this regional conference for almost 30 years. They leave for the Southeastern Conference on July 1, 2024, which is also the same year the University of ...
What Iowa GOP lawmakers and Gov. Kim Reynolds were planning to do in Tuesday’s (July 11) special session may have started out as the most politically expedient course of action on abortion – but it could backfire in a spectacular way. Here’s why. Reynolds and the GOP majority under ...
Fifty years ago, founders of the Center for Rural Affairs knew that if they wanted policy to work for rural Americans, they had to raise their voices and grow a grassroots community. Today, policy remains a big part of the Center’s work. And, our work, as well as the rural communities we ...
In the never-ending media circus the world lives in, news comes faster and faster. Whether it is through social media or television screens, new information comes and goes before one even knows it. Sadly, this means vital information can be missed. For Iowa, there is one piece of legislation ...
I’m “pro-life,” you could say. I was reared in a strictly Catholic household at 216 Geneseo St., and sent to St. Mary’s School in Storm Lake where that regimen was reinforced. I matriculated to an all-men’s college run by priests in the Twin Cities, where I was fully schooled in ...