Priorities at the 2018 Iowa General Assembly that started in Jan. 8 will clash, state legislative leaders said. Even when they don’t clash, there’s a question of how
“Girl From Iowa Farm Leads Men in Quest for World’s Cattle Prize”. The headline in the Anniston (Alabama) Star newspaper in July 1927 was similar to others in newspapers across the country.
Last week was a time for setbacks in the United States. The only question is which setback was greater.
Was it President Donald Trump’s standing in the eyes of
When her black cat rapidly dropped from a healthy 14 pounds to a skeletal five pounds, it was natural for Arlene Blum to investigate whether a toxic chemical in her
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during November 2017 the government reported 4,758 new immigration convictions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, this number is down 5.3
Mary Harrah had been a popular teacher in Newton in 1890. Within just a few years she had made a name for herself in the family cattle business. The Des
Early in 1906 a group of former Iowa residents living in New York City decided to form a club they named the Iowa Society of New York. It was described
A new year is just around the corner.
But instead of tipping a celebratory glass of champagne on New Year’s Eve, a big tumbler filed with Maalox seems more
While taxpayer money doesn’t technically go to pay the coaches’ actual salary lines, taxpayer money does pay for the salary packages for most every UI coach, trainer, and full-time athletic department staff member. That’s because UI athletic department employees are UI employees, so they receive the
IowaWatch reporters covered a wide range of topics throughout 2017, ranging from how law enforcement officials handle their public safety duties to how we deal with health care. Readers decided which of the more than 80 stories we produced in 2017 at IowaWatch.org and in our weekly radio program, th
