When Brian Hornbuckle cranes his neck to the nighttime sky, he’s probably not pondering the beauty of the constellations, but thinking about what’s in the Iowa soil right under his feet. Yet he’s neither absent-minded, nor a contradiction. He’s just a man who has found his niche – where astronomy, p
Pete Wilson, a New Orleans resident and 2009 graduate of the University of Iowa masters journalism program, recently visited Grand Isle, La., to take stock of the BP oil spill. “I kept hearing … the situation was worse than what was being reported, so I went down to Grand Isle to see for myself,” Wi
