David prevailed over Goliath in the famous tale from long ago using an unconventional weapon, his sling and a few stones.
These days, river rocks aren’t a potent weapon.
Voters showed strong interest in this year’s mid-term election in Iowa, so much so that one county ran out of ballots, election officials from across the state said when IowaWatch contacted them today.
Henry County, Iowa, ran out of ballots during the Tuesday mid-term elections.
Auditor Shelly Barber told IowaWatch she only ordered enough ballots for 90 percent of the county’s
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Iowa’s race for secretary of agriculture and land stewardship has gotten strong attention this year for several reasons, including:
While some first-time Iowa voters say they are well-informed about the 2018 gubernatorial race of Republican incumbent Kim Reynolds, Democrat Fred Hubbell and Libertarian Jake Porter, others getting ready to vote for the first time said they still were doing research.
Let’s skip the debate over whether our president bears even a smidgen of blame for contributing to the domestic terrorist incidents last week in the United States. Let’s agree we are never going to agree, so there’s no use driving each other’s blood pressure higher by talking more about that.
Young voters traditionally participate in elections process less frequently than their older counterparts. Some of them talk in this podcast about their first crack at the voting booth.
Each year in October, when the Iowa countryside transforms from gorgeous summer greens to harvest season hues of tan, some of the world’s top agricultural scientists and anti-hunger activists gather in Des Moines to compare notes. The occasion is the presentation of the annual World Food Prize.
Scientific and anecdotal evidence suggests that a person who abuses animals also has a higher likelihood of hurting other people. And that insight has begun fueling a push, at the state and federal levels, to slap a no-gun penalty on anyone convicted of animal cruelty, this Fairwarning.org report te
