Each Thanksgiving we like to bring out this news quiz about Thanksgiving weekend football at Iowa colleges, given that the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, University of Northern Iowa
“Mrs. Jaffray evidently believes it is entirely proper to bring the public into the very bed rooms of the presidents.” The Oakland Tribune ran a review of a newly published book written by Elizabeth Jaffray in 1926. "Secrets of the White House" was based on her life as head housekeeper for four pres
A long-ago newspaper article about Bill Clinton came to opinion columnist Randy Evans' mind last week because of the controversy that exploded over the Washington Post disclosures about U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
We are planning to observe Iowa day in the schools …to place special emphasis upon the things of great importance in the state…,” wrote A.M. Deyoe, state superintendent of public instruction, in a bulletin sent to all Iowa schools in December 1915.
One of Iowa’s two major utilities wants to spend – and charge its customers – nearly $1 billion over the next several years to modernize its grid, and advocates want to ensure that money is spent wisely.
Time slowly has healed some, but not all, of the wounds for Vietnam War veterans in Iowa, even though more than 42 years have passed since the last soldiers, one of them an Iowan, died in that war.
If our households operated the way the United States does, members of our extended families would be planning an intervention to get us to see the error of our ways.
Charles Holloway was an accomplished artist who was named the winner of the 1903 St. Louis World's Fair emblem competition. Somehow, though, he didn't get to make the emblem.
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