His real name was Ira Pavey, but he’d earned the nickname “Hard-Boiled” because of his tough demeanor and lack of emotion. And he never cracked — even as he went to the gallows.
Sen. Rand Paul’s recent swing through 11 Iowa college campuses this past week was a reminder of how important some presidential candidates view the next wave of voters.
A little blue pill, popped one hour before a student hits the library, is now considered the key to getting A’s in college. College students are relying on drugs like Adderall and Vyvanse to meet the strains of a competitive college curriculum.
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch.org released on Oct. 8, 2015, an annual report that shows advancements the nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization made in the past year.
Iowa’s roads in the 1850s were challenges for horses, oxen or humans regardless of the season. Other states had experimented with plank roads and found them to be quite satisfactory — they were sturdy, almost impervious to bad weather, and they could be money makers.
Iowans boast that candidates have to come to Iowa, home of the first in the nation caucus, if they hope to sit in the Oval Office. But what role does Iowa play in the race to raise campaign funds?
A former Muscatine Community College student newspaper editor and that paper’s former faculty adviser were awarded the IowaWatch Free Press Champion Award for working Iowa journalists or journalism educators at the annual IowaWatch Celebrate a Free Press and Open Government banquet in Des Moines.
Donors big and small alike are pulling out their wallets in Iowa to support their candidates for the 2016 presidential election, but their contributions amount to little more than a drop in the bucket. There is, however, a currency in the heartland far more valuable than federally minted greenbacks
That was a question asked by farmers in 1920. And scientists at the Iowa State University (ISU) agriculture experiment station at Ames had an answer. Scientists at the facility tested several soil types throughout the state to find an answer to the critical question that was on farmers’ minds at the
