It all started the day after Thanksgiving when a shipment of 75-100 Christmas Trees came to our grocery store for sale to one and all. What an exciting time. The fresh smell of all those pine-fir trees was enough to make a kid of ten or eleven feel as if he's in heaven. It's 1960 and it's ...
The Iowa Board of Regents unanimously approved an agreement Tuesday turning operation and management of the University of Iowa power plant and water treatment plant over to a French business consortium in return for a payment of $1.1 billion to the school. The decision came minutes after the ...
Senator, and Democrat presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren declared recently that her goal if elected is "to be the last American president elected by the Electoral College" and her "second term to be elected by direct vote." The debate is not new to American politics-whether the Electoral ...
Washington, DC-In a letter sent to Congress last week, nearly 900 smaller and independent physician practices across medical specialties outline the potentially devastating unintended consequences that certain legislative proposals to solve surprise bills could have on their ability to care for ...
Washington, D.C.- At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced a final rule to move more able-bodied recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) towards self-sufficiency and into employment. The rule restores the ...
I begin with a personal story.A few weeks back, when the EPA (and White House) were messing around with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and the very lives of rural Iowans, I called the D.C. offices of Iowa Senator Charles Grassley. A very nice staffer took my question about what the Senator ...
November 30, 2019, is Small Business Saturday. Starting in 2010, American Express designated this day-the Saturday after Thanksgiving each year-to encourage people to "Shop Small." The financial services company reports that since the commemoration began, "Consumers have reported spending an ...
In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims - early settlers of Plymouth Colony - held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Many regard this event as the nation's first Thanksgiving.The Wampanoag Indians in attendance played a key role but historians have recorded harvest ceremonies of ...
As leading Democrats fight for ballot access, voting rights and diverse representation, their marquee presidential contest is hard to participate in and takes place in a state that is 90 percent white.So there you go. The east coast noses are up and snooty again. Oh why, oh why would anyone let ...
Historically across the state of Iowa, students with disabilities have not been making acceptable achievement gains. In fact, in a span of 12 years, Iowa went from 5th to 25th in national student reading performance. The gap in performance between Iowa's learners with and without disabilities ...