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When I came back from my first tour of duty in Iraq, I spent a Veteran's day cookout with my uncle and his friends. My uncle's friends lived [...]
The changes could have an impact on November's legislative races, with field staff that was previously working for down-ticket races now being placed on the [...]
State law defines a voter's residence as the place to which they intend to return. College students can register at [...]
Four Northwest Iowa Democrats have made the cut to be delegates to the Democratic National Convention held Aug. 25-28 in Denver. The Iowa delegation is made up of 57 delegates who will make a presidential choice. Others will also be involved in platform committee decisions.
Seven of the 57 delegates are [...]
He's battled Wal-Mart for years and is particularly disturbed with the vacant stores the chain leaves in its wake when [...]
One switch was in Iowa's 4th Congressional District. The seat had been ranked as "Solid Republican" for incumbent Tom Latham. Cook has upgraded Democratic challenger Becky Greenwald's chances, [...]
"The [...]
In Europe a high-speed rail network links seven countries already. But Amtrak only has 632 usable cars in the whole country.
Unfortunately, John McCain's hostility to Amtrak over the years blew any chance of building a [...]
It's enough to make Tara pine for home!
Everyone's talking about whether Heath Ledger will join Spencer Tracy and James Dean (and a handful of others) in receiving a posthumous Academy Award nomination for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight." The movie's not out yet, of course, so all this buzz [...]
As you may know by now, bar owners are suing to try to get the new statewide ban on smoking in most public places tossed out. The Iowa Bar Owners Coalition and COBRA (Clinton Organized Bar and Restaurant Association) met with a number of lawyers -- including former [...]
Iowa’s new ban on public smoking, which went into effect Tuesday, is sending smokers to the streets to puff.
Now that smokers can’t light up in bars and restaurants, they’re congregating right outside those establishments’ front doors. Nonsmokers who might have felt relieved they could enjoy a meal in a [...]
At current pricing structures, $200/barrel works out to about $5.30/gallon or regular unleaded at the pump.
I’m going to hammer at this one last time because it is really imperative that people begin to change their mindsets about oil and energy. There will be no going back to cheap gas, ever.
The [...]
The SUV is becoming extinct due to record gas prices. Ford's answer? The 2009 Ford Flex.
The family watched"Ghostbusters" this past weekend which introduced the world to the iconic character of Slimer--later reintroduced affectionately in the cartoon version.Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me.China is desperately trying to prepare for sailing competition during the Olympics by removing an algae bloom [...]
But I am even more excited to learn that she will headline a $40 million ad campaign promoting universal healthcare, which will [...]
Excitement in the John McCain camp...the candidate has discovered "THE FACEBOOK," which is apparently a place on the interweb where you go to brag about how you have more friends than Hillary Clinton, who stopped getting friends back in...oh, around the time she dropped out of [...]
The treatment of Democrat presidential candidates in four steps:
1. WaPo (or some other MSM outlet) tries to manufacture a scandal, in today’s case it’s about Obama getting a better mortgage rate than the average.
2. Rightwingers drool and sputter over teh mega-scandal.
3. People with functioning brains [...]
By Emily Geiger
I guess if you can't represent Iowa, the next best thing is representing Iowa's smokers.
It appears that former U.S. Senate candidate George Eichhorn, who lost the GOP primary by a narrow margin to Christopher Reed, has found a new pass time with which to [...]
Tara and I are huge fans of the store "Steve And Barry's" and often take our kids to the store--and end up with bags full of cool clothes at a reasonable price.