Providing Backyard Entertainment while Enhancing Cold Weather Survival By Lowell Washburn If you enjoy feeding backyard birds, you’re not alone. Somewhere in the vicinity
Month: January 2025
Recapping a Year of Results
By Rep. Randy Hull (R-Hull) 2024 was a busy and successful year representing our families, farmers, businesses, and rural communities in Congress. I made
Trump Is Stocking His Administration with Self-Dealing Billionaires
Instead of corporate powers having to lobby regulators to get special favors, corporate officials will become the regulators. By Jim Hightower Howard Lutnick
Kill the ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Bill
We shouldn’t muzzle real people in favor of corporations. By Sonali Kolhatkar This fall, shortly after the election, the House passed a dangerous
Jimmy Carter Exemplified the Role of President as Diplomat
By David Skidmore Professor of Political Science, Drake University The news of Jimmy Carter’s passing takes me back to 1976, a year that marked
This Robot Could Find Nitrate Hot Spots by Crawling Through Tile Drainage
ISU developers say it would help farmers and water quality. By Cami Koons Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to
America’s 250th Birthday Prompts Rethinking of Historical Markers
A historical marker in Vancouver, Wash., celebrates the “civilization of Washington,” by white explorers, erasing the presence of Indigenous people who lived in the area
Trump To Be Sentenced in Hush Money Case but Avoid Jail Time
President-elect Donald Trump prepares to speak at the conservative gathering AmericaFest in Phoenix on Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo by Gage Skidmore | CC BY-SA 2.0)
Iowa, Texas and 13 More States Sue Feds on Housing Efficiency Standards
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined Texas and 13 other GOP-led states to fight the federal government’s “radical energy efficiency standards” that they say make
Iowa Ag Leaders Cheer U.S. Victory in GMO Trade Dispute Against Mexico
Corn growing in a western Iowa field in August 2023. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Corn farmers in Iowa, and across the country, will
