A boy can dream. While I do not have a ton of experience in agriculture outside of farming – and I do not have a formal education in it – coming from a different background with different perspectives can lead to one seeing agriculture in a different light. With this being said, the dream ...
Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) Chair Rita Hart issued the following statement on Sunday, July 21, regarding President Joe Biden ending his Presidential campaign: Joe Biden has served our country and Iowans well by lowering the cost of prescription drugs like insulin and passing the largest ...
Phishing scams have become really sneaky these days. They're these cyber attacks that try to trick people into giving away their personal info like passwords, credit card numbers, or even their social security numbers. The scammers use all sorts of tricks to pull off these scams. They pretend ...
Over two decades ago, Gene Takle, director of Iowa State University’s Climate Science Program, used a NASA climate model to explore what would happen if the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere doubled. With additional carbon added to the atmosphere since then, his predictions that were ...
With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who this past week was about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 ...
It would be an understatement to say this upcoming presidential election does not have the electorate fired up. Each candidate has their flaws, and neither feel like a once-in-a-lifetime, straight-from-central-casting presidential candidate. With it being a runback of 2020 no one was clamoring ...
Corporate ag kingpin Bruce Rastetter has made many investments in his career, but it’s hard to imagine a bigger payoff than his high-dollar political donations to Governor Kim Reynolds. The Reynolds-appointed Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) gave Rastetter what he wanted on June 25 when it ...
Eighty percent of Americans see our country as polarized. They see polarization as a blockade to governing because the two polarized political parties can’t work together to legislate. However, fifty percent of Iowans enjoy polarization. This is obvious because they support a candidate who ...
National Social Media Day took place on June 30 this year. Q: What comes to mind in observation of National Social Media Day? A: As an early adopter of social media, I appreciate the opportunity to use technology to directly communicate with constituents. Representative government is a ...
Dare I say dried flowers are making a comeback? If social media is an indicator, with posts of dried wedding bouquets and dried flower installations, then it must be true, right? (As we all know, everything on the internet is true, haha!) Now, some of you might be thinking “I didn’t know ...