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With Montana’s first dog, Jag, frolicking nearby, that state’s bolo-tie-wearing governor, Brian Schweitzer, fielded questions at Sen. Tom Harkin’s steak fry Sunday in Indianola. A popular Democrat from a conservative Mountain West state, he shared his thoughts on the tightening presidential race, and he connected his own family history to the subject of immigration reform.

What is CSA? It’s food that you buy directly from the farmer, not the grocery store. It’s local farms providing consumers with fresh seasonal produce. It’s Community Supported Agriculture.

Meet some food enthusiasts and CSA farmers below the fold.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has denied Missouri-based LS Power and subsidiary Elk Run Energy their construction permit for a coal plant in Waterloo Thursday because of “failure to meet an administrative requirement.”

Air Quality Bureau Chief Catharine Fitzsimmons told the Iowa Independent that her office “turned the application back to the applicant because they [...]

A decision on a proposed annexation to Waterloo is expected Oct. 11. The City Development Board, a state commission, tabled a vote on the proposal after a five-hour hearing in Waterloo last week, giving members time to consider whether the annexation would comply with state law.

The area proposed for annexation can be seen below [...]

Elk Run Energy doesn’t have an Iowa office yet, but they are preparing to apply for an Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) air quality permit at a proposed coal plant in Waterloo, Ia. 

Last week from St. Louis, Mo., Elk Run Energy’s Mark Millburn said he expects to begin application for an air quality permit [...]

[Video] In 1930, Merle Bell was born in the same house where his grandparents died, on the same farm, the same 40 acres where he and his family, as he puts it, “sustained,” themselves through the Great Depression.

It’s also the same acreage that the city of Waterloo may annex to build a 750-megawatt coal plant.  [...]