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Barack Obama’s expected move tonight in Iowa to a more fully general-election mode shows Hillary Clinton’s predicted win in Kentucky to be much ado about nothing.

“Just as Kentucky joined the losing side after the Civil War, it is about to join Hillary Clinton’s bandwagon on the day its wheels fall off,” writes Louisville Courier-Journal columnist [...]

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has weighed in on the debate swirling around the economic and moral aspects of using commodities such as corn for fuel when food prices are skyrocketing and millions of people are starving or “food insecure.”

The dean of the Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences says farming often has been disrespected because Americans have just assumed food would be relatively cheap.

But producers aren’t so easy for the rest of the population to dismiss anymore, says Wendy Wintersteen.

During a meeting with the Carroll Rotary Club and in response [...]

Why the Provocative Pol Isn’t As Dumb As You Might Think
In six short years, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has cultivated a national reputation for attention-grabbing remarks that delight his conservative supporters and appall liberal critics. The latter find his rhetoric fanatical, nativist, and at times racist. But even constituents troubled by the congressman’s runaway [...]

Iowa’s Department of Human Services has launched a new informational Web site that encourages young adults in the state to remain loyal to friends dealing with mental illness.

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 [...]

It isn’t unusual for Iowa high school students Stacey Hoch and Venessa McDole, both peer advisors, to speak with their classmates about sensitive subjects. Thursday morning, however, they took their advocacy one step further by speaking in front of policymakers at a meeting hosted in Des Moines by FutureNet, an Iowa network for adolescent pregnancy [...]

HUMBOLDT – Humboldt newspaper publisher Jim Gargano sees parallels between Iowa’s burgeoning Hispanic community and his own Italian family.

Coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s in Fort Dodge, Gargano listened to his grandmother, Rosalia Maggio, speak Italian in his hard-working home.

“I learned both languages when I was growing up,” Gargano said. “Fort Dodge had [...]

Iowans are encouraged to submit their comments about the 17 individuals who have applied to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Iowa Supreme Court.
The State Judicial Nominating Commission will meet on March 6 and 7 to interview applicants. Those who wish to provide written comments should do so by writing State Court Administrator David Boyd, [...]