by Matt Kelley | Jul 30, 2011 | Human Interest, Recreation / Entertainment
Thousands of cyclists will be crossing the RAGBRAI finish line in Davenport today. If they stop into the Figge Art Museum, they can check out a nude photograph of seven time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. The photo was taken in 1999 by Annie Leibovitz. The...
by Dar Danielson | Jul 30, 2011 | Business, Education, Politics & Government
The administrator of the U.S.D.A.’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS), Jonathan Adelstein, visited a north-central Iowa farm near Rudd this week to see how a fiber-optic network installed by a local independent telecommunications company is working. OmniTel Communications...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 30, 2011 | Business, Politics & Government
All five Iowa congressmen voted against the plan the Republican leader of the U.S. House presented as a way of dealing with the nation’s debt problem. The plan from Republican House Speaker John Boehner would have authorized a limited increase in the...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 29, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A Texas man is in an Iowa City hospital, recovering from a mid-morning plane crash in southeast Iowa. A witness called authorities to report seeing a plane crash in a corn field near Salem, Iowa. State troopers found the small, single engine plane in the field and...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 29, 2011 | News
An Iowa Policy Project report concludes state funding for public K-through-12 schools has been stabilized, but state support of the three state universities has declined “precipitously” since 1997. Andrew Cannon, who holds a masters in public policy from...