by admin | Aug 31, 2007 | Politics & Government
Five presidential candidates plan to campaign in Iowa over the Labor Day weekend. Four are Democrats. The lone Republican candidate to schedule a trip to Iowa this weekend is John McCain, who will speak at the dedication of a veteran’s monument in Neola on...
by admin | Aug 31, 2007 | Education, Outdoors
Iowa State University is getting it’s first "green" building on campus. A groundbreaking will be held next Friday on a pavilion addition to the ISU College of Design building. Mark Engelbrecht, dean of the College of Design, says the addition will be...
by admin | Aug 31, 2007 | Crime & Courts, Politics & Government
Two Iowa State University students believe they are the first gay couple in Iowa to legally wed. Twenty-four-year-old Sean Fritz and Tim McQuillan stood under a shade tree as a Unitarian minister from Des Moines performed the hastily-arranged ceremony in his front...
by admin | Aug 30, 2007 | News
The Gene Chizik era at Iowa State opened with a 23-14 loss as the Cyclones fell to Kent State in Ames. I-S-U took a 14-9 lead early in the third quarter, but where then never able to get anything going offensively. Chizik had this to says the team wasn’t...
by admin | Aug 30, 2007 | News
A Polk County judge Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning same sex marriages. Des Moines lawyer Dennis Johnson represented six gay couples who were denied marriage licenses and filed a lawsuit challenging the law. "I think it’s a great day for civil...
