Plant researchers at Iowa State University are working together with counterparts at the University of Florida, Wisconsin and Washington State University to improve the breeding of a summer favorite. ISU agronomy professor Thomas Lubberstedt has worked on improving field corn varieties and says sweet corn research has some new variables.”You’re very much focused on eating […]Powered by WPeMatico
An air date is set for a documentary that will focus, in part, on the northeast Iowa town of Clarksville. The National Geographic film “Paris to Pittsburgh” details the effects of climate change. Clarksville Mayor Val Swinton says his town was targeted by the film’s producers because of two devastating floods in 2008 and 2016. […]Powered by WPeMatico
State Auditor Mary Mosiman says she cannot say whether a review of the state’s Medicaid program will be released to the public before Election Day. In June, Mosiman announced her office would examine the data to determine if Medicaid costs have been reduced since private companies assumed management of patient care. The move to privatize the […]Powered by WPeMatico
Several media organizations reported late Sunday night that negotiations between the U.S. and Canada have resulted in a new-fangled NAFTA — and President Trump will rebrand the trade deal as the USMCA. Midnight on September 30 was the deadline President Trump set for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico’s president agreed to renegotiated […]Powered by WPeMatico
A group working to get more young voters to turn out for Democrats this year has bought more than $100,000 worth of ads on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter aimed at millennials and Generation Z in Iowa. Haley Hager is the state director for NextGen America, a group that’s spending $33 million nationally on these kind of […]Powered by WPeMatico
The bow hunting season for deer opens Monday and the Iowa DNR has a series of meetings scheduled to talk with hunters about identifying and preventing the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. Wildlife biologist, Terry Haindfield says they are doing some new things this year to help those in areas where there have been positive […]Powered by WPeMatico
A court appearance planned for today for the man accused of killing an Iowa State University student has been rescheduled. Twenty-two-year-old Collin Richards is charged with first-degree murder for the September 17 death of 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena, a former star on the ISU golf team. She’d been golfing by herself that morning in Ames […]Powered by WPeMatico
More drama in Senator Chuck Grassley’s Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon. All 11 Republicans on the committee voted to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination for a vote in the full senate. However, the move came after Arizona Senator Jeff Flake indicated he’d vote for Kavanaugh in the committee, but wants a one-week delay before a […]Powered by WPeMatico
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department says an Elgin woman is now charged with first-degree murder in her young child’s death. The Sheriff’s Department says they were called to a home on Main Street on August 21st for a report that a child, 5-year-old Lydia Rios, was not breathing. She was taken to the West Union […]Powered by WPeMatico
