The fall enrollment numbers at the three state universities all show a drop compared to last year. Iowa State University’s Laura Doering says they saw a drop of 1,001 students. She says they saw a decline primarily in international and transfer students. She says a good graduation rate also helped add to the decline. The […]Powered by WPeMatico
The new Grinnell College National Poll finds voters who are Democrats are more likely than Republicans to be engaged in activities related to this year’s election. “A lot of pollsters ask questions that sort of get at how people are feeling,” said J. Ann Selzer, the Des Moines-based pollster who directed the national survey. “Do […]Powered by WPeMatico
A new book chronicles the short life and hundreds of quotes from the University of Iowa’s most famous football player whose 16-foot-tall statue stands in front of the stadium named in his honor. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Nile Kinnick’s birth and author Mark Wilson of Iowa City spent a full decade compiling […]Powered by WPeMatico
The chairman of the Iowa Republican Party is questioning the Democratic candidate for governor’s involvement in a state grant to DuPont Pioneer for the cellulosic ethanol plant that closed in Nevada last year. The grant was approved when Fred Hubbell was chairman of the state’s Iowa Power Fund. Jeff Kaufmann, the chairan of the Iowa GOP, today […]Powered by WPeMatico
A sheriff’s deputy in northwest Iowa has been fired over the fatal shooting of a dog. Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputy Alec Wolf was fired this week after video of the incident surfaced on social media. The shooting happened in early August after a report in Cleghorn that a dog had attacked two other dogs, killing […]Powered by WPeMatico
It wasn’t exactly 40 days and 40 nights of rain, but Iowa has been getting drenched lately and it appears the worst of it may be over, though what’s left of Tropical Storm Gordon is on the way. Meteorologist Jeff Zogg, at the National Weather Service, says a few dark clouds and light showers will […]Powered by WPeMatico
Grinnell College has hired a Des Moines-based polling firm that conducts The Des Moines Register’s “Iowa Poll” to conduct national surveys. The inaugural set of polling data focuses on voter attitudes toward President Trump, immigrants and professional football players who kneel during the National Anthem. Peter Hanson, a political science professor at Grinnell College, said the […]Powered by WPeMatico
A two-day summit on how to improve life in our small, rural towns opens this morning in north-central Iowa’s Hamilton County. The keynote speaker of the “Rural That Works” conference is Ben Winchester, a rural sociologist at the University of Minnesota Extension. Winchester says we need to rewrite the rural narrative. “This isn’t your grandpa’s […]Powered by WPeMatico
Two people, first taken into custody in July, are now facing murder charges for the death of a man in Jasper County. Thirty-six-year-old Jeremy McDowell of Des Moines was found dead in the back seat of a vehicle in Newton on June 22. Police, nearly two weeks later, arrested 50-year-old Jeffery Stendrup at his home […]Powered by WPeMatico
