For over three decades, the Center for Rural Affairs has worked alongside farm and rural organizations, U.S. Senators and U.S. …
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For over three decades, the Center for Rural Affairs has worked alongside farm and rural organizations, U.S. Senators and U.S. …
Regionalism in economic development. To some, the idea that neighboring cities and counties collaborate to foster business growth, rather than …
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control released new data showing a rise in suicide rates, especially among young …
Iowa is doing many great things, and we are immensely proud. But at the same time, we are being led …
The hot sun we experienced this August not only caused the local electric grid to experience high use, but it …
The truth about immigration has emerged. Hillary Clinton is recruiting and rallying foreign nationals to staff her election campaign. Hillary …
Since joining the Senate in 1981, Senator Chuck Grassley has claimed to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties every year. …
On a recent morning, shortly after dawn, I stand with my wife and 9-year-old daughter (wearing her chore boots and …
The soulless suburban sprawl spills out of Des Moines and other urban centers. Where, rural Iowans bemoan, have the young …
On the morning of Sept. 5, 1975, Lynette ‘Squeaky” Fromme and I were both in Sacramento, California. But for very …
In 2014, the most recent data we have, there were 42,773 suicides in the United States. That is 117 per …
When bird-watchers head out with a pair of binoculars strung around their neck, they often pack along a paperback guide …
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