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The Iowa Commission on the Status of women, believing that not enough people are aware of the extent of Women’s contributions to society, established the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame in 1975. Each year the ICSW and the Governor welcome four women into the Hall of Fame, paying tribute to them and setting them forth [...]

The TruTV Crime Library, via its “Weirdest Wills” feature, highlights the will of Iowa attorney T.M. Zink, who died in 1930 and left $35,000 in a 75-year trust for the construction of a “womanless library.” “Zink … had such a strong disdain for women that he wished to use his savings to establish a library [...]

Shawn Kruse, a 32-year-old Cedar Rapids man believed to be a domestic abuse perpetrator, is currently residing in the Iowa Medical and Classification Center, run by the Iowa Department of Corrections, and he is costing Linn County residents $3,000 each day. Kruse allegedly hit his wife with a weapon, intimated her with a crowbar and [...]

Did you see the poll commissioned by The Iowa Republican concerning same-sex marriage? Todd Dorman, columnist for The Gazette, asked TIR proprietor Craig Robinson about it and then gave spot-on summary: “… instead of cutting to the chase and polling to find out how Iowans feel about the real issue -and, yes, it is about [...]

“New research says a healthy dose of estrogen may be the key not only to our fiscal recovery, but also to economic strength worldwide,” says Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, writing for the Washington Post and authors of “Womenomics.” The sexy new discussion in policy circles around the world, thanks to the recession, is whether [...]

I’ve been humbled and honored several times over the past two years to be invited to speak to groups of women who want to learn more about blogging or, more generally, how to express their viewpoints via the Internet. Generally I’m one of the youngest women in the room, and most questions are steeped with [...]

I’ve debated for more than a week on whether or not to post this. After all, it’s one thing and I wasn’t convinced if it was fair or appropriate to use this one thing as a measure against an entire state. But I had some time yesterday to do a bit of research on the [...]

David Chung, author of Hawkeye GOP, has announced that he is resigning his elected position on the Iowa Republican State Central Committee so that he can freely volunteer for the gubernatorial campaign of Christian Fong. This move was done, he said, both because of promises he made to be neutral in primaries and perceived conflicts [...]

Our summer vacation, which included a reunion of my massive family, took us through several states that are often considered to be more Republican leaning. Based on our previous trips to those areas, however, it seems the political viewpoint (expressed via bumper stickers and yard signs) are swaying to the left. While these observations are [...]