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If you are one of those individuals with a flex fuel vehicle, today is a great day! Seventeen of Iowa’s 63 outlets for E85 will offer special prices on the fuel today. The Kum and Go chain will offer E85 at $1.85 per gallon at the following locations from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: 2801 [...]

KWWL is reporting that the Iowa Board of Regents will be naming Purdue University Provost Sally Mason the next University of Iowa president tomorrow during their meeting in Iowa City. If true, Mason will succeed David Skorton, who left the university to become president at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She would also become only [...]

While potluck events at Iowa parks are a summertime staple, pedestrians at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids might find something a little unusual this July. Proud Families Cedar Rapids is a new venture founded by Kate and Trish Varnum and ReGina and Jan Culbertson. Its goal is to become a social and parenting network for [...]

This Thursday people in the northern hemisphere will celebrate summer solstice. On this day the daytime hours are at a maximum, and night time is at a minimum. This happens because the earth is tilted, rotating and revolving around the sun. Overall, the solstice is one of those things which happen so often in our [...]

Earlier today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg played deadpan when responding to a question about running for president. Tonight, he’s released a statement indicating he is no longer affiliated with the Republican Party. “I have filed papers with the New York City Board of Elections to change my status as a voter and register [...]

It’s so exciting that former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle has been tapped to take over as White House Budget Director! Now I can re-run my favorite ad from the Iowa gubernatorial race: No doubt Nussle isn’t walking out of Iowa so much as he is running from the torches and pitch forks of his fellow [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has sent an email to supporters indicating the contest is over and a song for the campaign has been chosen. Those who actually want to know the results are asked to visit the campaign site. While it is all in good fun to keep the song secret a few minutes longer [...]

On July 10 residents of Polk, Dallas and Warren counties will head to the polls and decide the fate of “Yes to Destiny,” a proposed local option sales tax. Next Tuesday residents will have an opportunity to listen to one of the founders of the economic model upon which the plan was built. The speaker [...]

Tomorrow (June 20) Congress will decide the fate of the former School of the Americas. There is an amendment to the Foreign Appropriations bill that would cut funding to the (now named) Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation being put forth by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. The amendment has been steadily gaining co-sponsors and currently [...]

Fox, according to an article in today’s New York Times, upon refusing to air a new Trojan condom ad wrote a letter to the company stating it rejected the spot because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.’ Both the Fox and CBS networks have refused the new ads which [...]