An Iowa lady decided to photograph and visit all the Iowa county courthouses, and she has put together a pretty nifty site for them. It's a cool way to preserve and present history.......

As you may have heard, Northern Iowa's baseball program is on the chopping block (likely because of your bad mortgage), but the internet is making a ninth-inning rally to try and save it. All they have to do is raise $1.2 million in the next month and the program will survive for ever and ever! Well...

February LWV Forum Good morning from Harvat Hall at Iowa City Hall and a special thanks to Janelle Rettig and crew for saving my favorite chair. (My battery will last, but I prefer plugging in) It's the monthly League o Women Voters legislative forum. Our cosponsor is the faculty senate. Our legisla...

Time for another exciting edition of Washington Republicans Abandoning Ship! In this chapter, we explore the gubernatorial aspirations of Iowa Republican Steve King, who hails from the rock-ribbed Republican Fifth District: Rep. Steve King (R) is looking at a bid for governor in 2010, according to m...

Summer isn't THAT far off . . . already trying to come up with camping/hiking spots in the Midwest for once it gets warm. Help! Looking for specific recommendations for spots in the IL/IA/WI area, plus whatever other random camping and backpacking tips you want to throw my way. Bonus points for plac...

McCain is raising money for his 2010 run. He’s been damn good on the stimulus issue. On Tuesday, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee sent out a fundraising solicitation to subscribers to johnmccain.com asking for donations to his 2010 Senate re-election campaign. Jim Gerlach (R-PA) may ru...

I’d just about given up on getting anything new from these guys. Yet here they are releasing a new album and darn, its good. They’ve mellowed a bit with age — would have loved a few more brawny rock anthems — but singer/songwriter Alex Dezen knows his way around a melody. His...

News Mixer, the final year project of programming-journalism students at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University aimed at breathing new life into commenting systems on news sites, was always intended to be developed and adapted further by third parties. “We got a lot of the hard...

Blogging has been light because I've been...busy. Yeah, that's the ticket. You long-timers know why. Heh.......

Director : David Lynch Release Date : 3 November 1999 (France) Genre : Adventure, Biography, Drama Cast : Sissy Spacek as Rose ‘Rosie’ Straight, Jane Galloway Heitz as Dorothy, Straight’s Next-Door Neighbor (as Jane Galloway Heitz), Joseph A. Carpenter as Bud, Donald Wiegert as Sig...