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Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous
Feb
28
Iowa’s westernmost Casey’s moves across the street
September 30, 2015: The Akron Casey’s seen in the background of this picture has closed, with a new store opening on this side of IA 3. The north intersection of IA 3 and IA 12 has the new-style sign marking … Continue reading
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Feb
26
Remembering six-on-six
July 7, 2015: Denise Long Park, Whitten, Iowa. For the 50th anniversary of the 1968 state championship game and the 25th anniversary of the end of six-on-six in Iowa, I wrote something for the Gazette looking back and also looking … Continue reading
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Feb
06
The story of Albert the Bull
The world’s largest anatomically correct Hereford was featured in a Super Bowl ad and got a mini-documentary. Story, Sioux City Journal; video (below), Cenex (the ad’s sponsor).
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Jan
26
Answering 538’s gerrymandering question
Political/statistical analysis website 538 says fixing gerrymandering is hard. At one point it resorts to a computer algorithm that completely ignores all jurisdictional boundaries in a quest to make “competitive” districts. What if gerrymandering is a problem better solved by … Continue reading
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Jan
17
Ankeny builds a county seat in a year
It’s a three-paragraph, 30-second story from WHO, but it tells so much. According to the story, based on numbers from the city, Ankeny built 567 new single-family homes and 539 other residences in 2017. That makes for 1106 housing units … Continue reading
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Jan
15
Crossroads Sears doomed
Another original anchor of Crossroads Mall in Waterloo is biting the dust. This time it’s Sears, reported earlier this month (Courier, KWWL, KCRG), following J.C. Penney in 2015. Crossroads has been able to replace the Penney’s with an At Home, … Continue reading
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Jan
11
4-H Schoolhouse Museum moves
September 11, 2014: “Birthplace of the 4-H Club Emblem” marker at the schoolhouse museum in Clarion. More than a century after the 4-H Emblem was born in Wright County, Iowa, the museum celebrating it has been moved — but not too … Continue reading
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Jan
08
20th anniversary of Iowa Highways Page
The Iowa Highways Page is 20 years old today. I stumbled on it about two years after Jason Hancock set it up. Since then, he and I have done lots of coordination and research to make our sites complementary and … Continue reading
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Jan
03
Population projection: Utah has babies and Iowa doesn’t
September 28, 2015: Clayton, Iowa, along the Mississippi River, has no children living in city limits, according to census numbers — adding the atmosphere of a micro-version of “Children of Men” to this photo of a playground there. Buck Grove, near … Continue reading
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Dec
31
Three days, five candidates, five counties, ten years later – 3
December 31, 2007: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and his mother make a campaign stop at the Ames Public Library (Story County). Catherine Biden died three years later. New Year’s Eve 2007 — four days before the caucuses — was just as full … Continue reading
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