Grinnell is a college town of 9,564 mostly-white folks (fewer than 2% African-American) a long way from anywhere. In September 2020, a local black man was found in a ditch, a rope around his neck, and his dead body on fire. A jury has decided his girlfriend’s white ex-boyfriend did it. On Tues[...]
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December 22nd, 2020 - 12:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The GOP’s Iowa hypocrisy
Rita Hart, an Iowa Democrat who lost a race for Congress in November by 6 votes, has filed “an official notice of contest” asking the House of Representatives to reject the results and order “a hand recount of every ballot,” NBC News reported on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, he[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 8:34 am § in Health, Schools & Colleges
After a week of classes: Alabama has 531 cases, Iowa State has 130 cases
“What we have to do is identify where does the virus thrive,” Tuscaloosa’s mayor said. Read story here. “We are monitoring the data,” ISU’s public health coordinator said. Read story here.[...]
August 10th, 2020 - 2:28 pm § in Misc.
Windstorms ravage Iowa, Illinois
A line of severe thunderstorms with 100+ mph winds, known in weather parlance as a “derecho” (from a Spanish word), rumbled across Iowa and northern illinois on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, destroying homes, damaging croplands, and leaving over a million people without power. Iowa’s gove[...]
Racist congressman ousted in Iowa primary
“Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who has a long history of racist and outrageous remarks, lost his long-held House seat in a primary race Tuesday,” NBC News reported Tuesday night, June 2, 2020. Mr. King, 71, a college dropout, graduated from high school in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War[...]
January 17th, 2020 - 11:37 am § in Misc.
Hating Iowa
Bradley Jensen Murg FACEBOOK I’d like to propose that in exchange for the rest of the nation being forced to suffer through a year of Iowa’s self-important, don’t-you-dare-say-anything-against-ethanol, “I need to talk to each candidate, personally, in my kitchen” caucus[...]
August 21st, 2018 - 3:22 pm § in Misc.
Illegal immigrant led police to body of missing Iowa jogger
Police have charged Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with the murder of Mollie Tibbets, who went missing a month ago while jogging in farm country near her small-town Iowa home. Surveillance video was instrumental in identifying Rivera, who led cops to a body in a cornf[...]
November 3rd, 2016 - 10:29 am § in Misc.
The Confederate Terrorists in Iowa
Two Cops Were Assassinated in Iowas: Who did it? The media were quick to blame the killing of two police officers this week on Black Lives Matters. The shooter was a white guy thrown out of a high school football game by police for waving a Confederate flag in front of black people. Suspect in [&hel[...]
October 31st, 2016 - 9:01 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Halloween in Iowa: What Trump Has Taught US
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