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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A conservative student picked a fight over diversity, then claimed to be a victim
At the University of Iowa, a dental student used the school’s listserv — intended for professional announcements only — to disseminate his political views. Like other students who had violated the school’s listserv policy, he was summoned for a “professional misconduct [...]
November 28th, 2020 - 7:18 pm § in Politics
GOP wins closest U.S. House race by 6 votes
The closest U.S. House race in the 2020 election, for a district in Iowa, apparently has been decided by 6 votes after a recount, The Des Moines Register reported on Saturday, November 28, 2020, flipping another Democratic-held seat in an election that denied Trump a second term but was disappointin[...]