A quaint yellow house in Boone, Iowa — a community of just over 12,000 — appears relatively unassuming from the outside. But on Nov. 14, 1896, one of the most influential women of the 1950s was born inside. Mary Geneva Doud would go on to become Mamie Eisenhower, the wife of the 34th U.S. President […]
Alice Cruse
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Touchscreens and touching grass go hand in hand for the City Nature Challenge, a crowdsourced survey of local wildlife
Event: Johnson County’s City Nature Challenge, April 25-28 What do you see when you walk out your door? This isn’t a mindfulness exercise; scientists want to know. Johnson County residents will join folks in more than 600 cities and counties in the worldwide City Nature Challenge this April. It will be the community’s third time […]
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Iowa’s abortion law is dangerously vague, Iowa health providers, advocates and Democrats warn
University of Iowa student Aubrey Stark remembers coming home from elementary school to see her usually lively pregnant mother, Mandy Stark, ill and bedridden. “She was in so much pain,” Stark said. “[Her condition] was not safe for her at all.” Mandy Stark was suffering from a molar pregnancy, defined by the National Cancer Institute […]
