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Olympic Stadium Lighting is Made in Iowa
The US Olympic uniforms may have been made in China, but the stadium lighting was made in America. A company called Musco, in Muscatine,...
Iowa Honors Birthday of Farming Hero Who Saved a Billion Lives: Norman Borlaug
Today marks the 98th anniversary of the birth of Iowa’s greatest hero, Norman E. Borlaug, the farm boy who received the Nobel Peace Prize...
China’s Vice President Visits Iowa to Rekindle 27-year-old Friendships
27 years after Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited Muscatine, a small city in rural eastern Iowa and stayed in the homes of farmers...
Wind Energy Advances Across Iowa
Iowa is one of the leading U.S. states for wind power growth. The American Wind Energy Association announced Aug. 4 that Iowa generated 20...
Dramatic River Rescue: Iowa Construction Workers Use Crane to Reach Stranded Woman
A construction crew plucked a woman from an Iowa river using a giant crane to reach the woman in surging waters, after her boat...
Iowa to Restore Frank Lloyd Wright Hotel
The Historic Park Inn Hotel, along with City National Bank in Mason City, Iowa, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, will stand together...
Younger Farmers Making a Comeback in Iowa
It comes as a pleasant surprise -- after years when thousands of farmers were driven off their land -- to find in the 2007...
Blind Iowa Bowler Rolls Perfect Game
A 79-year-old blind Iowa man bowled a perfect 300 game over the weekend, The Storm Lake Times reported. "He could hear the crack of...
Redecorating Bedrooms for Sick Kids Fulfills Passion for Iowan
An Iowa woman working in public relations found a passion for redecorated bedrooms for sick kids. Her first project picked up the broken pieces...
Op-Ed: Daring To Hope, Obama in Iowa
(OP-ED) I heard my first political speech of the '08 presidential race on the car radio today. Four years ago I was so intensely...
Encouraging Iowa Students to Caucus
"Some Iowa colleges are trying to make it easy for their students to head back to campus early to help nominate the next president...
Iowa Company Making Gasoline Obsolete
A former director of engineering at Ford Motor Company says there is no need to wait for clean power. His Hydrogen Engine Center ...
Good News in History, November 3
119 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Good News in History, September 10
Happy 85th birthday to Roy Ayers, sometimes called the "Godfather of Neosoul," who pioneered a variety of off-mainstream jazz and funk genres with his...
Good News in History, September 7
Happy 94th Birthday to Walter Sonny Rollins was born. Widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians, Rollins' seven-decade career...
10 Places Perfect for Remote Workers–And Some Will Pay You Thousands to Move There
2023 saw a record wave of Americans leaving big cities for smaller ones, a trend that grew out of the pandemic when millions of...
Baseball Star Bryce Harper Helps a Random Guy Ask a Girl on a Prom Date
The Phillies' superstar slugger Bryce Harper just turned into the ultimate wingman for a teen looking to ask a girl out to prom.
Knowing his...
Good News in History, May 26
101 years ago today, one of the standout dates on the motorsport calendar, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, held its inaugural event. Le...
A Canadian Farmer Had Millions of Surplus Potatoes and Worked Overtime to Give Them All Away
From Canada's province of Manitoba comes the story of how dozens of volunteers succeeded when presented with a mammoth logistical challenge: giving away 12...
Good News in History, May 6
70 years ago today Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes—significant because...