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...Iowa, we remain far from the global recession's hot spots (knock on wood): Wall Street and Detroit, AIG and WaMu, Chrysler and Bernie Madoff. But the state has its problems, from layoffs by major employers to falling grain prices, bankrupt ethanol plants and state budget woes. And some of those recent scary national headlines - "U.S. Loses 533,000 Jobs in Biggest Drop Since 1974," "Recession Propels Skid in Housing Sales, Prices," "Retail Sales Are Weakest in 35 Years," "In Need of Cash, More Companies Cut 401(k) Match" - are translating into tangible, tell-tale signs on the street where...
...community forum in Des Moines on Jan. 2, several activists warned that the ranks of middle-class Iowans were shrinking while the number of poor was rising. Iowa?s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in November was 4.3%, compared with 3.8% a year earlier, according to the latest report from Iowa Workforce Development. (By comparison, the U.S. jobless rate was 6.7% in November.) Close to 800 families sought help from a Des Moines emergency food pantry in October, up from 600 to 650 families the same month a year earlier. Sales of Iowa's existing homes for the third quarter fell...
...flurry of recent findings has provided a clearer understanding of the Milky Way than ever before. Just a few weeks before Reid's announcement, Martin Pohl, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, revealed the most detailed map to date of the galaxy's spiral arms. Pohl's map establishes that there are two symmetric arms in the inner part of the galaxy that branch off into four - answering a question that astrophysicists have grappled with for 50 years. (According to Pohl, our solar system is located near one of the branching-off points, about...
...Phil Keddy, who handed Caputo his first loss this season at the NWCA All-Star Classic on Nov. 25.The Hawkeye junior took his second in a row against Caputo with a 6-3 decision on Monday.The Havard grappler bounced back in time to overtake eighth-seeded Jerome Ward of Iowa State in the wrestleback bracket, but came up short in the third-place bout, falling to fourth-seeded Doug Umbehauer of Rider.Jantzen also struggled for the first time this year, dropping two bouts in Evanston. The top seed earned back-to-back falls in what looked to be another dominant...
Though I never met James Crumley, in the late 1960s we were both at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop--where being a mystery writer put you pretty far in the back of the bus. Crumley, who died on Sept. 17 at 68, was ahead of me in the program, and I can only wonder if he ran into the same mix of skepticism and condescension toward "popular fiction" that I encountered...