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Avid bicyclists enter the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, better known as "Ragbrai," to enjoy Iowa hospitality, 10 cents lemonade, and the excellent local bratwurst. Babbitt came to peddle himself to Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses are the first major test of the 1988 presidential campaign...
In Iowa, militant moralism is making its way into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing...
When Gannett shareholders trooped into the Capital Hilton ballroom in Washington last week for the company's annual meeting, they expected a lively session. Only one day before, Gannett had agreed to buy Louisville's Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier-Journal and Times for about $300 million, outbidding both the Washington...
A little hope, though, is rolling into Sac City. After numerous meetings with an industrial search firm in Des Moines, the town leaders have turned up a hot prospect for new business: Fibercraft Inc., a division of Equity Automotive Corp. of Delano, Minn. The company will take over a 37...
"Things are different out here," says Dennis Holcomb of Shive-Hattery Engineers in Des Moines, whose search helped find Fibercraft for Sac City. Says Holcomb: "Iowa is full of small towns that can't come up with tax exemptions or low-interest loans the way bigger cities can in the...