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NJ Govenor Takes State Helicopter to Baseball Game

Christie Takes
State Chopper to
Son's Baseball
Game...

Jun 1, 2011 9:07 AM CDT

Christie Takes State Chopper to Son's Baseball Game...

...so he can take it back and meet with Iowa GOP

(Newser) - Chris Christie, known for his aversion to government waste, used a New Jersey State Police helicopter yesterday afternoon to attend son Andrew's high school baseball game. Christie and first lady Mary Pat Christie were met at the adjacent football field, reports the Star-Ledger, and driven the remaining 100 yards...

Hawaii, Wyoming the Least-Stressed US States

And the
Least-Stressed
US State Is...

May 27, 2011 12:48 PM CDT

And the Least-Stressed US State Is...

Hawaii, Wyoming top list

(Newser) - America is about as stressed as it was last year, a recent poll finds: Some 39.4% of 352,840 respondents called themselves stressed “a lot of the day,” compared to 39.9% last year. The year before was just a little more relaxed, with 38.8% saying...

Tim Pawlenty to Declare 2012 Presidential Bid Monday, Aide Says

Tim Pawlenty
to Declare
2012 Bid

May 20, 2011 10:42 AM CDT

Tim Pawlenty to Declare 2012 Bid

Announcement to come Monday, aide says

(Newser) - Tim Pawlenty will make the obvious official on Monday: He is indeed running for president. An aide tells Politico that Pawlenty will announce his bid alongside his wife at a town hall in Des Moines. Pawlenty was the first candidate to launch an exploratory committee two months ago, making his...

Iowan to Gingrich:
'You're an Embarrassment'

May 17, 2011 8:13 AM CDT

Iowan to Gingrich: 'You're an Embarrassment'

Newt takes heat for undercutting Paul Ryan

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich is taking heat on the right, after calling Paul Ryan’s Medicare revamp “right-wing social engineering,” and saying he supported a “variation” on an individual health care mandate. Asked about Ryan’s voucher plan on Meet the Press , Gingrich replied, “I think that that...

States May Ban Undercover
Animal Abuse Videos

Apr 14, 2011 8:09 AM CDT

States May Ban Undercover Animal Abuse Videos

Iowa, Florida, Minnesota want to make it illegal to produce them

(Newser) - You've seen the videos: Animal rights advocates go undercover as farm workers and emerge with grainy footage of beaten cows , viciously killed turkeys , and abused pigs . And Iowa—the country's largest pork and eggs producer—wants to keep you from seeing them. Its legislature is considering a bill that would...

Tornado Ravages Iowa Town

Apr 10, 2011 3:20 PM CDT

Tornado Ravages Iowa Town

About 20% of Mapleton 'almost flat,' says mayor

(Newser) - A tornado at least a quarter of a mile wide struck Mapleton, Iowa, last night, damaging more than half of the 1200-person town. The mayor estimated about 20% of the town was "almost flat." The huge, centuries-old trees the town was named for had been pulled out of...

Tim Pawlenty Staffer Benjamin Foster Charged With Public Intoxication in Iowa

Oops: Pawlenty
Staffer Charged
With Public Intoxication

Apr 6, 2011 5:15 PM CDT

Oops: Pawlenty Staffer Charged With Public Intoxication

He tried to get into wrong Iowa home

(Newser) - Memo to political staffers of presidential wannabes: Try to remember the correct house where you're staying in Iowa, try not to vomit in strange backyards, and, above all, try to avoid having quotes like this show up about you in newspaper accounts: “His arm was in my back door,...

Michele
Bachmann
Wows 'Em
in Iowa

analysis

Mar 26, 2011 6:16 PM CDT

Michele Bachmann Wows 'Em in Iowa

Her populist message overshadows speeches by Gingrich, Barbour

(Newser) - Potential GOP candidates Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain tested the waters at an Iowa forum today, but all took a back seat to Michele Bachmann, reports Politico . ("Steals the show" is how the headline puts it; other reports don't go quite that far,...

Iowa Plans Terror Drill With Immigrant-Hating Gunmen

Mar 25, 2011 9:06 AM CDT

Iowa Plans Terror Drill With Immigrant-Hating Gunmen

Anti-illegal immigration groups say exercise builds prejudice

(Newser) - Anti-illegal immigration groups are furious over an anti-terrorism exercise planned in Iowa that will pit Pottawattamie County's finest against a pair of teenage white supremacists. The drill, which is scheduled for tomorrow, is built around a fictional scenario in which an 18-year-old, angered by the influx of minorities—both citizens...

Divorce Soars in Rural America

Mar 24, 2011 8:29 AM CDT

Divorce Soars in Rural America

Families look very different amid shift in values

(Newser) - An Iowa county’s divorce rate today is almost seven times what it was in the 1970s, and it’s symptomatic of a wide-ranging trend: For the first time in history, rural Americans are as likely as urbanites to be divorced, the New York Times finds in a look at...

Loophole Gets Couple a House for Just One Payment

Facing foreclosure, they discover a 123-year-old law

(Newser) - Thanks to a loophole in Iowa law, Matt and Jamie Danielson now own their $278,000 home outright—for the cost of just one mortgage payment. The Danielsons fought foreclosure—and won—by citing a 123-year-old law that requires mortgages be signed by both spouses. A home-loan approval Matt Danielson...

Iowa Could Be Palin's Waterloo

Feb 18, 2011 12:05 PM CST

Iowa Could Be Palin's Waterloo

She's 'combative,opportunistic,' says one GOP activist

(Newser) - The buzz on a Sarah Palin GOP run for the White House apparently isn't thrilling Iowans, whose critical caucuses have the power to scuttle infant campaigns. "I want to like her and want to support her desperately. And yet, you just can't quite do it," said a female...

High School
Wrestler Refuses
to Face Female
Opponent

Feb 17, 2011 3:28 PM CST

High School Wrestler Refuses to Face Female Opponent

She wins by default, making history

(Newser) - The Iowa state wrestling meet—a prestigious high school competition for the sport—has its first female victor. Along with controversy: Cassy Herkelman's male opponent withdrew rather than wrestle her, the Des Moines Register reports. "Wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times," explained...

Romney,
Others
Running
From Iowa

Election 2012

Feb 16, 2011 12:31 PM CST

Romney, Others Running From Iowa

As state leans right, it seems less important

(Newser) - The Iowa caucus might have gotten too conservative for its own good: The 2012 presidential contenders are spending less time in the state than usual, and others are avoiding it altogether, the AP reports. Mitt Romney in particular is MIA, which makes sense, given that he spent $10 million and...

Son of 2 Moms Lectures
Iowa Lawmakers

Feb 2, 2011 1:28 PM CST

Son of 2 Moms Lectures Iowa Lawmakers

Zach Wahls argues against amendment to ban same-sex marriage

(Newser) - Zach Wahls began his speech to state lawmakers simply: "I'm a sixth-generation Iowan and an engineering student at the University of Iowa, and I was raised by two women." He moves on to a passionate defense of his family—it "isn't so different than any other Iowa...

Trouble for
Romney?
'08 Backers
Keep Quiet

Jan 28, 2011 1:05 PM CST

Trouble for Romney? '08 Backers Keep Quiet

Former governor has little support in Iowa, South Carolina

(Newser) - Mitt Romney may be “the nearest thing the GOP has to a frontrunner,” but the path ahead of him is looking thorny: many of the key supporters of his 2008 campaign haven’t committed to supporting him in 2012, writes Jonathan Martin in Politico . In fact, some former...

Palin Testing Waters in Iowa

Jan 20, 2011 10:28 AM CST

Palin Testing Waters in Iowa

But she lags behind competitors in the state

(Newser) - Sarah Palin operatives have begun putting out presidential feelers in Iowa, asking potential allies and activists whether they’d support a campaign, sources tell RealClearPolitics . Iowa’s politicos had until now assumed Palin wasn’t running, because most hadn’t heard from her, even as other would-be 2012 nominees jockeyed...

Jon Stewart:
Obama a Big
Backyard Bore

Oct 1, 2010 6:25 AM CDT

Jon Stewart: Obama a Big Backyard Bore

President was 'upstaged' by decorative chili peppers

(Newser) - The leader of the free world held a 'backyard summit' in a leafy Des Moines suburb on Wednesday. How'd that go? Um, not so well, apparently. The New York Times says the president received a "polite" welcome but faced "pointed" and "barbed" questions from the audience of...

Palin on 2012 Run:
'I'd Give It a Shot'

Sep 17, 2010 10:59 PM CDT

Palin on 2012 Run: 'I'd Give It a Shot'

If it's what the people want, she says

(Newser) - Add this to the will-she or won't-she debate: Sarah Palin tells Fox News that she'd be willing to "give it a shot" if the public wanted her to run for president in 2012. "If the American people were to be ready for someone who is willing to shake...

Palin in Iowa,
Sparking 2012
Speculation

Sep 17, 2010 4:49 PM CDT

Palin in Iowa, Sparking 2012 Speculation

Former governor could be gearing up for presidential bid

(Newser) - Sarah Palin will deliver the keynote address at the Iowa Republican Party's Ronald Reagan Dinner tonight, an engagement widely seen as a possible step toward a 2012 presidential bid, the Washington Post reports. The dinner is an early hurdle for prospective GOP candidates, and Palin's influence is at a high...