I woke up Tuesday on the northern shore of Lake Minnewashta, water, town, sky all calm: I didn’t sleep well in my tent—not the lake’s…
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After two days riding from dawn to supper, nearly a hundred miles each day, I made Monday a half-day ride, not quite 60 miles, from…
I woke early at the Arrowhead campground, struck my tent, packed my gear, drank a quart of powdered milk, and got rolling in the dark.…
My wife and I are going to hear the Waterboys in concert in Minneapolis Wednesday. So naturally I figure I’ll burn up some time off…
The Logan-Magnolia school district in Iowa didn’t let fear of the future and federal funding stop it from getting five electric school buses to do…
The Iowa Legislature met in special session yesterday and passed a bill banning abortion after six weeks of gestation. Governor Kim Reynolds, who convened the…
University of Iowa hydroscientist and engineer Chris Jones says Iowa farmers enjoy a lot of mythmaking that smells more like corporate image-management than reflection of…
South Dakota landowners are suing to stop Summit Carbon Solutions from using a 2016 South Dakota law that allows pipeliners and other builders of purportedly…
University of Iowa environmental engineering researcher Chris Jones blogs about the tension between agriculture and a healthy environment. (“Farmers are stewards of the land” is…