(The Center Square) – The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uinta and Ouray Reservation in Utah sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) this week asking for the agency’s recent order that temporarily halts leases and permits for energy development on federal land to be “withdrawn or amended.”
(The Center Square) – Canadian company TC Energy is suspending work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline as President Joe Biden followed through on his pledge to revoke its federal permit.
(The Center Square) – Joe Biden took the oath of office Wednesday to become the nation's 46th president, ending four years of Donald Trump's administration and marking the beginning of a push for progressive policies in Washington that could have a widespread impact on taxpayers.
A phone went unanswered and messages unreturned last week at Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' short-staffed congressional office in the Longworth House Office Building.
In 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson, whose first wife, Ellen, had died the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt, a widow, at her Washington home.
From the 1860s until 1920, the suffrage question inspired fierce activism on both sides of the issue. Iowa was no exception. Iowa produced som…
