Sweeney from the Iowa Senate: Week one Republicans have expanded their majority in both the House and the Senate. With a 67-33 majority in the House and a 34-15 majority in the Senate, the party is positioned for continued influence in Iowa’s state government. However, there was a slight ...
The first full moon in 2025 arrived on Jan. 13 at 6:22 p.m., CST. It is called the Wolf Moon, because wolves were wont to prowl and howl (“ululate,”) on cold January nights, searching for prey. If the wolves howled, it was a sign that a long cold winter was ahead. If the wolves didn’t ...
If you grew up in Southern California, you don’t need a weather person to know which way the Santa Ana winds blow. These dry winds originate in the Great Basin and sweep down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. They lower the humidity and raise the temperature, creating ...
Luck, the saying goes, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. That’s good luck. What about bad luck? It’s the opposite. Bad luck is what happens when lack of preparation meets an ongoing threat. We’re watching this play out now as fires tragically turn large swaths of ...
When Donald Trump made his first successful run for president in 2016 he made 663 promises to American voters. By the end of his 2021 term of office he was only able to fulfill approximately 23 percent of his vows. Before we get too excited as to what will happen when Trump 2.0 takes effect on ...
We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing Florida’s west coast. To the surprise of many, those storms unleashed cataclysmic flooding in western North Carolina, up there in the mountains. All these extreme weather ...