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Elections without candidates, ballots without voters
CLUTIER — Many city and school elections in Iowa go uncontested, with only one name on the ballot. The difficult part comes when there aren’t any names at all. In Clutier, population 213, no one filed to run for mayor or any of the five seats on the city council. It’s not the only community […]
A century later, Jack Trice’s story lives on
Oct. 8 is the centennial of the death of Jack Trice, Iowa State’s first Black athlete. Trice was an Ohio native who came to Iowa State College to learn animal husbandry. He also joined the track and football teams. What came next has received significant attention in recent decades, including a documentary at cyclones.tv, the books “Football’s […]
Iowa’s most famous headline that never was
In Iowa newspaper lore, it’s the headline that had to happen at some point. In 2007, Mason City Globe Gazette columnist Richard Johnson tried to find it and came up empty. He wrote, “like all good mysteries, [it] remains shrouded in the mists of time.” However, through modern research methods, the truth can be told. “Manly Man Marries Fertile […]