The Iowa Legislature declared Christmas as an official state holiday in 1862 — eight years before Congress declared Christmas a federal holiday. Michael Swanger is editor of the Iowa History Journal, which has a cover story in its current issue about how European immigrants brought their Christmas customs to Iowa. “It goes back to even […]
Iowa Environmental Council says state clean water proposal has ‘no substance’
The Iowa Environmental Council says the clean water proposal approved in the last days of the legislative session does nothing new.
