Jim Leach, a Davenport native who represented Iowa in congress for 30 years, has died at the age of 82. Leach was first elected to the U.S. House in 1976 and rose to be Republican chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee. Dave Loebsack, the Democrat who defeated Leach in 2006, calls Leach a statesman. […]
UI law professor calls for new privacy protections for genetic data
A University of Iowa legal scholar who’s an expert on genetic privacy says the thousands of Iowans who used the genetic