The deal faces opposition from Iowa's attorney general, Tom Miller, who put out a statement regarding the IBP-Smithfield proposed combination. We are very concerned about Smithfield and IBP, the nation's No.1 and No. 2 pork processing companies, ... The proposed merger poses serious questions for pork producers and for consumers.
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We're calling on Representative Nussle to take the target off of Iowa's seniors, children, people with disabilities and low-income families.
Iowa's good enough to win the Big Ten title. They've helped themselves this week by beating Indiana (Saturday) and us.
Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer. We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.
Once again, we couldn't put the ball in the basket down the stretch. It was a little bit of Iowa's defense and our just not having the ball fall.
In a speech at Iowa's Drake University, Kerry said Bush has taken America off onto the road of unilateralism and ideological preemption, ... down a road of confusion and retreat.
It's hard to believe the objective is better service when on its face, this plan to shutter nearly a fourth of Iowa's county offices will lead to more driving, greater inconvenience and less service,
People are looking at Iowa, ... Iowa's going to have an extraordinary opportunity to set the direction for this country and to have an important influence on the nominating process.
People are going to be focusing on Jim Nussle's record in Congress and whether his record on budget deficits, tax cuts and Medicare cuts and Medicaid reflect Iowa's attitudes and positions on those issues. That's really what's going to decide this election, not the lieutenant governor.
Iowa's leisure and hospitality industry and manufacturing, both durable and nondurable, ended 2005 on a very strong economic note. On the other hand, Iowa's transportation sector and construction industry are beginning 2006 on a lackluster path.
Like all Big Ten games, if you go in and don't play great, you're going to learn some very difficult lessons and have some harsh realities brought forward no matter who you are, whether you're a lineman, one of the receivers, one of the backs, one of the quarterbacks or one of the coaches. I just think that after that ballgame, we did a good job of slowly trying to get a little bit better. I don't know that it was anything instantaneous. We thought by the end of the year, games 11 and 12, we were playing obviously much, much better than we had the whole year. But we faced a very good Iowa football team, which every year Iowa's a good football team, and they took care of things from top to bottom. It was certainly a learning thing. Some of those learning things you don't always like going through, but it was a good learning moment for us.
Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.
Iowa's doing a great job bringing young people to the state, but we don't have the number and kind of jobs to keep them here,
We are part of Iowa's initiative to celebrate voting,
But you watch him on film and they may have made a mistake. He's got a lot of people offering him. You get him, redshirt him a year and let him get into Iowa's weight program -- which is probably the best in the country -- and let him take off.