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The Waterloo City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting a “medical or mental health professional” from attempting to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity on Monday night. The ordinance passed all three readings 6-1, with only At-Large Council Member Dave Boesen opposed, and goes into effect immediately. Mayor Quentin Hart also expressed his support…

He didn’t live here long, but Herbert Hoover did say he carried the brand of Iowa—literally in his case—from being barefoot in his father’s blacksmith shop. “The most formative years of my boyhood were spent here. My roots are in this soil,” said Hoover, who was the 31st President of the United States, when he…

Henry Riding—spelled Ridings in some instances—was born into enslavement in Missouri and died as the wealthiest Black man in Sioux City. Born in Lexington, Missouri, in 1839, Riding literally fought for his freedom as a Union soldier during the Civil War. He served in the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment, the first Black unit to…