CEDAR FALLS — After his flight was delayed for more than a week, NASA astronaut Raja Chari, a Cedar Falls native, blasted off Wednesday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida headed to the International Space Station.
“It was a great ride, better than we imagined,” said Chari, the mission commander, shortly after the spacecraft reached orbit.
He and his three NASA crewmates pulled up Thursday night at the space station, their new home until spring.
Iowa’s races for governor are beginning to take shape.
Republicans head into the 2022 cycle with a clear incumbency advantage. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who won her first full term in 2018, is expected to seek reelection.
Republicans have controlled the executive branch since 2011.
Here’s a look at how the governor’s race is shaping up. Names are listed in alphabetical order.
CEDAR FALLS — David Swindlehurst describes himself as “fiscally conservative, socially progressive” — but doesn’t find his political home within either major political party.
So when he decided to run for governor in 2022, the Cedar Falls native decided to start his own, calling it the Black Sheep Party and modeling it after former President George W. Bush’s style of “compassionate conservatism,” he said.
“I’ve always been conservative, you know, not crazy-right,” Swindlehurst said as he announced his run for governor Friday in front of the Little Red Schoolhouse in Cedar Falls. “Bush, I feel, is as close as possible to where I’m at politically.”
MINNEAPOLIS — David, Christy and Noah Swindlehurst are practicing new math at their Eden Prairie, Minn., town home — minimal addition, maximum subtraction.
While the tradition for most young American families is to acquire more, the Swindlehursts are determined to get rid of as much stuff as they can spare.
“We just worked our way through four dressers, and now we’re down to two,” Christy said, as David reluctantly parted with some T-shirts that held sentimental value.
Men show off their legs in the Mr. Legs competition at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, August 15, 2015.
