The county’s average land value is $6,286 per acre, according to Iowa State University — less than half the value of land in some of Iowa’s most productive farming counties. “I think it is ...

REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR MIKE BUFFALO FROM ANKENY IS SPEARHEADING THIS EFFORT. THIS IS A MAP OF THE NINE COUNTIES. SENATOR BUFFALO IS FOCUSING ON COUNTIES HE SAYS WERE ORIGINALLY PART OF THE IOWA ...

Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — Iowa’s four most populous counties — Polk, Linn, Scott and Johnson — would no longer receive state economic development funding under a bill ...