AMERICA’S MOST WANTED COMES TO IOWA CITY!
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:42 pm
I was in for a bit of a surprise while watching AMW this evening. It turns out that one of the fugitives profiled on AMW was recently captured in Iowa City! Anthony Carter, a guitar-playing, thumb-sucking murderer had apparently spent the last few weeks hanging out, playing his guitar in the "Pedestrian Mall" in downtown Iowa City. Colloquially known as the PED Mall, in the springtime it becomes a hang out for the homeless, pot-heads, minor drug dealers, and other ne’er-do-wells. The probable reason no one there suspected that Carter was a criminal before his AMW profile was because he fit right into his surroundings.
Years ago in a column for the Daily Iowan, I stated that PED stood for "Please shop Endure the Degenerates." How prescient I was!
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HARKIN BRINGS HOME THE BACON
Apparently Senator Harkin was successful last Thursday in killing an Amendment that would have cut funding for the National Animal Disease Center in Ames. As the Ames Tribune reports:
The National Animal Disease Center, the National Veterinary Services Laboratories and the Center for Veterinary Biologics will still receive $50 million from a $31.5 billion anti-terrorism bill passed by the Senate early Friday. The money goes toward a $430 million plan to modernize the three facilities on Dayton Road.
The Senate voted to table an amendment by Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, that would have killed the additional funding. He called it wasteful spending in the name of fighting terrorism….
The money is on top of $113 million the centers have received so far for the modernization project, which includes $14 million to build new labs for staff that were working out of a strip mall on Lincoln Way.
"It's of the utmost importance to homeland security," Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat, said on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon. "It's the most vulnerable part of the country in terms of terrorist threats with multiple affects.
Years ago in a column for the Daily Iowan, I stated that PED stood for "Please shop Endure the Degenerates." How prescient I was!
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HARKIN BRINGS HOME THE BACON
Apparently Senator Harkin was successful last Thursday in killing an Amendment that would have cut funding for the National Animal Disease Center in Ames. As the Ames Tribune reports:
The National Animal Disease Center, the National Veterinary Services Laboratories and the Center for Veterinary Biologics will still receive $50 million from a $31.5 billion anti-terrorism bill passed by the Senate early Friday. The money goes toward a $430 million plan to modernize the three facilities on Dayton Road.
The Senate voted to table an amendment by Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, that would have killed the additional funding. He called it wasteful spending in the name of fighting terrorism….
The money is on top of $113 million the centers have received so far for the modernization project, which includes $14 million to build new labs for staff that were working out of a strip mall on Lincoln Way.
"It's of the utmost importance to homeland security," Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat, said on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon. "It's the most vulnerable part of the country in terms of terrorist threats with multiple affects.