Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January ... in 1673 and providing the first European maps of the Upper Mississippi River. Clayton County’s Marquette is named after him.

The 99-county tour appeared to work for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 cycle as he placed first in the Iowa GOP caucuses ... we will no longer have the map dictate where we go, but now ...

Several Iowa medical assosciations gathered today in Black Hawk County for the Cancer In Iowa: 99 Counties Project, a project dedicated to presenting county-spe ...

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Instead, it goes through out-of-the-way dots on the map like ... Grassley,” in Iowa caucus-speak. It refers to longtime Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s annual trek to all 99 of the state ...