AND BUYING THAT LAND WOULD NOT CHANGE THE ELECTORAL MAP IN EITHER STATE. AT THE STATE HOUSE, MARCUS An Iowa lawmaker wants to expand the state of Iowa by buying Minnesota's southern row of nine ...

Michael Bousselot said he will propose a bill in the legislature to buy "the bottom nine counties of Minnesota" — that would be Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn, Mower ...

Seemingly taking a page out of President-elect Donald Trump's page of coveting property that belong to other governments, ...

Ankeny, said he will introduce a bill in the Iowa General Assembly to purchase the bottom nine counties of Minnesota and make ...

Iowa's boundaries remain largely the same as when the state entered the union in 1846. But one Republican senator wants to ...

A Republican senator hopes to "make Minnesota Iowa again" after introducing a bill that would allow Iowa to buy nine southern Minnesota counties. Sen. Mike Bousselot, R-Ankeny, Iowa, proposed the ...

An Iowa lawmaker wants to expand the state of Iowa by buying Minnesota's southern row of nine counties. Though the proposal is far from a done deal, it's already stirring up conversation at the ...

Iowa legislative leaders disagree on whether a proposal to allow the state buy nine southern Minnesota counties is an "outside the box" idea worth exploring or "frankly offensive" to Iowans with more ...