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It’s 6 a.m. I’ve had a strong cup of black coffee, two pieces of toast and a cigarette. There’s the pit-pat of feet and a knock-knock on the bathroom door. “Snookums, are you about done?” She always calls me snookums in the pre-dawn darkness. “Just finishing up a chapter of War…
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The two big bulls in the Iowa Caucus Republican presidential rodeo, former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are kicking up enough dust that it’s hard to see the others. Trump blew into Davenport along the Mississippi River on Monday, DeSantis was there last…
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As you read this I should be sitting on the beach interviewing Southern California surfers. I’ve only seen them in the Beach Party movies. I will try to look the part in bib overalls. I had to get out. The Iowa, Iowa State and Drake men crashed and burned, one and done each of…
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Cancel newspapers, cancel democracy
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Experts are perplexed that Iowa ranks second in the nation for cancer rates, behind Kentucky. Ours is the only state that showed an increase last year, according to a report from the Iowa Cancer Registry. New cancer cases are double what they were a half-century ago.
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Rural pressure against pipelines pumping liquefied CO2 by lever of eminent domain threatens to rupture Republicans controlling the statehouse. Several…
Greg Brown, left, with Byron Stuart at the legendary Byron’s Bar in Pomeroy, Iowa, after a show. Iowa’s leading muse, Greg Brown, put on his last big…
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We are led to believe that the gay bashing and book banning are some sort of unique Iowa grassroots thing, a moms’ uprising in defense of decency for…
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Iowa’s second most-famous expatriate loser, Kari Lake, has a scheduled homecoming when she meets Friday with the Scott County Republican Women. One…
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The liberal elite Out East are waking up to the fact that their brand suffers from chronic disaffection among rural voters, and they are starting to…
Republicans are bearing full steam ahead on their platform to shift Iowa hard to the right, and in doing so might give Democrats the opening they sorely…
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The Iowa Senate moved swiftly in its first week to advance a bill granting vouchers to families of private school students worth nearly $8,000 per head…
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What a weird run we’ve been on the past few years with the double-whammy of Covid and Donald Trump. The aftershocks of deep changes to our lives…
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