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Who cut your pork chop?
Ron DeSantis was railing on about illegal immigration while grilling pork chops at the annual picnic May 13 in deep-red Sioux Center hosted by Rep…
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Those Californians are your customers
The U.S. Supreme Court cut sows some slack last week, which caused a lot of squealing around Iowa where we forget that the customer comes first. The…
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The Last Man Standing: A Cross-Country Quest to Understand Climate Change
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The Iowa Way is really a big corporate con using Jesus as a prop
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We used to be No. 1 in schools. Now, at least we’re No. 2 in cancer.
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Policing where we pee
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The devil is working overtime
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What’s that smell in the spring air?
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What’s that smell in the spring air?
You could fertilize a fine field of corn with the analysis spread around on what animates rural White voters. Why did Iowa flip from Obama to Trump? Is…
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Our honorary congressman has not given up on Iowa
Iowa’s fifth congressman, Rep. Ro Khanna of Silicon Valley in California, noted that since the Iowa Caucuses have been abandoned by the Democratic…
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The devil is working overtime
Children are dying from gunfire in school. Waves of refugees uprooted by drought and famine are knocking at the door. And we find ourselves obsessed…
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It’s always been lean on the Great Plains, but this time feels different
A 2,800-mile trip through climate change in three time zones
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Madness of March gives an Iowan wanderlust
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…
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Policing where we pee
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…
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DeSanctimonious v. DeLoser
The two big bulls in the Iowa Caucus Republican presidential rodeo, former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are kicking up enough…
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