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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rural pressure against pipelines pumping liquefied CO2 by lever of eminent domain threatens to rupture Republicans controlling the statehouse. Several…
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February 2023

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…
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January 2023

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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