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…

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…

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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