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'I'm just a small-town kid,' presidential candidate Burgum says
DENISON, Iowa Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum, a North Dakotan with rural roots, says energy independence and strategies to develop a…
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Roaring read: ‘Ballad Of The Whiskey Robber’
Why you should spend time with The Chicky Panther
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Diversity + Equity + Inclusion = America at its best (and we need that urgently)
OMAHA, Nebraska By DOUGLAS BURNS Life at its best, the growth of family, development of friendships and pursuit of professional passions, is about…
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10 walks in a lifetime with my progressive mom
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‘Everything goes my way’ – the wonderful political life of Kim Reynolds
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Iowa’s silent majority about to speak for Mike Franken
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Suicidal thoughts, resilience in a small-town Iowa newspaper’s fierce last stand
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Carroll, Iowa Since our nation is more idea than geography, a collection of principles above anything else, this intellectually secessionist notion of…
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Tie value of dollar to corn, beans, ag commodities, presidential candidate Ramaswamy says
Idea generates interest in farm country
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It's a wonderful — and informed — life in Donna Reed's Denison, Iowa — thanks to a bold Latina journalist
DENISON, Iowa It's as if the movie came to life. Only this time, in real life, the small town folks came to save truth itself from going over the bridge…
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'Oppenheimer,' greatest movie ever made, haunts us with biggest of big questions
Would Joe Biden have dropped the atomic bombs had he been in Truman's shoes? I asked Biden in 2019
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Presidential aspirant Binkley wants to chase hate from public life
PANORA and WAUKEE A pastor and businessman from Texas, with roots in Georgia, is pinning his presidential bid on a Christian ethos of bringing divided…
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How Gov. Kim Reynolds could king-make a DeSantis presidency
And a different take from Kari Lake who thinks the Iowa governor owes fealty to Trump
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‘Murderous lie’ that America is racist dividing nation, presidential candidate Elder says
STORM LAKE, Iowa NOTE: This story first appeared in The Storm Lake Times Pilot. Iowans should be outraged at calls for reparations for Blacks for…
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