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Classroom Clinic wants to take virtual mental health service business model statewide, beyond
By Mike Mendenhall
Feb 2
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January 2026
Tragedy in Minneapolis, Congress ‘abdicating its responsibility’ on tariffs, and more with Iowa congressional candidate Dave Dawson
By Mike Mendenhall
Jan 30
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Council Bluffs’ Turek makes Ottumwa connection
OTTUMWA —
Jan 27
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Douglas Burns
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Fox's fat-shame fail
The crass and calculated cruelty a prominent Fox News host trained on an obscure rural Iowa Statehouse candidate has boosted the Democrat’s fundraising…
Jan 24
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A teacher's perspective on Twin Cities ICE age
'Nearly a third of my students did not come to school today, fearing unlawful abductions'
Jan 13
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Nik and Doug’s America: Film Talk
A recording from Douglas Burns's live video
Jan 4
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Douglas Burns
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Nik Heftman
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Having a kid at 15 and more straight talk from ‘The AOC of Iowa,’ congressional candidate Stephanie Steiner
Early into the first speech I heard her give Stephanie Steiner said she had a child at age 15.
Jan 3
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Douglas Burns
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December 2025
Lessons I’m taking with me from 2025
By MARIA TORRES
Dec 30, 2025
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Retiring at 42, officer says Coast Guard doubling in size, recruiting more Midwesterners
Iowa native projects growth in what's now smallest branch of military
Dec 30, 2025
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Douglas Burns
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Lake View, Iowa police chief’s Facebook posts use jokes, real-world humor, to draw 1,000s of views
How law enforcement in a small Iowa town uses social media, emerging artificial intelligence to connect with residents, build a growing following online
Dec 24, 2025
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Fox News' Gutfeld, his national panelists, mock small-town Iowa House candidate's weight, calling him 'Benjamin Broken Buttons' amid a…
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and his orbiting panelists relentlessly mocked the weight of a Dunlap, Iowa Democrat, a rural middle- and high school band…
Dec 20, 2025
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Douglas Burns
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Donald Trump’s desecrating insult of Rob Reiner is no match to message of grace in one of actor’s greatest moments, a healing 1976 Christmas…
Donald Trump’s ugliness hit grave-desecrating lows with the inhuman lies the president leveled at the late actor-director Rob Reiner in the hours after…
Dec 15, 2025
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