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20 Observations from a Midwesterner in the High-Altitude Aspen Ideas Festival
BY CJ PETERSEN
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Donald Trump, American carbon monoxide
All dignity shedded, the White House likely will have 'ring girls' at cage fights for the America 250 celebration
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10 takeaways from Trump's 'America 250' speech in Des Moines on Fourth Of July eve
With Sinatra swagger, Trump said he wants farmers empowered to vouch for undocumented immigrants to spare them deportation
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June 2025

Immigrant rights urgent, protesters say, as raft of outrages animate 'No Kings' rally of thousands at Iowa State Capitol
DES MOINES, Iowa —
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Council Bluffs Democrat Turek still in mix for U.S. Senate, decision coming soon
Council Bluffs State Rep.
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We'll all be dead by 2030, credentialed forecast on artificial intelligence predicts
'Earth-born civilization has a glorious future ahead of it — but not with us'
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May 2025

What we are streaming. Memorial Day. Film update. Western Iowa University? — Nik and Doug's America, Episode 11
Iowa-California filmmaker Nik Heftman of “The Seven Times Produced by Nik Heftman” on Substack joins The Iowa Mercury for a full and robust Memorial Day…
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Nik Heftman
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CelebrAsian in Des Moines
A recording from Douglas Burns's live video
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Competitive Senate, Iowa gubernatorial races demand full-state, rural-urban eyes, coverage
(The upfront ask: if you are not a paid subscriber consider graduating to the paid monthly plan through November 2026 so we can fulfill the mission of…
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Iowans feel echoes of Harkin energy in early days of Sand's campaign
Democratic gubernatorial candidate wants to decentralize state government so more jobs can be in rural Iowa
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Go big, Iowa governor candidates. Build a University of Western Iowa
In 2006, Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gregg Connell, then the mayor of Shenandoah and one of the more innovative and effective rural economic…
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