Archive - The Iowa Mercury

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

Jul 5 •

Why Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats' best candidate for U.S. Senate

The times and the man are meeting. Iowans will soon see this.

Apr 9 •

JD Vance's boyhood mistaken gay confession story smacks of head-spinning inflation

CARROLL, Iowa —

Aug 24, 2024 •

Kentucky governor says JD Vance's Appalachian 'origin story' doesn't add up

Potential vice presidential candidate Andy Beshear speaks at major Democratic Party event in Iowa

Jul 28, 2024 •

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

May 18 •

The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own

What happens when the place you love stops loving you back?

Mar 1

Lanon Baccam: 'I’m looking at Doug Burns right now, because his family looks like my family.'

How a congressional candidate is seeking a restoration of Iowa at its best

Oct 18, 2024 •

Why The Iowa Mercury is staying rural

The suburbs of Des Moines are encroaching into rural Iowa at a breakneck pace.

Mar 19 •

Kill Hal: 'Numb and dumb is no way to go through life'

Winning trust back in the cold cultural civil war demands a community newspaper campaign that elevates human editors over profit-programmed algorithms

Nov 17, 2024 •

‘Denny O’Grady was one of my heroes,’ small-town newspaper publisher says of beloved late Carroll, Iowa sports editor

CARROLL, Iowa —

Dec 10, 2024 •

Iowa's Bohannan could be strongest, most informed abortion-rights voice in history of Congress

NOTE: The Iowa Mercury is on the verge of hitting 100 paid subscribers and closing in on 1,500 total subscribers.

Nov 3, 2024 •

'I'm afraid if Trump wins. And I'm afraid if Trump loses,' Harkin says

"Pockets of violence" are brewing and could erupt in the United States as presidential election results are reported, regardless of the winner, such is…

Sep 27, 2024 •

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