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What Tom Harkin would do if he were running for office in 2024

What would Vivek Ramaswamy have said to George Bailey to keep him from the suicide jump?

5 Substacks you should be reading (3 with Iowa ties)

Give, give to support Black and Latino-owned Iowa newspapers, media

Denison, Iowa couple casts off convention for full-time sailboat living in North America

A pioneering Iowa Democrat: Don't tell Josh Turek what can't be done

Iowa Mercury Podcast: Presidential candidate David Stuckenberg

Combat pilot, 42, entering GOP presidential race, promises American 'turnaround,' homeland defense at borders

What's Senator John Fetterman thinking?

Gen X's Matthew Perry, the soul of America's first 'chosen family,' 'urban tribe,' passes

In return to Iowa City, author Irving says he's still writing — and admits to fighting for teacher Vonnegut in local bar

Burgum's answers on rural, small-town economic battle with 'Generica' suburbs are among best I've heard from any presidential candidate in three decades

Listen closely to what you don't hear in Carroll, Iowa

Thriving Viva Fit headlines, feeds Council Bluffs Latino Festival

'I'm just a small-town kid,' presidential candidate Burgum says

Roaring read: ‘Ballad Of The Whiskey Robber’

Diversity + Equity + Inclusion = America at its best (and we need that urgently)

At home and real everywhere in America

Tie value of dollar to corn, beans, ag commodities, presidential candidate Ramaswamy says

It's a wonderful — and informed — life in Donna Reed's Denison, Iowa — thanks to a bold Latina journalist

'Oppenheimer,' greatest movie ever made, haunts us with biggest of big questions

Presidential aspirant Binkley wants to chase hate from public life

How Gov. Kim Reynolds could king-make a DeSantis presidency

‘Murderous lie’ that America is racist dividing nation, presidential candidate Elder says

A Democrat to watch — Allentown, Pennsylvania's first Latino mayor, Matt Tuerk

'A Fever In The Heartland' – relentlessly riveting, essential read on the courageous woman who brought down the KKK in Midwest

Second former journalist at diminished legacy local paper joins Spanish publication in Denison, Iowa, helps take La Prensa bilingual

The Confederacy Of The Humbled

A good-news story about newspapers

10 walks in a lifetime with my progressive mom

Council Bluffs' Turek in conversation as state's 'next Tom Harkin'

Biden, Trump runs open intriguing wagering opportunities on political markets

Rep. Ro Khanna Headlines Launch Of Google/DMACC Partnership

Workplace law changes would make for lost, dangerous Iowa childhoods, Council Bluffs labor leaders, parents, say

A dangerous consequence of public-notice bill: Iowans won't know what they don't know

Obama Presidential Center should establish Iowa satellite branch, celebrating caucuses, spotlighting rural life

Fearless Storm Lake, Iowa high schoolers launch mental-health podcast with emphasis on Latinos

‘Everything goes my way’ – the wonderful political life of Kim Reynolds

Nation needs ‘bad-ass’ Republican woman in White House, Haley says

Is Kari Lake a 2024 presidential candidate?

Questions for the ChatGPT bot: Where will next mass shooting be? When will I die? Who was the Villisca axe murderer? Why is Iowa Iowa so Republican? And other matters of intrigue.

Could Iowa's next poet laureate be a robot?

How to live to be 99 or almost die (a lot) trying