If you were too busy hiding from the thunderstorms last week to check Iowa Independent every day, you may have missed out on some excellent reporting.  Here are some of our highlights from the past seven days:

  • John Deeth liveblogged Sen. Barack Obama's big health care speech in Iowa City, and T.M. Lindsey reflected on it after the fact.
  • Dien Judge examined Rep. Leonard Boswell's plan to investigate the possibility of building a cross-country ethanol pipeline.
  • T.M. Lindsey reviewed the Democratic candidates' Memorial Day activities across Iowa.
  • Lynda Waddington investigated the possibility that millions of Americans in other early primary states will have voted absentee — before the Iowa Caucuses.
  • Douglas Burns comically opined that Iowans are thick-skinned when outsiders make fun of us.
  • Dien Judge continued his series on Local Control and agriculture policy
  • Ben Weyl interviewed National Republican Congressional Committee chair, Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma.
  • Douglas Burns interviewed Sen. John McCain.
  • And John Deeth liveblogged the Democratic Hall of Fame Dinner, the first Iowa cattle call of Democratic presidential candidates.