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ANALYSIS: With tonight’s vice presidential debate hours away, one rural analyst sees it as a “high-wire act” for GOP candidate Sarah Palin, while another views it as an opportunity for the Alaska governor to escape from what he believes is an unfair media-driven caricature of her.

Commentary — ArtCullen shows in the recent edition of The Storm Lake Times why Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Gartner calls him one of the best editorial writers in Iowa.

With a uniquely western Iowa blend of populist and libertarian instincts that pops with pizazz and overflows with soul, Cullen, the progressive editor of the paper his family [...]

In his most recent editorial, Art Cullen of The Storm Lake Times, a leading progressive and one of the more well-respected opinion writers in the state, says Hispanic immigrants have helped make Storm Lake “the American story.”

Cullen makes the case that Iowa — facing an epic worker shortage — desperately needs immigrants and should reject [...]

Editorial writer Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times, a well-regarded progressive in northwest Iowa, led a spirited dialogue with U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin during the Iowa Democrat's most recent conference call with print and radio media.
Cullen, the editor and co-owner of the newspaper and a journalist whom Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Gartner calls one [...]