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A 22-year-old Iowa blogger is speaking out today and providing his personal reflections as to why he, a volunteer who had worked with rape and sexual assault victims, chose to photograph another woman’s body without her consent.
Kyle Payne, who is awaiting criminal sentencing in connection with the January 2007 incident, says that he wrote today’s [...]

Two leading conservative Iowa blogs are calling for Idaho Sen. Larry Craig to step down in the wake of revelations that he was arrested in a Minneapolis restroom in June and pled guilty to disorderly conduct charges in August.

As the national scandal builds, the Mainstream Iowan writes:
“Senator Larry Craig Should Resign Because Cruising Johns [...]

On Tuesday Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s campaign rolled out a new re-election website fit for the 21st century campaign environment at TomHarkin.com.

Included on the site include numerous links to social networking utilities like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace as well as newer features like Veoh and Eventful.

On a conference call with bloggers yesterday Harkin spoke about [...]

The issues of corruption that hurt the GOP in 2006 may not be gone by 2008. At least six Republican congressmen have recently been under federal scrutiny, the AP reported last week. Though the Republican conference has remained united, it has come under attack by some conservative bloggers looking to eliminate corruption within their party. [...]

Her mother was 45 years old when she was born so the happy mom, pleased that the baby was OK, named her O. Kay. That’s the first fascinating anecdote about O. Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa. The second is that politics has been a part of her life since the day she was [...]

David Yepsen is the chief political writer and a columnist for the Des Moines Register, though he is known nationally as “dean of the Iowa political press corps.” He spoke to the Iowa Independent by phone on Wednesday about how he writes columns, why he likes blogs and which presidential candidates have a chance in [...]