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Deloris Nissen, a 78-year-old retired nurses’ aide from Carroll, tells her hometown paper that she is selling her televisions because she has grown weary of seeing President Barack Obama.
Carroll Daily Times Herald reporter and Iowa Indy alum Douglas Burns interviewed Nissen after seeing an ad she placed in his paper telling readers she’s selling two [...]

As Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, addressed a crowd estimated at 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall a week ago, Keeley Sinnard was standing behind the Alaska governor — seeing the event in the same way Palin did.

Ron Olson, 67, born in Carroll and raised in Manilla, is a primary lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson, the firm that American Lawyer magazine just ranked top in the nation.

Community bankers in the rural city of Carroll unanimously agree that their local economy is stronger than the national one, and that capital will be available to support the farm economy in 2009.

“The ag economy is in great shape,” says Scott Steffen, vice president at United Bank of Iowa in Carroll. “The money’s going to be there.”

Despite the threat its Super Wal-Mart posed to its downtown shopping district, one Iowa town’s smart planning and resourcefulness has kept its local businesses alive.

Kenneth Macke’s astronomical ascension from teenage shoe salesman in Carroll to Drake University quarterback to the upper echelon of American business as the top Target executive during that chain’s high-jumping years ranks him among the most successful people from Carroll County in its history.

When Macke retired in 1994, Dayton Hudson, the parent company of Target, [...]

Kim Gehling’s new web design business takes advantage of low, small-town overhead but still has a global reach.

A London, England-based architectural historian is authoring a book on revitalized main streets that is expected to feature the Iowa cities of Carroll, Grinnell and Albia.

City Councilman Mike Eifler says that when many Carroll residents look in the mirror what they see is not the face of a vibrant future workforce.

Speaking during a council-staff retreat session at the Carrollton Centre on Saturday, Eifler said Carroll must work aggressively to diversify the workforce by attracting younger people and minorities.

“Let’s face it,” [...]

City of Carroll hosts 26 presidential candidate visits in 2008 cycle — so far

Presidential campaigns and national media in recent days have said they are viewing Carroll, Iowa, as something of a bellwether city in Thursday’s Iowa caucuses.

C-SPAN is expected to broadcast from the Republican caucuses at Des Moines Area Community College in Carroll, and [...]