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As communities in Iowa and Illinois consider the possible transformation of the Thomson, Ill., prison into a federal “supermax” facility, Florence, Colo. journalist Bob Wood’s insights about his own community’s supermax facility shed light on the proposal’s potential impacts.

Church bells around the town of Clinton, Iowa, were rung in remembrance of the start of the War in Iraq on Wednesday.
More videos are below the fold.

In interviews with Iowa Independent this week, several delegates discussed the tough choices they may have to make at Saturday’s county convention.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, officially neutral in the Democratic presidential race, this morning said superdelegates at his party’s convention should be stripped of their potential kingmaking status.

He plans to be involved in an effort to do that.

“I’m very uncomfortable with this whole idea of superdelegates,” Harkin said on a conference call. “The reason it [...]

Eleanor Clift, the Newsweek contributing editor and McLaughlin Group gadfly, is in Davenport this week. She will no doubt be taking in the grandeur of eastern Iowa’s snowbanks when she’s not taking part in classroom discussions as St. Ambrose University’s Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.

An interview with the political pundit is below the fold.

Almost 50 people gathered at the University of Iowa on Friday to discuss the two things you’re not supposed to talk about in polite company: religion and politics.

Political science professor Cary Covington’s presentation on “God Talk on the Campaign Trail” outlined how he sees the pendulum of religious favor swinging back to Democratic presidential candidates, [...]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has taken some criticism for planting questions at her events recently. One question that definitely wasn’t planted was asked on Monday night in Coralville at an event held in the Antique Car Museum of Iowa.

The questioner, David Dickey, said that although he liked Clinton and would vote for her in [...]

Speaking at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson made a pitch for himself as a presidential candidate.

He challenged the other Democratic candidates on Iraq when he said: “They’ve decided to stop talking about Iraq. Their campaign strategies have shifted to other issues.  Over the last few debates and on the [...]

Clinton precinct captain Lars Lavender of Parnell, Iowa asked former first lady Hillary Clinton about her electability. 

Lavender has family living around the country who have been asking him about her electability and strength in a general election, so he spoke to her recently about the issue.

Lavender talked to Clinton at an event in Amana [...]

New York Senator Hillary Clinton was joined by her mother and daughter last night at an event  in Williamsburg, Iowa which was marred only by the exodus.  A dangerous icy mist produced slippery roads and frosted windshields as candidate, press, and local traffic drove to their next stops. 
Sen. Clinton and family were headed east [...]