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He may not “officially” be in the race, but former Gov. Terry Branstad is already getting his share of attention from a chief rival for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination, Chris Rants.
Rants has started a new feature on his campaign Web site that pulls old newspaper articles that “pre-date the Google” and publishes them for [...]

David Yepsen, former chief political columnist for the Des Moines Register, told Kaiser Health News that U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is caught between competing interests with regards to health care reform.

The Des Moines Register announced today that Kathie Obradovich will be the paper’s next political columnist.
Obradovich, 44, has been the Register’s political editor since 2003, and she was a state government reporter and statehouse bureau chief before that.
Notably, though Obradovich’s CV certainly qualifies her for the new title, this announcement should also help her employer [...]

We promise not to bore you with too many mundane updates about David Yepsen, but the local newspaper in the recently departed columnist’s new hometown took the opportunity to check in with him after his first week as director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, and, well, we hadn’t heard [...]

Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen used his Sunday column to discuss the future of the Republican Party of Iowa, concluding that the party is going “nowhere fast if it doesn’t find a major-league contender to run against Democratic Gov. Chet Culver in 2010.”
Who should the GOP nominate? Yepsen suggests state Rep. Jodi Tymeson [...]

Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen was officially introduced as the next executive director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at a press conference in Carbondale, Ill., Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Southern Illinoisan, Yepsen will start his new job April 1.  Here’s what he had to say about his goals:
“Paul [...]

Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen is expected to be announced as the new director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, the Register reported this morning.
A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Southern Illinois University.
The Southern Illinoisan newspaper reported that Yepsen’s answering machine said he would [...]

Although no elected officials have been willing to embrace the idea of selling (or leasing) the Iowa Lottery, the newspaper Iowa depends upon has been treating it as the most serious policy proposal of the 2009 legislative session.

Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen has formally interviewed for the director’s position at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale.
Yepsen is the first of three candidates interviewing for the position.

Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen is one of three finalists to run the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale, Ill., Des Moines CBS affiliate KCCI reports.
Yepsen started writing for the Register and Tribune in 1974. In 1977 Yepsen became a statehouse reporter for the Register, and [...]