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The Des Moines Register showered more poll numbers on readers today, and the news is better for Democrats than it was over the weekend.
Though each Iowan seems to have his or her own ideas for how money should be cut from the budget, few blame the Democrats for overspending on their key priorities over the [...]

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 [...]

Former Des Moines Register columnist and editor Richard Doak wrote an op-ed in Sunday’s paper that bemoans the slow decline of traditional print newspapers, arguing that other types of news outlets will never be an adequate substitute:
The world has become saturated with new media, but it is the oldest of the old media, newspapers, that [...]

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.

Cedar Rapids Gazette Editor Steve Buttry published a blog post Sunday lamenting the fact that traditional news outlets often fail to credit one another for stories they pick up, repurpose, or in some cases simply regurgitate from other sources.  Buttry cites a tweet from Des Moines Register reporter Daniel P. Finney complaining that KCCI took [...]

The blog State 29 is not really publishing anymore, so I figured somebody needed to poke fun at the following image, captured just now on the Des Moines Register’s front page:

Which of the three topics do you think the photo applies to — sex, floods, or politics?

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.

Democrat Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican John McCain in Iowa according to the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Obama, an Illinois senator, was the choice of 54 percent of likely voters, while McCain, an Arizona senator, was the choice of 37 percent.
The poll of 814 likely voters, taken Tuesday through Friday by [...]

The Des Moines Register’s editorial board and Sen. John McCain had what could be described as a testy conversation during the Republican presidential candidates’ visit to Des Moines yesterday, and the video is quickly becoming an Internet sensation.
Below is a two-minute collection of exerpts of some of the more contentious moments. For more clips, go [...]