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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 [...]

Iowa Independent alum Douglas Burns forwards an interesting theory in today’s Carroll Daily Times-Herald: Ashton Kutcher, the Iowa-born TV and movie star, should run against U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron).

State Auditor David Vaudt would turn down a portion of Iowa’s $1.9 billion share of the federal stimulus money if he were governor, the West Des Moines Republican told Douglas Burns of Iowa Political Alert Thursday.
Vaudt has joined a group of conservatives around the country who say their states should decline some of the federal [...]

Iowa Indy alum Douglas Burns wrote a story for the cover of this week’s Cityview profiling Iowa politico Jackie Norris, who was recently named chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama:

CARROLL — The Whitesburg, Kentucky-based national Center for Rural Strategies this afternoon interviewed Iowa Independent fellow Douglas Burns about the impact of the war in Iraq on rural America, which is doing a disproportionate share of the fighting and dying.
Officials at the center had read Burns’ recent Iowa Independent piece “What Barack Obama gets about [...]