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U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron) penned an op-ed for today’s Register in which he explains that his opposition to the President’s economic stimulus bill stems from research he did as a student at Denison High School.  He says that his research revealed that the New Deal actually prolonged the Depression rather than helping to end [...]

The incumbent ran as an experienced, moderate congressman, attentive to his district’s needs. The younger, issue-based activist challenger, coming off an unsuccessful statewide race that nevertheless raised his profile, stressed his own legislative record and said the incumbent’s congressional voting record was insufficiently loyal to the party.

Leonard Boswell and Ed Fallon? Nope. Hop in the [...]

Born in a Thailand refugee camp in 1980, Kao Kalia Yang is one of almost 190,000 Hmong people living in the U.S.

The Minnesota author was in Iowa City on Monday to read from her new book, “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir.”

“What was going on was mortgage closings just the same as going on today …”
Seventy-five years ago, corn was fetching less than 10 cents a bushel and pork was at three cents a pound. A migrant class of American workers was being created. These were the desperate times of the 1930s known as the Great [...]

Democrats facing their irresistible-force- meets-immovable-object nomination fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama may be wishing they could somehow nominate both.

They can, actually.

Let’s hop in the Wayback Machine and travel to 1836, when one political party had not two, but three presidential candidates.

In a few days, U.S. Senate Republicans will officially anoint Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona to replace Trent Lott of Mississippi as minority whip, the number two post in the Senate GOP leadership.  A few Iowans will recall that Senator Kyl’s father, John Kyl (same name, different spelling) was an Iowa congressman.  But in a [...]

The Iowa Democratic Party is predicting a biggest-ever crowd of 9,000 Saturday for its annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, the last major command-performance cattle call event for the top six Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa.  The “JJ” dinner is annual, but peaks in pre-caucus years. 

The Des Moines fundraising event is long since sold out, but you can [...]

As Bill Richardson is fond of saying, governors get elected president. At least that’s borne out in my adult lifetime: four governors and an incumbent vice president (two incumbent VPs if you count Al Gore.) Richardson likes to tout this over the Senate-heavy Democratic field. In the last century, only two sitting Senators – John [...]