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On Wednesday the Illinois Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in a hospital tax dispute that could ultimately impact the way hospitals do business and consumers receive care in Iowa and throughout the nation.

Gov. Chet Culver will be traveling to Illinois next week to headline an event for the Illinois Democratic County Chairmen’s Association.

Campaign literature printed and mailed by Victory Enterprises, a Davenport-based consulting firm, for a Peoria, Ill., sales tax referendum, has some locals raising their eyebrows.

What’s in store at this year’s music and arts festival Mission Creek Midwest (MCM) (April 1-7)? Rest assured, the 3rd annual Iowa City fest will feature plenty of music. But what else? For starters, they’ve teamed up with the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival and indie music mp3 website Daytrotter.

When Illinois Sen. Barack Obama asked his audience in Vinton who was still undecided, Stephanie Roepke raised her hand. 

But after his speech, she said she had made up her mind and will caucus for Obama on Jan. 3, 2008.

Before the event, she was leaning toward caucusing for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and had made [...]

Sen. Barack Obama gave a 30-minute speech in Vinton, Iowa, on Thursday before a crowd of about 300. During the speech he said that some had questioned his experience.  Without naming them, he called out his opponents in the presidential race on the subject of experience and Washington beltway “seasoning”:
“You can have the right kind [...]

Xavier Koch hasn’t officially entered his name into consideration for any elected position yet, but he already has his eye on the nation’s highest office.  The ambitious young man is ten years old and wants to be president of the United States.

With his mother, Karen Koch, he traveled a half-hour to see Illinois Sen. Barack [...]

Earlier today, as reported by the Iowa Independent, Barack Obama criticized John Edwards regarding so-called “527″ groups and their soft-money influence on the campaign.

From Obama earlier today:
“John, yesterday, said he didn’t believe in 527s. Those are these independent groups that raise money without disclosure … We found out today that there’s an outside group that’s [...]

After his speech on community service Wednesday Barack Obama took some questions from the predominately collegiate crowd at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

In this video Cornell student and birddogger Abigail Pedersen talks about the issues that concern her and shares her opinion about Barack Obama’s response to her question on HIV/AIDS.

Watch Obama’s response in [...]