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Slow traffic on Iowa’s Internet

If the Internet is the information superhighway, then Iowa’s traffic is stuck behind a slow moving, two-lanes-wide combine.


Issue One: Pundit Eleanor Clift Visits St. Ambrose University

Eleanor Clift, the Newsweek contributing editor and McLaughlin Group gadfly, is in Davenport this week. She will no doubt be taking in the grandeur of eastern Iowa’s snowbanks when she’s not taking part in classroom discussions as St. Ambrose University’s Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.

An interview with the political pundit is below the fold.


Clinton’s Celine Choice Finds Few Fans At The Cool Record Store

The Record Collector in downtown Iowa City is a dead ringer for Championship Vinyl in the movie High Fidelity.

It's the Cool Record Store where you wonder if what you're buying is hip enough to impress the clerk, or if Jack Black will leap out from behind the counter and slap you for daring to utter [...]