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As Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, addressed a crowd estimated at 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall a week ago, Keeley Sinnard was standing behind the Alaska governor — seeing the event in the same way Palin did.

Ron Olson, 67, born in Carroll and raised in Manilla, is a primary lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson, the firm that American Lawyer magazine just ranked top in the nation.

COMMENTARY: McCain was like the kid who jumps out from behind a bush and yells “boo” to scare you on the way to school — after jumping out from the same bush and yelling “boo” each day for the past two weeks. As Dionne Warwick would say, you just walk on by.

A just-released Sioux City Journal Lee Enterprises poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a commanding 14-point lead over his GOP opponent, John McCain. Here is The Journal:

In a survey of 600 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections, 53 percent said they would support Obama, and 39 percent said they would [...]

From Denver, The Sioux City Journal reports on supporters of Hillary Clinton moving over to the Barack Obama camp:
“I’m getting on board with Barack Obama. I think he’ll be an excellent president,” said Kathleen Krehbiel, of Solon., who came here as a Clinton delegate. She said she no longer wanted to carry out the “pretense” [...]

Things are bound to get a little scary in the Quad Cities next month when Donald Borchers, director and producer of a remake of the 1983 horror movie “Children of the Corn” begins filming.

You Count. Be Counted! a nationwide voter registration drive will begin today, targeting 65,483 unmarried women in Iowa. The drive is being run by the national organization Women’s Voices Women Vote, which expects to register close to 1 million women nationwide between now and election day.

Despite the threat its Super Wal-Mart posed to its downtown shopping district, one Iowa town’s smart planning and resourcefulness has kept its local businesses alive.

Kenneth Macke’s astronomical ascension from teenage shoe salesman in Carroll to Drake University quarterback to the upper echelon of American business as the top Target executive during that chain’s high-jumping years ranks him among the most successful people from Carroll County in its history.

When Macke retired in 1994, Dayton Hudson, the parent company of Target, [...]

Carroll-based Star Destinations president Cathy Greteman, fresh off organizing an ambitious farm-related North American agenda for German visitors, says agriculture tourism has major potential for Iowa.

“I just feel very strongly that we need to get the message out that in Iowa we have some of the neatest things to show people in agriculture,” Greteman said.