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All of that grunting and ligament-snapping you heard last week was the mainstream media straining to liken Iowa's record-breaking floods to New Orleans' devastation by Hurricane Katrina. As Iowa Independent writer Lynda Waddington points out in the Guardian this week, Iowa may seem too white and rural for the comparison to stick, but the connections [...]

We’re pleased to announce that Jason Hancock has joined the Iowa Independent as a Senior Fellow.  Hancock most recently wrote for Cityview, Des Moines’s alternative weekly paper.  He has also written for the Des Moines Business Record and the New Albany Tribune in New Albany, IN.

For the Iowa Independent, Hancock will cover politics and government [...]

As the caucuses draw near, traditional media outlets have noticed the impact Iowa Independent has had on news across the country.  Thursday, Wired Magazine profiled the Iowa blogosphere, which writer Sarah Lai Stirland says “play[s] a pivotal role in the squeaky-close 2008 primary season.”  In the story, she describes the influence Iowa Independent has wielded [...]

Iowa Independent, Iowa’s largest online-only news outlet, releases weekly Power Rankings seeking to answer the question, “If the Iowa Caucuses were held tonight, how would they turn out?”

Last Friday, Fox News’s top-rated Hannity & Colmes show cited Iowa Independent’s Republican Power Rankings as a topic of discussion for their panel.  The YouTube clip is below:

A national crew from FOX News Channel today interviewed Iowa Independent fellow Douglas Burns in Carroll for a story on the Iowa caucuses and the dynamics at work in western Iowa, particularly in the Democrats’ close contest.

FOX also interviewed several voters and leaders in Carroll for a segment tentatively scheduled to air at 5 p.m. [...]

Managing Editor Chase Martyn will be a featured guest on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “All Things Political” Monday, Sept. 10, at 9:30 a.m. Central time.

To listen, head to WPR.org.

Iowa Independent Managing Editor Chase Martyn will appear on Air America’s Rachel Maddow Show with guest host Isaac-Davy Aronson at 6:30 Eastern/5:30 Central tonight.  The topic of conversation will be tomorrow’s Ames Straw Poll.

The show can be heard live on the air nationwide, but Iowa does not yet have an affiliate.  To stream the show [...]

Center for Independent Media President and CEO David Bennahum and Iowa Independent Managing Editor Chase Martyn will chat and answer questions from listeners during the 10 o’clock hour of Iowa Public Radio’s “Talk of Iowa” today.

If you would like to join in, listen on your Iowa Public Radio station or stream the program live here.

John Deeth’s raspberry beret, which won a poll on his blog to earn its title as Deeth’s official blogging hat, earned its 15 minutes today on the front page, above the fold, of the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

In a very gracious acceptance post on his personal blog, Deeth writes,
You wanted the raspberry beret, you got the [...]

The website Daily Yonder profiled Iowa Independent Fellow Douglas Burns.  The piece centers on a question Burns was able to ask of John McCain about the disproportionate costs faced by rural communities in times of war.