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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson opened up about his personal dislike of the present immigration debate in front of an audience of Iowa Hispanics yesterday.

“I don’t like the immigration debate,” Richardson told a meeting of the Heritage of Latino Americans (HOLA) Wells Fargo affinity group at the Wells Fargo campus in West Des Moines, adding [...]

A new Mason-Dixon poll released Tuesday shows the top-three Democratic contenders are in a close race in Iowa, with a surprising 27 percent of voters declaring themselves “undecided” nearly seven months before the nation’s first presidential caucus.  On the Republican side, Arizona Sen. John McCain seems to be tanking, with just 6 percent of Republican [...]

Many observers of American politics complain that the media, folks like me, turn elections into horse races with stories about who's up and who's down.
We handicap rather than inform, say these detractors.
Well, with a wonkish track record of allowing candidates columns and columns of inches to get into specific proposals — to the point where [...]

One of the more influential venues for discussion and debate in western Iowa’s burgeoning Hispanic community is published in Carroll.

The 1-year-old Spanish-language paper, La Prensa (The Press), is a family operation, the product of an ambitious mother-son team originally from Nicaragua but with deepening roots in Carroll.