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It’s been an extremely difficult year for the newspaper industry, and Iowa has not been immune. Layoffs, cut backs, company losses and furloughs have ruled the day at all of Iowa’s largest newspapers.
The trade journal Editor and Publisher has manged to finally bring some good news to Iowa journalists with its annual “10 That Do [...]

With former Arkansas governor and Republican caucus victor Mike Huckabee visiting Iowa Nov. 20 and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal visiting Nov. 22, it’s beginning to seem like the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is already underway.
With that in mind, the Sioux City Journal asked 11 Republican county chairs in the conservative stronghold of [...]

Citing his military experience and “more than a quarter century of accomplished service in the United States House and Senate,” the Sioux City Journal today endorsed Republican John McCain.
The country faces many problems, The Journal wrote, “from a financial meltown, to the war on terror, to health care, to Social Security, to energy, to immigration, [...]

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 [...]

The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Hayworth reports evidence in Sioux City of the youth activity so vital for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s fortunes.
Here is Hayworth:

The Democratic Party often touts the slew of young people flocking to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. There’s proof of that movement in the group of Northwest Iowans going [...]