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Western Iowa Journal: Small Town Charm And Global Reach

By Douglas Burns 4/12/08

Kim Gehling’s new web design business takes advantage of low, small-town overhead but still has a global reach.

Can YouTube Make Western Iowa Look Cool?

By Douglas Burns 3/31/08

Think you can make western Iowa look cool on the wildly popular and ultra-hip video sharing Web site YouTube?

There’s money and even a new TV in it if you do.

Western Iowa Hispanic Catholics Celebrate Guadalupe

By Douglas Burns 12/12/07

DENISON – Faith and pageantry walked hand in hand through St. Rosa of Lima Parish last weekend as more than 300 Hispanic Roman Catholics celebrated the feast of Guadalupe – a signature event in their culture.

Today, Dec. 12, is the official feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but the Rev. Paul Kelly, pastor of [...]

The Iowa Hispanic Kingmaker Theory

By Douglas Burns 5/16/07

Presidential aspirants and their earnest staffers are awfully good at reading polls for the Iowa caucuses.

But they apparently don’t pay much attention to the most significant of American surveys: The Census.

The 2000 Census figures, and more recent upddates, show dramatic growth in the number of Hispanics in Iowa. A wise candidate would take note of [...]

Western Iowa’s Spanish voice

By Douglas Burns 5/11/07

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.

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