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Apologies for a second email today but I need to correct a typo in the first paragraph. I meant to write that governor candidates Zach Lahn and Rob Sand are debating this evening but I mistakenly wrote Zach Nunn. Since the column is about N...
Millions for attack ads but not one hour for a debate?
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Tonight, the first of four debates between the two candidates for Iowa governor is scheduled to be held in Davenport. Rob Sand and Zach Lahn will debate on Davenport TV station KWQC exactly four weeks...
How Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes confused the nation’s dumbest US Senator
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As if Caitlin Clark hasn’t already dominated the worlds of sports, advertising and social media, yesterday she somehow became the top story in politics, too.
Hours before Clark helped the Indiana Fever to force a tie in thei...
One day - two important press freedom cases
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(This column, originally written late on Wednesday, September 23rd, has been updated to reflect subsequent developments.)
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Trump doesn’t get to pick reporters
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I’m not normally a fan of journalists sticking together in protest. We’re competitive people who work hard to scoop the competition – not link arms with them.
But this is an extraordinary moment and the re...
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Dave Busiek spent 43 years in Iowa radio and TV newsrooms, the last 30 years as news director at KCCI-TV in Des Moines.
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