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How Zach Wahls' Iowa Senate Campaign is Deceiving Iowans
Zach Wahls ad running on WHO-TV 13 on May 13. Photo taken by Bob Leonard at Cooney’s Tavern, Des Moines
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Editor’s note: Phoebe Wall Howard is an award-winning reporter who worked for The Des Moine...
A Flagman on the Side of the Road
Road construction in Knoxville, Iowa, on Attica Road, one of the two main roads heading south out of town.
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Iowa Senator Tom Harkin Endorses Josh Turek
Senator Tom Harkin (attribution OSD Deputy Secretary of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Note: This was posted Thursday evening. It has been updated to include Turek’s response.
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If Iowa Democrats Gamble on Zach Wahls Instead of Voting for Josh Turek — They Risk Losing It All
Zach Wahls at the Newton Public Library on April 20th
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Robert Leonard is a former radio news reporter. He has bylines in the New York Times, TIME, USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Capitol Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, and many more.
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