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Booker calls long-time Iowa backer — just to chat or does it mean he thinks caucuses in play for 1st?
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker — a potential candidate for the presidency in 2028 — is keeping in touch with at least one influential Iowa supporter.
Does Booker’s check-in last Wednesday with Nancy Bobo of Des Moines mean Booker sees Iowa as filli...
Known for handstands in class, this teacher finds more traditional way to support Sand, Muhlbauer
Dave Muhlbauer (right) assists his long-time political supporter Bill Menegay of Denison with a barn sign just outside of that city this afternoon. Photos by Douglas Burns
DENISON
Phyllis Lewis was a teacher known by her western Iowa hig...
500 in Manning honor Vietnam veterans in Wall That Heals vigil with Josh Turek keynoting
State Rep. Josh Turek of Council Bluffs pays respects at The Wall That Heals after delivering a speech in Manning Friday night honoring veterans. Photo By Douglas Burns
MANNING, Iowa —
Just before 10 p.m. Friday night hundreds of people...
Native Iowans new book reveals ugly, criminal underbelly of a not-so-long-ago Des Moines through accounts of a notorious saloonkeeper
In an inviting and richly reported new book populated with larger-than-life figures cut from the fabric of everyday life in early 1900s central Iowa it is the City of Des Moines itself that emerges as the most riveting character.
David and...
Pete Buttigieg shelves subtlety and makes persuasive case for Iowa Caucuses going first
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks to the media following the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration in Altoona Sunday afternoon. Photo By Douglas Burns
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Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa journalist and co-founder of The Western Iowa Journalism Foundation. Burns is the former co-owner of the Carroll (Iowa) Times Herald, which was in his family for 93 years.
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