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Carter Lake, Council Bluffs can leverage geographic advantage for jobs, affordability, Statehouse candidate says.
Eric Armstrong, a candidate for the Iowa Statehouse, pictured in downtown Council Bluffs with his wife, Hillary Parker. Photo By Douglas Burns
CARTER LAKE, Iowa —
Shoe salesmen no doubt are thrilled to see Eric Armstrong coming.
The near...
High forest tastes of Guatemala define popular Iowa coffee
Edi Corado thinks of coffee beans the same way winemakers do of grapes.
The origin story is everything — the climate, altitude and sourcing.
It’s what this western Iowa entrepreneur says separates his company — Bosque Alto Coffees — from...
Harkin endorses Turek in U.S. Senate race
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, (left), speaks with State Rep. Josh Turek following a fall 2024 event in Council Bluffs, the southwest Iowa city Turek represents in the Iowa House. Photo By Douglas Burns
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin to...
Why Zach Wahls' attack on VoteVets makes no sense
By PHOEBE WALL HOWARD
Special To The Iowa Mercury
Disclaimer: I don’t live or vote in Iowa. But I used to live and vote in Iowa, and I loved the years spent in a state filled with people who took pleasure grilling politicians on pu...
Turek’s dad claps back at son’s critics
Iowa U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek speaks with his father, John Turek, about the elder Turek’s service in the Vietnam War.
John Turek can still hear the screaming.
Aboard a river craft known as an LST, a Landing Ship Tank that delivere...
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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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