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  • State 29 wants to keep up with you on Twitter

    To find out more about Twitter, visit the link below:http://twitter.com/i/4e53b5f9d027269022d2f2f2fc4c745bfb363aadThanks,-The Twitter TeamAbout TwitterTwitter is a unique approach to communication and networking based on the simple concept of status. What are you doing? What are your friends doing—right now? With Twitter, you may answer this question over SMS or the Web [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 8:06pm EDT
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  • Join State 29 At Twitter

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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 1:15pm EDT
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  • It's Warmer In Kansas And There's Lots Of Homes For Sale, You Iowans

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    Tom Vilsack got his cabinet position, which was surprising because he was such a Hillary butt-kisser. Dept of Agriculture? What the hell does Vilsack know about agriculture? Oh, he's from Iowa, by way of Pittsburgh, and he's a lawyer, so he's obviously overqualified. That, and owning kneepads bought by the' [...]
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    Posted: December 29, 2008, 7:09pm EST
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  • State 29's Christmas Card

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    An important announcement is coming from the State 29 blog within the next week.This blog started looking at Iowa newspapers again once that sonofabitch Tom Vilsack got his cabinet appointment.It doesn't mean this blog is going back to regular production, but a year-end post will happen.Give it a few days' [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2008, 12:18pm EST
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  • Sally Mason, Miss Coverup 2008

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    Can't you people put 2 + 2 together? I've been following the rape scandal at the University of Iowa (this blog had been since February), although recently during my retirement via Nicholas Johnson's posts. Wow! Hate to say I told ya so! Now read my post back on June 21, 2007 ("Sally "Tiny [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 1:54pm EDT
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    Posted: July 18, 2008, 12:40pm EDT
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  • Goodbye State 29

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    I've decided that it's really time to get rid of the State 29 blog.You know, I don't live in Iowa anymore. It's kind of gotten to the point where I just can't keep up with the politics anymore. I'm not coming back, so why bother?Sure, I've said goodbye before, when' [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2008, 12:41pm EDT
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  • "The information has been verified, has been scrutinized by editors, has been fact-checked and proofed" Part II

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    From today's Des Moines Register ("Warren County taking low-key approach to vote"):Warren County residents will vote July 8 on a proposed sales tax increase that leaders say is needed to pay for a host of public improvement projects. The issue has garnered little attention so far. Gee, I wonder where the "monopoly [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2008, 7:19am EDT
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  • "The information has been verified, has been scrutinized by editors, has been fact-checked and proofed."

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    From today's Prague Daily Monitor:The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is struggling to retrieve things lost in floods that hit the place two weeks ago. Various institutions have come up with an offer of help, including the Czech government.The Des Moines Register wrote on' [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 1:54pm EDT
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  • Jay Leno

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    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:The comedy of funnyman Jay Leno took on an air of poignancy Wednesday night at a special show in Las Vegas to benefit the flood rebuilding effort in Cedar Rapids...It wasn’t until the end of the show that Leno mentioned Iowa, when he thanked the audience [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
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  • Gay Prudes

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    From the Iowa State Daily by Nia Balvanz:June is Gay Pride Month. Millions of people across the globe get together to celebrate their sexual orientations......A crucial part of the merrymaking is a pride parade, a fabulous spectacle featuring leaders of the community, floats, drum corps, demonstrations for equal rights and [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 8:01am EDT
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  • Gonorrhea, Cha Cha Cha!

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    Philadelphia Bulletin, story headlined on June 25th: "Arizona, Iowa To Turn Down Abstinence Education Funding"Cedar Rapids Gazette, story headlined on June 25th: "STDs reach all-time high in Iowa" [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 11:50pm EDT
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  • Queer In The Quad Cities

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    I can't even begin to quote this Quad City Times story ("Local gay pride day proclamations hit snags") in enough places to demonstrate all the dysfunction, name-calling, backpedaling, and excuse-making that's going on.Don't these politicians have more important things to worry about there?' [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 11:34pm EDT
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  • The Ducks

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    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, this is sick:CEDAR RAPIDS - Vandals stoned and beat to death about 50 ducks, including some that were just days old, at the Bever Park Children's Zoo overnight.A zoo employee discovered the dead birds around 7 a.m. this morning. Some were floating in a pond,' [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
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  • Wayne Ford Should Become A Concert Promoter

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    I was wondering how many comments were going to appear on the Des Moines Register story about State Representative Wayne Ford's stupid rant about why there weren't many black people performing at the Iowa State Fair.As of this morning, there were 164 comments.No big deal, though. This is typical race [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 7:44am EDT
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  • Ramona Took A Deal

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    GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.From the Des Moines Register:Former job-training executive Ramona Cunningham has struck a plea agreement with federal prosecutors on charges that she conspired [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 7:58am EDT
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  • Archie Crooks Still Handling Money

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    GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.From the Des Moines Register:Archie Brooks may be facing up to 27 months in prison for misappropriating money in the scandal at [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 7:49am EDT
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  • LEE Crash

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    Lee Enterprises (LEE) closed at $4.60 on Monday, another new low.Just a week ago it was $5.05!Down 10% in a week!!!Look at that long-term chart graphic!McClathchy, who owns my local (Kanasas City Star), says ad revenue is down 15% this year!And then there's this:The industry will not bottom out for' [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 12:01am EDT
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  • James Hansen Is Bonkers

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    Former University of Iowa alum (B.A. in physics and mathematics '63, M.S. in astronomy '65, and Ph.D. in Physics in '67) and climate scare-ologist James Hansen has finally gone totally insane.This is from The Guardian:James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 6:48pm EDT
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  • George Carlin Died

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    George Carlin died yesterday.He was a huge influence on this insightfully vulgar blog:"The Community College Heretic":"Social Engineering Instead Of Education In DSM":And my favorite, the "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV": [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 7:47am EDT
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  • What Are Headed Towards "Divorce, Default, and Defeat?"

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    "Larry King's marriage, Ed McMahon's mortgage, and Barack Obama's campaign..."If you haven't read Nicholas Johnson's outstanding, detailed, and very lengthy blog post "Change We Can No Longer Believe In" published this morning, do it now.Why, it was just two months ago when I was ragging on Johnson for being uncritical' [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2008, 10:44am EDT
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  • Million Dollar Ripoff

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    From the Des Moines Register:A grocery industry group says a program that allows welfare recipients to shop at Iowa farmers markets with food stamps has cost taxpayers nearly $1 million over three years for less than $60,000 worth of fresh food.State officials acknowledge the numbers, but they say the cost [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2008, 11:26pm EDT
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  • Why I Hate Barack Obama

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    From Reuters via Yahoo: "It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you" [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2008, 3:24pm EDT
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  • The 500 Year Flood Plain Myth + Stupid Spending

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    David in the comments on yesterday's post "Rebuilding It As Green Space" said:Just to clarify what a "500 year flood" is, as well as a "100 year flood", the odds are that any given year there is a 1% chance of a flood that affects locations in the "100 year [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2008, 10:36am EDT
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  • Rebuilding It As Green Space

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    A reader to Nicholas Johnson's blog emailed him:It wasn't until this flood that I realized how many of [Iowa City's] critical resources are in flood areas:* The entire office complex for the Johnson County Administration Building* The pure water processing plant* The waste water processing plant* The central University of' [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2008, 2:38pm EDT
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  • Ed Fallon: "I Walk A Lonely Road..."

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    This blog correctly predicted that Ed Fallon was going to lose in his attempt to wrestle the Democratic nomination away from Leonard Boswell. Funny how you don't hear any Democrats waxing on about how being against the war is a political advantage. After all, Fallon is against all wars and' [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2008, 5:50pm EDT
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  • Thursday Roundup

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    Buster at InMuscatine keeps up with the Lee Enterprises Death Watch. That stock is opening this morning at $4.81, yet another new low.I was wondering where Nicholas Johnson went.Side Notes shows a picture of Highway 1 south of Mount Vernon. Or what little is left of it.From the "You Don't'" [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2008, 7:53am EDT
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  • IowaDrugCard.com Is Much More Expensive Than WalMart

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    From the Mason City Glob-Gazette:A new statewide discount drug card program called the Iowa Drug Card is now available to all Iowa residents.The program, which is free to all Iowans, will provide savings of up to 75 percent on prescription drugs with average savings of around 30 percent. There are [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 8:03pm EDT
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  • Nose To The Wet Grindstone

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    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Top state government and business officials are requesting some employer forbearance as flood-plagued Iowans attempt to deal with emergency situations.Gov. Culver, the Iowa Association of Business and Industry, and Iowa Workforce Development Wednesday made a joint appeal for Iowa businesses to provide employees with the flexibility [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 3:55pm EDT
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  • Kathy Hickman At The Des Moines Register Is A Total Moron

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    From Deadspin.com: On Saturday, thanks to the awful flooding of Iowa, the Iowa Cubs played in front of zero fans in a 5-4 win over Nashville. The flooding has killed five, displaced thousands from their homes and caused millions of dollars in damage. Therefore, Black Heart Gold Pants, an Iowa [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 11:12pm EDT
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  • "You'd Think The University Of Iowa Would Have Learned Something From The Pierre Pierce Case"

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    "Hmmmm, how do you get rid of evidence and taint a crime scene?" From the Iowa City Press-Citizen:Unsealed search warrant documents show four Iowa football players -- Cedric Everson, Abeberell Satterfield, Clemmie Jevon Pugh and Michael Daniels Jr. -- were either inside or came by the Hillcrest Residence Hall room where [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2008, 5:28pm EDT
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  • 15 Dogs, A Rabbit, and a Parrot

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    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:"We're here to get our dog," says Lewis Allison, 44, standing beside Candy Struchen, 38, five days after a forced evacuation from their 11th-floor apartment at Geneva Tower in downtown Cedar Rapids left behind Nikita, an 18-week-old Jack Russell terrier. The dog had but a day's supply [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2008, 7:57am EDT
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  • Flood Your Wallets

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    Governor Chet Culver contemplates another meal while Senator Chuck Grassley checks his corn futures and Senator Tom Harkin checks his ConocoPhillips stock. (photo by Mauro Heck) Headlines in the Des Moines Register concerning paying for the recent flooding: Gronstal wants debt to be option Culver considers tapping 'rainy-day' fund Harkin, Grassley plea in Washington [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2008, 7:41am EDT
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  • LEE Death Watch

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    Lee Enterprises (LEE) is down to $5.05 a share today. $35.15 on February 15, 2007 $30.60 on April 18, 2007 $25.12 on May 31, 2007 $20.09 on July 17, 2007 $15.29 on December 26, 2007 $10.41 on April 8, 2008 $7.71 on May 13, 2008 $6.51 on June 5, 2008 Lee Enterprises CEO Mary Junck in February 2007:Lee Enterprises [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2008, 2:42pm EDT
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  • Flood Of Emotion

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    From the Des Moines Register:As floodwaters continued to recede [in Cedar Rapids], hundreds of frustrated residents waited for hours Sunday afternoon to get a brief look at their flood-damaged homes. Tempers flared. "Why did they tell us to come out here at noon?" Sarah Franks shouted at a police officer Sunday afternoon. [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2008, 8:22am EDT
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  • Why Do We Encourage Development In Flood Zones?

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    Downtown Cedar Rapids (photo: Liz Martin/The Gazette) This is from June 2nd (13 days ago), in the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Meanwhile, the Cedar Rapids City Council and Linn County Board of Supervisors have designated 2009 as the Year of the River, and a new state program earmarking $52 million for river and [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2008, 12:53pm EDT
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  • Iowans Are A Great Example Of How People Should Behave In Times Of Crises

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    Via the Cedar Rapids Gazette, this is about what's happening in Cedar Rapids:The Cedar River is dropping more quickly than officials thought it would, and attention is turning to the logistics of recovery. "We're below 29 feet now," City Engineer Dave Elgin said. "The water is dropping at a little over [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2008, 7:22pm EDT
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  • Who's Afraid Of A Little Water?

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    From the Mason City Glob-Gazette:CLEAR LAKE — A sports bar owner is threatening to turn his establishment into a topless bar if the city tickets him for having a wet T-shirt contest this weekend. Alan Slater, co-owner of The Marina, 2309 Fourth Ave. S., plans to hold a wet T-shirt contest [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 1:04pm EDT
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  • More Flood Photo Blogging

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    The Daily Iowan's daily slideshow of flood coverage in the Iowa City area is worth viewing. That's probably the best picture I've seen so far. [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 8:08am EDT
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  • Cedar Rapids

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    May's (not) Island in Cedar Rapids It's just staggering, isn't it? 31 foot high crest, nearly 20 feet over flood stage. Dealing with people who don't want to leave their flood-ravaged homes. Iowa, Jones, and Cedar counties are virtually impassable. Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids had to evacuate. They're at least a mile away from [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 7:43am EDT
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  • Gannett Ditches Pensions Completely For 401K

    From the AP:Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, on Wednesday told employees that it is freezing the company pension plan, effective Aug. 1, and replacing it with an enhanced 401(k) program. The changes will affect virtually all of Gannett's more than 25,000 employees in the United States, said Gannett spokeswoman [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 2:48pm EDT
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  • Democrats: Pulling The Same Dead Rabbit Out Of The Hat

    From the QC Times:The House on Wednesday narrowly defeated a Democratic attempt to give unemployed Americans an extra three months of jobless benefits after the White House threatened to veto the bill. The bill would have extended the average $300-a-week unemployment benefit check by 13 weeks for all Americans. Job seekers [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 7:49am EDT
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  • Bettendorf School Board Not Soft On Their Multiple Drunk Driving Stupidertendent

    From the Quad City Times:Bettendorf School Board members voted Wednesday evening to place Superintendent Marty Lucas, who has been charged with drunken driving, on paid leave and will move forward with terminating his contract, despite pleas from parents and staff. After meeting behind closed doors for almost three and a half [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 7:35am EDT
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  • Flood Coverage In Iowa

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    I must compliment the Cedar Rapids Gazette for their coverage of the flooding in Eastern Iowa. Their web site is excellent, what with them using the Google Maps API to link stories to particular locations, the radar storm tracking, and all the town-specific photographs. Really well done. Several years ago, the boneheads [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2008, 12:43pm EDT
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  • What's Your Plan?

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    Roy Blunt of Missouri put together this chart (click to enlarge) showing the difference between the Democrat and Republican plans to help lower gas prices. Who knows how much of Blunt's chart is fiction on the Republican side? The "cut earmarks to fund gas tax holiday" seems a little bogus. Republicans [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2008, 8:21am EDT
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  • You F*$@ing Donkey!!!

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    GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004. From the ASSociated Press:With gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon, Senate Democrats want the government to grab some of the billions of [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2008, 9:54am EDT
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  • Floodblogging In Iowa

    John Deeth has pictures from the Iowa City/Coralville Lake area. So does Scott Sterner, whose church is going to have services held elsewhere. Andy and Ellen Stumbo have a number of pics from Charles City. The "CyberAllens" have pics from Cedar Rapids, as well as embedded video from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. John Ford [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2008, 7:36am EDT
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  • The Company You Keep, VP Search Edition

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    From the New York Sun:James Johnson, one of three people tapped by Mr. Obama recently to oversee the search for his running mate, took at least five real estate loans totaling more than $7 million from Countrywide Financial Corp. through an informal program for friends of the company's CEO, Angelo [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 6:23pm EDT
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  • Ban Everything

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    First, those Communist Fascists in Iowa City put cameras in the bathrooms at that town's public library. Now they want to ban smoking outdoors:Iowa City smokers will not be allowed to light up outside on the Pedestrian Mall if some city officials have their way. Such a restriction along the popular city [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 7:46am EDT
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  • How High's The Water, Momma?

    I knew it was getting bad in Iowa, but I didn't realize it was getting this bad:Widespread flooding over the weekend threatened homes and businesses in many of the state's major cities and contributed to at least one death. Mason City, with more than 27,000 people, was left without drinking water [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 7:31am EDT
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  • David Yepsen Hates The Racist Electoral College But Loves Superdelegates

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    David Yepsen From the Des Moines Register's David Yepsen, the worst political columnist in Iowa:Much has been said about what an interesting presidential campaign this has been. But it could have a nightmare ending: Barack Obama could win the popular vote, but John McCain could win a majority in the Electoral College [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2008, 12:59pm EDT
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  • Breaking News: Rising Gas Prices Affects People With 152 Mile Daily Commutes

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    From the Mason City Glob-Gazette:Six days a week, Don Sells heads to work from his home in Clarksville to Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, where he works as a parking valet for $7.68 an hour. The daily round trip of 152 miles costs between $15-20 per day due to the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2008, 11:45am EDT
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  • They Told Me If George W Bush Was Re-Elected That Iowa City Would Put Cameras In Their Library's Bathrooms

    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:The surveillance cameras installed last summer in restrooms at the Iowa City Public Library were supposed to help catch criminals, and they have. They've also caught flak from civil liberties advocates, who say the restroom cameras walk a precarious legal line and infringe unnecessarily on privacy... ...At the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2008, 9:18am EDT
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  • Feedback Wanted About The Stories Project In Coralville

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    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:It will take a "patchwork of financing" to pull off a proposed $90 million Stories Project center celebrating literacy and great authors at a spot along Interstate 80 for which Coralville officials have high hopes, organizers said here Friday. How they'll raise that money will be determined [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 12:00pm EDT
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  • Pulp Fiction: The Stories Project Scam In Coralville

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    From the Iowa City Press-Citizen:A proposed language, literature and literacy-themed attraction in Coralville could earn more than $4.5 million a year, officials said today, and draw 500,000 people annually. “The Stories Project,” to be located on the Iowa River Landing Area, made its official debut at the Old Capitol Friday morning. [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 11:03pm EDT
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  • Thighsight Is 20/20

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    From the Des Moines Register:Some of Hillary Clinton's top Iowa advisers took the blame Thursday for what they called her campaign's failure to see the change wave that prompted record turnout in the state's Democratic presidential caucuses. As Clinton prepared to end her candidacy, influential Iowans in her caucus and national [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2008, 7:54am EDT
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  • Survival Of The Unfittest

    Buster at InMuscatine reveals that even though the company stock is down over 80% in the past 16 months, the CEO of Davenport-based media conglomerate Lee Enterprises, Mary Junck, just got herself a 17% raise...... to $3.4 million a year! Related: LEE Presses On Take it away, Gordon Gekko! [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2008, 7:37am EDT
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  • Meredith To Dig Out 60 Real And 60 Fake Jobs

    Plantoir, the million dollar hand shovel sculpture thingee that Meredith owns From the Des Moines Register in story headlined "Meredith To Cut 120 Jobs":Media company Meredith Corp. will eliminate 120 jobs and take a special charge of $16 million in the fourth quarter as advertising revenue and retail books sales fall... ...The [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 5:19pm EDT
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  • Not That There's Anything Wrong With It

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    From the Quad City Times:It’s a category in which Iowa ranks second in the nation. But it doesn’t have anything to do with agricultural production or education. The state has the second-largest preliminary system in the country for the Miss Gay US of A female impersonation pageant. Texas, by the way, [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 8:03am EDT
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  • We Get Comments

    On the post "Another Landslide Victory For Hillary" are these two comments, one another another:Independent said... If the Cardinals were down by forty runs to the Brewers in the 7th inning, and went on to score 10 unanswered runs in the 8th and 10 unanswered runs in the 9th, THEY'D STILL [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 7:35am EDT
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  • Another Landslide Victory For Hillary

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    From the Argus Leader:New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has claimed an upset victory in the South Dakota presidential primary against rival Barack Obama... ...South Dakota appeared to be in Obama’s column a few weeks ago, and Obama enjoyed the support of almost all of the state’s prominent Democrats, including former Sen. [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2008, 8:25am EDT
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  • Reed Vs Harkin

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    GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004. So this kid Christopher Reed somehow won the Republican primary to challenge Democrat Tom Harkin for his Senate seat. Look at Reed's pathetic [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2008, 7:47am EDT
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  • The Des Moines Register Ignores Women Who Aren't Democrats

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    Here is every reference to Dr Mariannette Miller-Meeks, vying for the Republican spot in the 2nd Congressional District in Iowa, in the Des Moines Register between October 18, 2007 and yesterday. October 18, 2007, by Jane Norman:An ophthalmologist from Ottumwa said Wednesday that she probably would run for the GOP nod [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 7:33pm EDT
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  • David Yepsen Is A "Deeply Sexist Reporter"

    David Yepsen From the Krusty Konservative:...I’m looking for a kandidate who has konservative values and who has the best shot at winning in November. If you read this blog you probably already know that my choice [for the Iowa 2nd Congressional District] is Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks. As I mentioned earlier this morning, [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 3:21pm EDT
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  • Des Moines, The Dropout Factory

    From the Des Moines Register:One in three students who started high school in Des Moines from 2001 to 2003 did not graduate from the district four years later, a Des Moines Register review of enrollment data shows. The figure was one in four in the 1990s. The numbers, while different from the [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 7:34am EDT
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  • Mike Gronstal Is Obviously A Hypocrite

    From the Des Moines Register:Feeling uneasy about Iowa's budget? For good reason, based on state Auditor David Vaudt's recent report: Democratic lawmakers hid some spending and sidestepped state spending limitations by shifting $444 million in general-fund expenses to special accounts for the fiscal year that starts July 1. That's a record, [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2008, 4:49pm EDT
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  • Tom Vilsack Throws Hillary Clinton Under The Bus

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    Found via Kay Henderson's Radio Iowa blog. Here's a story from Time Magazine today:Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor and a national co-chairman of Clinton's campaign, said Sunday: "It does appear to be pretty clear that Senator Obama is going to be the nominee. After Tuesday's contests, she needs to [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2008, 12:14pm EDT
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  • Democrats Want English-Only Overturned In Iowa By Any Means Necessary

    From the Des Moines Register by William "Tool" Petroski:State officials are studying whether federal civil rights laws override Iowa's "English-only" law that prohibits publication of official government communications in foreign languages. "State officials"??? Are you kidding me? How about telling the truth, Petroski? You need to insert the word "Democrat" in front of [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2008, 8:21am EDT
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  • Former Hostage Kathryn Koob: Coca-Cola Is The Reason They Hate Us

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    From the Mason City Glob-Gazette:Kathryn “Kate” Koob went to Iran in 1979 with aspirations of providing education to thousands of Iranians. Instead, she spent 444 days as a hostage after a takeover of the American Embassy. The Iowa native reflected Thursday on how her “pragmatic Iowa upbringing” saw her through many days [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 10:28am EDT
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  • Cedar Rapids Approves $775,000 Corporate Welfare Loan

    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:A Minneapolis developer's plan to buy and renovate the Roosevelt, the former downtown hotel that was converted to apartments in the early 1980s, has won needed City Council support. The council Wednesday night directed city staff to work out the details of a $775,000 city loan, which [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 10:00am EDT
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  • Tom "Electric Bus" Harkin

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    I'm surprised that absolutely nobody has picked up the story of Tom Harkin's $10 million+ electric bus program for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which was recently scrapped and sold at auction for a grand total of $30,000. Here's the original story from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. And here's the GovDeals.com web page showing [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 8:55pm EDT
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  • And While You're At It, Reduce The Fines

    From the Des Moines Register:State occupational safety regulators have reduced fines against Agriprocessors Inc. for numerous safety and health violations. The Iowa Division of Labor Services fined the Postville company $182,000 in March for 39 violations of work place safety rules. After company officials agreed to correct violations on Tuesday, the fines [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 8:01pm EDT
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  • 99 Casinos For 99 Counties

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    From the Des Moines Register:An Iowa company is talking to officials in Lyon County in the northwest corner of the state about building a $90 million casino and resort west of Larchwood. The idea is to draw gamblers and others from the nearby Sioux Falls metro area. If county residents and Iowa's [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 10:40am EDT
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  • Fake Republicans

    Peter Teahan Ed Tibbetts at the Quad City Times:Two years ago, few people would have given Dave Loebsack much chance of beating 30-year incumbent Rep. Jim Leach. Yet, in November, it was Loebsack, a little known college professor, who ended up winning. Now, Loebsack, a Mount Vernon Democrat, is the incumbent, and there [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 7:34am EDT
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  • Respect The Cock

    From the Chicago Tribune:Iowa athletic director Gary Barta says the school will hire a life-skills adviser to work primarily with the football team. The new position, which Barta hopes will be filled this summer, comes on the heels of a series of off-the-field issues involving the Hawkeyes. Nine Iowa football players [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 10:55pm EDT
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  • The Roosevelt Corporate Welfare Hotel In Cedar Rapids

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    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Minneapolis developer Sherman Associates plans to buy and renovate the Roosevelt, the former downtown hotel at 200 First Ave. NE that was converted to apartments in the early 1980s... ...The $7.7 million purchase and renovation is contingent on funding that includes a $775,000 loan from the city [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 7:46am EDT
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  • Congratulations, Bettendorf!

    From the Quad City Times ("Bettendorf rethinks its TIF policy"):Bettendorf is revising its policy on tax increment finance districts.... ...Most of Bettendorf?s TIFs have been used to spawn economic growth and eliminate blight, Van Dyke said, which is what he thinks the Iowa Legislature intended. However, as cities have become more [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2008, 7:27am EDT
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  • Leftoid Monopoly Corporate Media Priorities

    From the Des Moines Register by "agenda driver" William Petroski:Iowa National Guard troops and government damage-assessment teams are headed to Parkersburg today to help with relief and recovery missions in the wake of Sunday?s tornado... ...The first Iowa National Guard troops arrived in Parkersburg on Monday, when a four-person liaison team [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2008, 6:07pm EDT
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  • Alex, I'll Have "Iowa Professional Protesters" For $1000

    Via an email, a reader alerted me to this hilarious story in today's Des Moines Register:Mike Palecek's rusted 1990 Honda Accord has 190,000 miles on the odometer, a sagging rear bumper with a "Jail Bush" sticker... ...Palecek, 52, drove the beater from his home in Sheldon, he says, to find America. [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2008, 2:53pm EDT
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  • Fujita Scale vs Enhanced Fujita Scale

    From the Des Moines Register ("Storm hit at least F3 on scale of intensity"):The strength of the mile-wide tornado that tore through northeast Iowa on Sunday was at least an F3 on the Fujita scale, a system that classifies tornadic intensity based on the amount of damage inflicted. There's a reasonable [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2008, 7:28am EDT
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  • Memorial Day

    From the Quad City Times by Bill Wundram:Sixty-three years later, an ex-Marine from East Moline has fulfilled a promise he made to a frightened young fellow corporal who was certain that he was about to die in the World War II bloodbath of Iwo Jima. Huddled on a landing craft, 20-year-old [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2008, 11:28pm EDT
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  • Compare And Contrast

    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Gov. Chet Culver, pledging help for the victims of Sunday's tornado, made three stops ? Aplington, Parkersburg and New Hartford ? on a tour of the disaster site today. Saying the state would ask for Federal aid to assist disaster victims, Culver pledged state help as well [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 10:09pm EDT
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  • The Iowa Legacy Of Plyler v. Doe

    From the Des Moines Register ("Raid mars future for 3 graduating today from Postville" by Ken Fuson):His name is Santiago Cordero. He shouldn't be here. For some people, perhaps most, judging by the comments posted on blogs and newspaper Web sites, no other information is necessary: He is an illegal alien. He [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 11:49am EDT
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  • Obamaniacs

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    I saw the video. I don't understand why bloggers like John Deeth are going all apeshit:Bringing up assassination. In the context of her run against the man who looks like he may be the first black president. In the 21st century, that's what we call a Macaca moment. Nice nomination youse got [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2008, 10:14am EDT
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  • Tom Harkin's Half-Assed Republican Competition

    GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004. Senator Tom Harkin has to be the luckiest politician on the planet. Despite not living in Iowa, being a liar about his military [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 5:03pm EDT
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  • The Family Tree

    From the Quad City Times:On the day Victoria Jones buried her murdered son Dane Howard in 2000, her oldest son was arrested for sexually abusing a teenager. That son, Hano Bailey, always kept to himself, was a loner, she said. That is why it is hard for her to believe that [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 4:44pm EDT
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  • Photo Of The Year

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    (Photo: John Gaps III, The Register) GED recipient and former $368000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham shows up at a competency hearing today at the Federal Courthouse in Des Moines. She looks like Donald Duck crossbred with an old pornstar who had an accident with a Flowbee. Ahhhh, remember the good old days when [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 10:27am EDT
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  • Malaise. I Call It Corn.

    From the Quad City Times:The Memorial Day weekend traditionally starts of the summer travel season. But with gasoline prices climbing to record highs, AAA estimates that travel this three-day weekend will drop by nearly 1 percent compared to last year as many people will spend the holiday at home this year. Wow! [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 8:26am EDT
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  • Race Hustling In Cedar Rapids: Expensive Offices, Conferences In The Bahamas

    From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission members are questioning Director Kenneth White's spending, and on Thursday asked the city Finance Department to compile a detailed list of transactions for which he was responsible. The commissioners asked Casey Drew, the city's finance director, to look at the lease agreement [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 8:17am EDT
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  • Well Well Wells

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    Wells Dairy Corporate Headquarters, paid for by you. From the Des Moines Register: Wells' Dairy Inc. is falling short in the number of jobs it promised to create when it was awarded nearly $3 million in incentives, state economic development officials said. The Iowa Department of Economic Development awarded the ice cream maker [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 1:33pm EDT
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  • Super Freak

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    From Radio Iowa's blog:The band hired to play to "go on" and warm up the crowd [at the Obama rally in Des Moines last night] began its set with "Super Freak." When they sing "she's super freaky" -- is that a reference to any particular candidate? Their second song: "Play [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 8:18am EDT
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  • Obama's Diminishing Returns, Part 2

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    From "reporter" Rod Boshart of the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, buoyed by primary results in Kentucky and Oregon tonight that put him in line to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, tonight returned to the scene of his breakthrough Jan. 3 caucus victory to urge Iowans to help him [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 8:05am EDT
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  • Lee Suppresses On?

    Buster at InMuscatine:There was no mention [in any Lee Newspapers] of the nearly one billion dollar write-down of Lee Enterprises, and today there is no mention of the firing of [independent accounting firm] Deloitte & Touche. We firmly believe Lee Enterprises is spiking bad news stories about Lee Enterprises in [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 7:32am EDT
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  • Obama's Diminishing Returns

    Earlier in the day, from the cheerleaders at the Des Moines Register, via Google News: And then after the speech, the headline was quickly switched to: What's the matter? The weather in Des Moines looked pretty good tonight, clear and low 60s to upper 50s as the evening wore on. How come [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 11:33pm EDT
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  • Wal-Mart Tries Again To Build A Supercenter In Iowa City

    From the Iowa City Press-Citizen:Plans for an Iowa City Wal-Mart supercenter are back. According to spokesman Ryan Horn, the company intends to make way for the 180,000 square-foot supercenter by demolishing its current store at 1001 Highway 1 West, as well as the former Cub Foods store and existing Staples store [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 4:36pm EDT
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  • LEE Presses On

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    Lee Enterprises, publisher of such monopoly corporate Iowa newspapers as the Quad City Times, Waterloo Courier, Mason City Glob-Gazette, and other pointless rags, continues to get hammered. The company took a big loss for the past quarter. Buster at InMuscatine has all the dirt. Around February of 2007, LEE was trading [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 11:10pm EDT
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  • Proof That Robert "KKK" Byrd Is Senile: He Endorsed Obama

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    From the John Deeth blog:Robert Byrd, now 90 years old and the longest serving senator in history, endorsed Barack Obama for president today. It would have meant more a week ago, before Obama was whomped in Byrd's home state. Byrd, beloved to the point of near-worship in West Virginia, might [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 10:42pm EDT
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  • Why Is Tom Harkin So Rich?

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    GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004. Ed Tibbetts in the Quad City Times:The Quad-City congressional delegation boasts some of that body?s wealthiest members ? and one of its [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 7:42am EDT
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  • Roses and Thistles

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    From the Des Moines Register's Carol Hunter:A rose to the people of Postville who stepped in last week to deal with the human fallout from the immigration raid. Feds boasted it was the largest ever, but it was a personal crisis for hundreds of men, women and children, and a [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2008, 1:25pm EDT
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  • Darwin Needs To Evolve

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    Much like Jane Norman of the Des Moines Register ("Jane, You Ignorant Slut"), Darwin Danielson of Radio Iowa also wrote up a similar "news story" about Tom Harkin's criticism of John McCain's military service:Harkin made his comments during his weekly conference call with reporters when he was asked about how [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2008, 12:48pm EDT
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