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Iowa Nice or Iowa Nutty?

From the Spring 2024 edition of The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter. The PP is  funded entirely by reader subscription, available in hard copy for $15/yr.  Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. Click here for archived … Continue reading

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“What Happened To Iowa Nice?” Another View

A few weeks ago I wrote a post concerning “Iowa Nice.”      That is the perception that Iowans are by their nature nice people. That is a perception that is getting an update as the nation is astonished by … Continue reading

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No Iowa Nice Anymore

Abortion horror story (5:40) I call up a map of the US every day to see if sometime overnight the state Iowa drifted off it’d moorings and drifted south and nestled someplace amongst the states of the old south. Are … Continue reading

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The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Last Great Thing About Iowa

RAGBRAI – It’s not about the bikes. This is the fiftieth anniversary of RAGBRAI.  I have been contemplating lately that RAGBRAI is one of the few remaining great things about Iowa.  We used to have small family farms; we used … Continue reading

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Keep Politics Out Of Iowa Courts

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