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How Sarah Palin Could Win The 2012 GOP Nomination

Politics Daily | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Huckabee, Gop, 2012 Elections, New Hampshire, Democrats, Straw Poll, Palin, Romney, 2012, Republican Party, Primaries, White House, Sarah Palin, Pawlenty, 2012 Election Strategy, Palin Election Strategy, Republicans, Politics News

If Palin can maintain, say, 35-percent support in a multi-candidate presidential field, then she is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination. The ...

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GOP Presidential Candidates Already Jockeying For 2012 Election

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Michael Steele, White House, Gop, 2012 Elections, Haley Barbour, Mitt Romney, Obama, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, 2012, Mike Huckabee, ny23, New York 23, New Hampshire, Iowa, Pataki, Tim Pawlenty, Fundraising, Republican Party, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the...

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On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Gmos, Cafos, Michael Pollan, Corn, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...

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How One Small Town Is Bringing Fresh Water To Africa

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact

Read More: Iowa, Quad-City, Christmas for Water, Donation, Muscatine, Quad-City Times, Fundraising, Charity: Water, Impact News

What do a nightclub promoter, a set of adopted twins, and 30 spray-painted driveways have in common? They're all part of one Midwest community's missi...

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Students "Sleep-Out For The Homeless": Is This Effective Advocacy?

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact

Read More: Iowa, Des Moines, Homeless Veterans, Helping the Homeless, Homelessness, Youth Activism, Impact News

There's a new trend among some of America's active youth. It's called "Sleeping Out For The Homeless." Groups of people gather in a local park or on t...

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Apprenticed for Life: Learning From Millie Kalish's Hard Times on an Iowa Farm During the Depression

Naomi Starkman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Sustainability, Farming, No Impact Week, Green News
Naomi Starkman

Much of Mildred Armstrong Kalish's outstanding book is devoted to entire chapters on how her family survived on a rural farm in record cold with no running water, no central heat, no electricity, and no money.

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Erasing the Doughnut Hole for All Seniors -- A Senate Revolt Against Big Pharma Brewing!

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Donut Hole, Chuck Schumer, Congress, New York, Senate Finance Committee, Delaware, Senator, Ny, Tom Carper, Barack Obama, 2009, John Kerry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Senate, Montana, Ma, Chuck Grassley, Baucus Committe, Doughnut Hole, Iowa, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Ben Nelson, Florida, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Massachusets, Fl, De, Ia, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

An amendment offered by Senator Ben Nelson [D-FL] would reportedly lower the health care reform bill's cost by an additional $86 billion without reducing services.

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Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters For Weed-Killer

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Herbicide, Indiana, Epa, Ohio, Utilities, Filtration, Lawsuit, Syngenta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Atrazine, Filter, Kansas, Weed-Killer, Tillery, Water, Missouri, Illinois, Drinking Water, Green News

Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...

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Santorum To Visit Iowa This Fall

Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rick Santorum, Gop, Republicans, Rick Santorum Iowa, 2012, Iowa, Politics News

Add former Sen. Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates. POLITICO has learned Santorum will visit first-in-the...

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Small States with Big Power

Mike Lux | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Nebraska, Iowa Citizen Action Network, Senate Finance Committee, Constitutional Convention, Iowa, Small States, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Community Organizing, South Dakota, Forward Montana, Ruralvotes, Politics News
Mike Lux

Is it fair that the key gang of six negotiating health care in the Senate Finance Committee represent less than 3% of the nation's population?

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White House Bows To Grassley On Ethanol Tariffs

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Iowa, Corn, Ambassador to Brazil, Brazil, President Obama, Obama, Thomas Shannon, Ethonal, Grassley, White House, Chuck Grassley, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Washington runs on political leverage, and at the current moment few people have more of it than Chuck Grassley. President Obama is desperate to have ...

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Jason Linkins

Iowa Is Curious Outlier On All Time Magazine Polls

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Iowa, Charlie Gibson, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Media News, Time Magazine, Brian Williams, Media News

Iowa seems to have a tortured relationship with Time Magazine polls! In the Trusted Newsman poll, Iowa results favored Katie Couric, by a wide margin. But the overall results placed Couric in last place.

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An Interview With Nick Reding, Author of Methland

Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Nick Reding, Iowa, Methamphetamine, Meth, Politics, Agribusiness, Pharmaceutical Industry, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Farming, Local Food, Local Farmers, Frank Rich, New York Times, Methland, Oelwein, Media News
Patrick Sauer

Oelwein is a microcosm of small town everywhere, but Methland shows that the drug abuse is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply ingrained problems facing rural America.

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Indiana Newspaper Publishes Same-Sex Marriage Announcement: Madness Ensues

Bil Browning | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Elkhart Truth, American Family Association, Marriage Announcement, Same-Sex Marriage, Iowa, Indiana, Fundie Alert, Media News
Bil Browning

One group suggested that the paper will soon start printing "anniversary announcements for polygamous marriages" and "incestuous birth announcements."

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Massachusetts Sues Feds Over Defense Of Marriage Act

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Defense of Marriage Act, Doma, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Iowa, California, Proposition 8, President Barack Obama, Politics News

BOSTON — Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as...

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Iowa Votes On Michael Jackson Butter Sculpture

The Des Moines Register | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Michael Jackson, Butter Sculpture, Butter, Michael Jackson Tribute, Michael Jackson Death, Michael Jackson Butter Sculpture, Iowa State Fair, Politics News

The Michael Jackson dairy debate continues: The Iowa State Fair today announced that it will let the public vote on whether the recently deceased King...

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Gay Marriage Bill Takes Effect In Nation's Capital

AP | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington DC, Washington Dc Gay Marriage. Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Marion Barry, David Catania, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, California, New Hampshire, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A law recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries went into effect Tuesday in the nation's capital, and ...

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Ed Thomas, Iowa Football Coach, Fatally Shot In High School

AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 07.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Parkersburg Iowa, Ed Thomas Killed, Ed Thomas Dead, Football Coach Shot, Ed Thomas Shot, Iowa, Ed Thomas, Aplington Parkersburg High School, High School Coach Ed Thomas, Ed Thomas Iowa, Ed Thomas Football, Home News

PARKERSBURG, Iowa — Several hundred mourners gathered Wednesday at a rural Iowa stadium named for a popular high school football coach who autho...

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Iowa Woman Discovers New Cloud Type

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Iowa, Environment, Photography, Art, Clouds, Climate, Living News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Looking out the 11th floor window of her law office, Jane Wiggins did a double take and grabbed her camera. The dark, undulat...

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Iowa 2012: Campaign Season Has Already Returned

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iowa 2012, 2012 Election, Iowa, Iowa Campaigning, Iowa Campaign, Politics News

DES MOINES, Iowa — It's been six months since voters handed Barack Obama the White House, and in the minds of a lot of Iowa activists that means...

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"Will you Civil Union Me?"

David Ambroz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Iowa, California, Domestic Partnerships, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Maine, Marriage, Gay Rights, Civil Unions, Gay Issues, Living News
David Ambroz

I'm a radical liberal awaiting equality but Daniel -- forgive the lack of poetry -- will you domestically partner me?

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Marriage Equality and the New Faces of the Republican Party

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Proposition 8, Rush Limbaugh, Maine, Iowa, Vermont, Same Sex Marriage, Connecticut, Religious Right, Massachusetts, Socialism, Tea Party, Republican Party, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The collapse of the moderate opposition to gay marriage is both partially caused by the right wing of the Republican Party's increasing isolation on the fringes of American politics.

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Iowa Gay Marriage: State Becomes 3rd Where Gays Can Legally Wed

AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 05.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Gay Marriage States, Iowa, Iowa Gay Marriage, Iowa Same Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Des Moines-Iowa, Chicago News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Same-sex couples in Iowa began holding hastily planned weddings Monday as the state became the third to allow gay marriage, a...

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Why Obama Is Right: We Need Legislation and Markets to Unleash Clean Energy

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Solar Energy, Clean Energy, Carbon Emissions, Earth Day, Global Warming, Iowa, Green News
Frances Beinecke

I have seen many Earth Days come and go, but until this year, I never had the chance to hear a sitting president use the annual green spotlight to call for sweeping clean energy legislation.

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Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Pentagon, Iowa, Earth Day 2009, Congress, Chrysler, Sustainable Food, District of Columbia, Contaminated Water, Camp Lejeune, Green News Report, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Toxic Chemicals, U.S. Postal Service, Water, Electric Cars, Fish, Green News, Autism, Climate Legislation, Toxic Waste, Wind-Energy, Chicago Tribune, Grist, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

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