Iowa Cafe Swamped With Orders For "Obama Cookie"
DES MOINES, Iowa — Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing to the country? Check out cookie sales at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moi...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing to the country? Check out cookie sales at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moi...
Will Bower | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Bobby Jindal has begun the process of pandering to the upcoming, 2012 cycle of the "Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis."
Will Bower | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
This Monday, the new car and truck sales reports for the month of October will be announced, and are expected to be the worst in 25-or-more years. T...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Unless something gargantuanly unexpected happens, if they call Virginia for Obama, you will know at that moment that he is the next President of the United States.
Michael Hughes | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
The expectations McCain brought to the race were impossibly high to fulfill, thanks to decades of media cheerleading and his ability to believe in his own hype.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?
Beverly Davis | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home
Obama's decision is no surprise to those of us who witnessed how well the Biden and Obama camps worked together during the Iowa caucuses. Biden's many supporters there are jumping for joy.
AP | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
AMES, Iowa — A sidewalk project means there may be a little bounce to the beer kegs instead of dings in the pavement when delivery trucks unload...
AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home
NEW YORK — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Nathan Robinson | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
What the four Iowans who tried to arrest Karl Rove did is courageous, and is exactly how we should use the citizen arrest power.
Beverly Davis | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home
It's the season premiere 2008 general election campaign. The music will be blaring, the crowd jumping, the loudspeakers booming. But the real story is that Democratic "unity" is well under way.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
The Army Corps has known for some time that the levee systems needed restructuring. It appears that rather than improving them, they chose to hire PR firms to help with crisis communications.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green
With the epic dimensions of this flood and the scope of infrastructure failures, how can the Army Corps of Engineers say to the devastated people that they had better get busy and "top the levees?"
AP | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
GULFPORT, Ill. — The rising Mississippi River broke through a levee Tuesday, forcing authorities to rescue about a half-dozen people by helicopt...
Dan Treul | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Paul Abrams | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Obama is on the front lines of the flood, helping residents clean up and start over. Where is McCain in this effort? Is he pitching in to help? Or is he off to another party at the Bush "ranch" in his wife's jet?
AP | ALLEN G. BREED and JIM SALTER | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town f...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home
"Personally, I think the sales gas tax holiday being proposed is like peeing your pants on a cold winter's day: It feels nice and warm for a little while, but very soon begins to feel quite cold."
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
In the VIP line at the rally were those who had caucused for Edwards, Kucinich, Richardson, Biden and Dodd. There were Iowans for all the Democratic candidates. Except one. And there were no Republicans.
Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home
Reflecting recent seesawing in the race for the Democratic nomination, which seemed all but won by Obama two weeks ago, Party superdelegates, far from tipping the race, are still divided.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.
AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up nine d...
AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business