HeyJaredThe Iowa Mercury
Fourth-generation Iowa journalist dives deep with unpredictable, well-reported writing on rural America's people, politics and culture.
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Why autistic girls can change the world (opens the original)
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A final note from this year’s Iowa State Fair ... (opens the original)
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A Carroll woman, on street during 9/11 in NYC, saw people jumping from towers, Kmart cut off firearms sales in our Iowa town, gas lines formed (opens the original)
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From anti-abortion stance to property rights protector Thomas Laehn says he’s true conservative in Iowa’s U.S. Senate race (opens the original)
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U.S. Senate candidate Thomas Laehn, a fierce opponent of abortion and defender of individual property rights, says he’s the more conservative candidate in the race for this statewide office.“Yes, I am, without a doubt,” Laehn said in an interview with The Iowa Mercury. Laehn, the twice-elected Libertarian Greene County attorney and a constitutional scholar, says the two major-party candidates for the office in Iowa, Democrat legislator Josh Turek of Council Bluffs and GOP Congresswoman Ashley Hi
Ro Khanna headlining Iowa legislator Sean Bagniewski’s annual Des Moines fish fry (opens the original)
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