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Council Bluffs Democrat Turek still in mix for U.S. Senate, decision coming soon
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We'll all be dead by 2030, credentialed forecast on artificial intelligence predicts
'Earth-born civilization has a glorious future ahead of it — but not with us'
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What we are streaming. Memorial Day. Film update. Western Iowa University? — Nik and Doug's America, Episode 11
Iowa-California filmmaker Nik Heftman of “The Seven Times Produced by Nik Heftman” on Substack joins The Iowa Mercury for a full and robust Memorial Day…
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Why Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats' best candidate for U.S. Senate
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JD Vance's boyhood mistaken gay confession story smacks of head-spinning inflation
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Kentucky governor says JD Vance's Appalachian 'origin story' doesn't add up
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Iowans feel echoes of Harkin energy in early days of Sand's campaign
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The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own
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Lanon Baccam: 'I’m looking at Doug Burns right now, because his family looks like my family.'
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Competitive Senate, Iowa gubernatorial races demand full-state, rural-urban eyes, coverage
(The upfront ask: if you are not a paid subscriber consider graduating to the paid monthly plan through November 2026 so we can fulfill the mission of…
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Iowans feel echoes of Harkin energy in early days of Sand's campaign
Democratic gubernatorial candidate wants to decentralize state government so more jobs can be in rural Iowa
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Go big, Iowa governor candidates. Build a University of Western Iowa
In 2006, Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gregg Connell, then the mayor of Shenandoah and one of the more innovative and effective rural economic…
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50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, an Iowa immigrant's arrival: Nik and Doug's America: Episode 10
The Iowa Mercury and The Seven Times broadcast a special episode of “Nik and Doug’s America” today as we interviewed my sister, Jane Nguyen, who just…
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People Over Profits!
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'Sinners' movie experience with Dana James, Rachelle Chase (Part 2). Nik and Doug's America
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