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Following a Leonard Boswell press conference on energy featuring Senator Tom Harkin Saturday in Des Moines, I introduced myself to one of the reporters at RDG Planning and Design. “If you can find a good lead out of this, you’re a better journalist than I am,” he told me.
I’m at Greg’s now looking over my [...]

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Today, Wired published a set of 10 new photos of the atrocities at Abu Ghraib that came to light in 2004. From their site: “As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard who was court-martialed, psychologist Philip Zimbardo had access to many of the images of abuse that were taken by [...]

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On January 30, the same day that John Edwards dropped out of the presidential horse race, the much reviled consumer advocate and former Oval Office contender Ralph Nader launched an exploratory committee to consider a bid for 2008.
Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Nader announced his intentions to enter the race, much to the chagrin of [...]

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A lot has been going on in Ed Fallon’s primary challenge to 3rd district Democratic Representative Leonard Boswell since I last blogged on the subject. Perhaps most interesting: on February 14, Boswell became the 25th cosignatory to Dennis Kucinich’s House bill calling for the impeachment of Dick Cheney (scroll down for more on that).

On the [...]

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Update (2/17): Becky Greenwald, a Iowa Democratic Party state Central Committee member from Perry, is the fourth candidate to enter the 4th district primary race.

William J. Meyers and wife Raphaela Boehm at Old Chicago. (photo: Gavin Aronsen/The Progressive)
On Saturday, I was enjoying an afternoon nap when I received an unexpected text message on my cell [...]

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A couple weekends back I head to Altoona’s Prairie Meadows — my first casino experience in Iowa — with a friend who’s just turned 21. I’m sitting at a blackjack table when a middle-aged woman who seems oddly familiar with the casino staff sits down. She digs through her purse looking for her club card, [...]

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With a strong zero percent of precincts reporting, MSNBC and a number of other news media outlets called Nevada for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney today.
Granted, it was never any surprise that Romney would likely take Nevada, a Mormon stronghold that was left uncontested while the GOP field focused instead on their South Carolina primary, [...]

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On Wednesday, I skipped class and town to catch a ride to Des Moines, where former State Representative Ed Fallon officially announced his campaign to unseat Congressman Leonard Boswell in this year’s Democratic primary election for the 3rd Congressional District on June 3.

Fallon for Congress campaign headquarters, 2715 Cottage Grove Avenue. (photos: Gavin Aronsen)
Fallon previously [...]

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Finally, the day has come: Gavin’s Journal has found its new residence, and this time it’s here to stay (tentatively, no doubt).
The gods have been looking kindly upon the Ames Progressive lately. We’re working on our fourth zine-formatted issue, which should be out come end of January. Response has been pretty fantastic; it’s safe to [...]

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