Rick Lem is a cartoonist who lives in Kelley, Iowa. He founded his weekly publication Toons in 1987, which is distributed in and around Ames bearing his “Lemco Productions” business name. Since Toons began, Lem and his publication have become an important and well-recognized part of the Ames community. The Ames Progressive recently sat down [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cover Stories'
Rick Lem: Cartoon Evangelist
March 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: 2010 · AP Issues · Cover Stories · Interviews · Jerrod Jordahl · March 2010
Ames’ Growing Pains: Debating the best path forward for city development
February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Nine years ago, after he first set foot in Ames to survey the city’s retail climate, Bucky Wolford returned home satisfied. A year and a half later, the developer from Chattanooga, Tennessee, formally announced his desire to build a new mall here, setting into motion an impassioned – and often misunderstood – debate that continues [...]
Tags: 2010 · AP Issues · Cover Stories · Gavin Aronsen · January 2010
Leslie Hall: The Queen of Ames Music
November 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Leslie Hall answered the door in almost-complete costume. She invited us in and asked us to wait as she went upstairs to put the finishing touches on her outfit. Gavin and I had come to take a tour of the Mobile Museum of Gem Sweaters, which is parked in a barely used storage lot behind [...]
Tags: 2009 · AP Issues · Cover Stories · Nate Logsdon · November/December 2009
Remembering Norman Borlaug
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
The recent death of Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Prize-winning plant geneticist credited with starting the “Green Revolution,” led to the reiteration of many of the tributes he amassed during his lifetime: that he saved the lives of millions of people, laid Malthus’ ghost to rest, and invented the production model which would enable us to continue “feeding [...]
Tags: 2009 · AP Issues · Cover Stories · Frederick Kirschenmann · October 2009
The Cannabis Crusade
August 27th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Could Iowa become the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana? In 1990, Carl Olsen tells me, he had an epiphany. It’s the year that he met George McMahon at a rally outside the state Capitol building, and McMahon was smoking pot. “I had never met a person that was legally smoking marijuana before,” Olsen recalls. [...]
Tags: 2009 · AP Issues · Cover Stories · Gavin Aronsen · Medical Marijuana · September 2009
Scenes from an Inauguration: The AP in D.C.
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: 2009 · AP Issues · Cover Stories · Gavin Aronsen · January 2009 · Photo Essays
