Ames Progressive

The New York Times reported that the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin, wants to schedule a vote to decrease media ownership restrictions on December 18th, 2007. The proposed measure would lift restrictions currently prohibiting the ownership of both a newspaper and a television station in the same city by the same company. [...]

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We all do it. Stare at the strangers around us and wonder what thoughts are flickering through their minds.
We endeavored to find out one night.
Location: Thumbs
Time: 10pm -2am
Question: What are you thinking?
“The people I am going to meet the rest of the day. The potential situations I am going to be in and how I [...]

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Lately it seems that there has been a rise in the amount of energy drinks promising to give you super-human strength to study, party, or skateboard all night. More sophisticated consumers, however, aren’t buying into the hyped up marketing and packaging.
Energy drinks do allow me to align every spoke on every wheel in the [...]

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This winter, Iowa State University will hold the first ever marathon in State Gym. Sixteen hundred long distance runners from around the nation are expected to attend the monumental event. Long time marathoner and long distance runner Teren Jameson said, ”I ran the Chicago marathon recently and I’m very excited to have the opportunity [...]

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I.
He is an old brown mound of 700 pounds
Draped in a hospital blanket that falls upon
His slanting cliffs, his worn peaks, his damp hillsides
And folds down into the drainage ditch
Between two rolling foothills: his legs
This ditch has plastic pipes that drain the sewers beneath
A tube rises from the snow blanket
Like a ski-lift straight to the [...]

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&
my name is not yet a stone’s relief,
not yet a mossy page—
my bed still covered in grass.
Work still undone, unnamed.
The dirt under my nails is from
filling in my plot—pushing the stone.
& my grave is not yet confirmed;
hand, head & pump, still alive.
Better than alive and still.

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Just look at my fingertips
they have been burning bridges all day;
I’m out of matches—
but the sun is the biggest match
of all & with its reach
I’ll burn a hundred more.
Make peace with the one
who has burned down all bridges—
that person is matchless.

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“First melted off the hope of youth
Then Fancy’s rainbow fast withdrew
And then experience told me truth
In mortal bosoms never grew
‘Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow servile insincere-
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there”
-eb
(Sprang the land from up forth the garden came).
dark mask filtering the sky – even still [...]

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