Ames Progressive

The following is the full text of Nick Lindsley’s three-part interview with Bill Ayers. Ayers is a former member of the Weather Underground, a radical leftist organization active in the ’60s. Today, Ayers is a Professor at the University of Illinois. The interviews originally appeared in Volume 1, Issues 2, 3 and 6 of the […]

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Selden Spencer is a Democrat and neurologist from Huxley who practices at Ames’ McFarland Clinic. In 2006, he challenged 4th district Republican Representative Tom Latham, receiving 43 percent of the vote. He decided not to run again this year over concerns that he would be unable to run a competitive race.
Spencer first spoke with the […]

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Fourth district congressional candidate Becky Greenwald speaks to voters at a house party in Ames on April 30. (photo: Gavin Aronsen/The Progressive)
Becky Greenwald is a farmer and Democratic Party activist. For the past 22 years, she has been involved in Iowa agriculture, first with the Garst Seed Company and then Pioneer Hi-Bred, where she […]

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Fourth district congressional candidate Kurt Meyer sits down for an interview at the Ames Progressive Office on March 25. (photo: Gavin Aronsen/The Progressive)
Kurt Meyer has made a career working for nonprofit organizations ranging from nursing homes and hospitals to museums and libraries. In 1988 he started a company to assist nonprofits that has since […]

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Fourth district congressional candidate William J. Meyers with his wife Raphaela Boehm at Old Chicago on February 9, when the two first met with the Progressive. (photo: Gavin Aronsen/The Progressive)
William J. Meyers is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, a job that took him to London, where he specialized on counterterrorism work […]

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Fourth district congressional candidate Kevin Miskell speaks with the Progressive at his campaign headquarters on March 28. (photo: Gavin Aronsen/The Progressive)
Kevin Miskell is a fifth-generation Iowa farmer and the former vice president of the Iowa Farmers Union, where he worked on a wide range of agricultural political advocacy involving sustainable agriculture and family farming. […]

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If I’ve learned anything about libertarians, it’s that they know how to have a good time. There’s a place on the 500 block of Hayward Avenue in Ames called the Liberty House II, ground zero of my ties to the university libertarian community here and the locale of more than a few heavily intoxicated nights […]

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Ed Fallon speaks with the Progressive at his campaign headquarters office on January 28. (photo: Gavin Aronsen/The Progressive)
On his shift to national politics…
Well, I had thought about where I could most make a difference in the world, and I spent a long time thinking about that because, personally, I like being in Iowa. There’s […]

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The following is the full transcript of the Progressive’s interview with Selden Spencer. An abbreviated version appeared in the print version of Issue 2.4 as “A Quickie with Selden Spencer.”
Selden Spencer is a neurologist from Huxley who works at McFarland Clinic in Ames. In 2006, he challenged Republican Congressman Tom Latham in Iowa’s 4th district. […]

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The following is the complete transcript of the Ames Progressive’s interview with Connecticut Senator and former presidential candidate Chris Dodd from when he visited Iowa State University on a campaign stop November 27 of last year. The majority of this transcript was featured in the December 2007 article “Why Won’t You Let Me Say What […]

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