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		<title>The Iowa Republican Publishes Map of Register Employees&#8217; Homes to Protest School Security Report</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/04/03/authors/gavin-aronsen/the-iowa-republican-publishes-map-of-register-employees-homes-to-protest-school-security-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a trollish critique of a recent Des Moines Register interactive map detailing which Iowa school districts had on-campus security, The Iowa Republican managing editor Jeff Patch created a Google map identifying the addresses and home values of Register editors and executives. Last week, the Register&#8216;s map had been quickly removed from the story it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iowa Republican Profiles &#8220;Republic for Iowa&#8221; Senator Randi Shannon</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/04/03/authors/gavin-aronsen/the-iowa-republican-profiles-republic-for-iowa-senator-randi-shannon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Randi Shannon, the Republican who was challenging incumbent Democratic state Sen. Liz Mathis in Linn County last year before bizarrely dropping out of the race to accept a position as a senator of the Republic of the united States of America? She&#8217;s old news by now, but on April Fools&#8217; Day Jeff Patch, managing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Register School Security Map Outrages Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/04/01/authors/gavin-aronsen/register-school-security-map-outrages-conservatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, the Des Moines Register published the results of a survey of Iowa school districts that asked whether they had regular security on their premises. The news value was pretty clear: after the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, policymakers across the country began discussing school security. National Rifle Association CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapist Creston Cop Proclaimed Innocence Citing Marital Rape-Supporting Witchcraft Jurist from 17th Century</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/03/22/authors/gavin-aronsen/creston-cop-convicted-of-rape-proclaims-innocence-by-quoting-defender-of-marital-rape-witchcraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the Des Moines Register reported that supporters of two Creston police officers convicted of sexual assault showed up at the Capitol with more than 800 signatures petitioning Gov. Terry Branstad to release the cops from prison and grant them a new trial. They were convicted in 2009 for the rape of a bartender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Iowa GOP Congressman: WMDs an &#8220;Exaggerated Rationale for War&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/03/20/authors/gavin-aronsen/former-iowa-gop-congressman-wmds-an-exaggerated-rationale-for-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, the Huffington Post tracked down five of the seven Republicans in Congress who voted against the invasion. One of them was former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, who told HuffPo, &#8220;If we didn’t know after years of review and international inspections where alleged nuclear capacities were located and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Ten Years On</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/03/19/editorials/iraq-ten-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago tonight, after assuring the American people just days before that &#8220;we are doing everything we can to avoid war,&#8221; George W. Bush launched his infamous misadventure in Iraq. Predicated on what can only be described as the callous lies that Saddam Hussein was in league with al Qaeda and actively pursuing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmaker Apologizes for Distributing Racist Newspaper Report</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/03/19/authors/gavin-aronsen/lawmaker-apologizes-for-distributing-racist-newspaper-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in the longstanding tradition of state lawmakers who ignore the Ames Progressive&#8216;s requests for comments, GOP state Rep. Dave Maxwell of Gibson instead contacted the Des Moines Register to apologize for distributing the racist Montezuma Record report on University of Iowa salaries to his House colleagues. Maxwell told the Register yesterday that he hadn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Go Weed the Garden,&#8221; Publisher of Racist Report Tells His Critics</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/03/17/authors/gavin-aronsen/go-weed-the-garden-publisher-of-racist-report-tells-his-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Jim Romenesko picked up our story about a racist report in the Montezuma Record, its publisher and editor in chief Chuck Dunham shrugged off the controversy, explaining that he wasn&#8217;t even aware of it because he didn&#8217;t use the internet. Yesterday, the Cedar Rapids Gazette published more thoughts from Dunham, who continued to dismiss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montezuma Record Publishes Racist Report on U of I Salaries (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2013/03/14/authors/gavin-aronsen/montezuma-record-publishes-racist-report-on-u-of-i-salaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garonsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE II, Friday, March 15, 1:09 p.m.: Progress Iowa executive director Matt Sinovic told the Progressive that GOP state Rep. Dave Maxwell, who represents Poweshiek County, requested that House members receive a copy of Thursday&#8217;s Record, which is how the paper ended up in Des Moines. Maxwell owns a business in Gibson called Maxwell Tiling, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairfield Artists Release Slew of New Videos and Material</title>
		<link>http://amesprogressive.org/2012/11/30/authors/nate-logsdon/fairfield-artists-release-slew-of-new-videos-and-material/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of activity coming out of the Fairfield scene in the past two weeks, adding to an already thick catalog of fascinating music and videos from a crew of artists largely associated with The Beauty Shop and the St. Mary&#8217;s Project. First, there&#8217;s the new video from the pop duo Trouble [...]]]></description>
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