Caitlin Clark's story keeps adding texture, and author Christine Brennan is returning to Iowa to share more of it Brennan's 2025 book about Clark was a New York Times Best Seller, and an updated paperback edition is coming in May with new stories and information about the former Hawkeye/current WNBA superstar

Iowa’s biggest import might not be corn.
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We love to pay for drinking water Bottled water fills a niche but also is an alternative to poor drinking water quality in parts of Iowa

We hydrate now instead of drink water.
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Is it Independents' hour? Maybe it's time to heed the Founders' warning about political partisanship.

An argument for no-party candidates.
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Free speech rights are fine at Iowa’s public universities, regents survey shows This, despite complaints from conservatives that they don’t have a voice at the universities

Almost nine of every 10 students at Iowa’s public universities say they feel comfortable expressing their opinions, according to a study released on Monday. So then, why the big deal from conservatives who say their speech is being suppressed?
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The White House Capitulation Dinner Get ready. Trump is about to stain another Washington tradition. He just might ruin it for good.

“...what will unfold will be memorialized as an indictment of corporate media’s capitulation to a dictator wannabe.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Iowa lawmakers wag their legal fingers Bolstering a resume with phony degrees will no longer be allowed (but for one big exception)

Once again, the Iowa Legislature excuses itself from a transparency issue. And please note, Democrats are OK exempting themselves when in power, too.
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Free speech rights are fine at Iowa’s public universities, regents survey shows This, despite complaints from conservatives that they don’t have a voice at the universities

Turns out, students at Iowa’s public universities generally feel free to express their opinions on matters related to classes, data released tay show. open.substack.com/pub/lylemull...

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Free speech rights are fine at Iowa’s public universities, regents survey shows This, despite complaints from conservatives that they don’t have a voice at the universities

Free speech rights are fine at Iowa’s public universities, regents survey shows
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Julie Gammack of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative speaking via Zoom with Grinnell College’s Scarlet & Black staff today. The collaborative has a new Emerging Journalists Corp.

Julie Gammack of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative speaking via Zoom with Grinnell College’s Scarlet & Black staff today. The collaborative has a new Emerging Journalists Corp.

Julie Gammack of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative speaking via Zoom with @grinnellcollege.bsky.social Scarlet & Black staff today. The collaborative has a new Emerging Journalists Corp.

Students allege former Grinnell College career adviser Michael Lawrence behaved inappropriately Some Grinnell students and alumni say they are glad that Michael Lawrence, Grinnell College’s former business and finance career adviser, no longer works at the College because they alleged he engaged...

Tough story to write under threat of being sued. Proud of the Scarlet & Black reporters for their careful but determined approach to this Grinnell College story.
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Iowa’s future is secure if we can gather on common ground Abby Elsbernd from the Quad Cities was glad to learn that the revered and recently retired football coach at Northern Iowa, Mark Farley, is known as the “walk-on from Waukon.”

Placing blame for Iowa's political mess where it belongs -- outsiders -- but those who succumb to their intoxicants bear blame, too.
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Still Talking... Eighteen years of broadcast meteorology taught me one thing: the public deserves the truth about climate change, whether the people in power want them to have it or not.

Iowa Nice:
“What’s your home address, we conservative Iowans would like to give you an Iowan welcome you will never forget.”
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Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Legacy of Holocaust survivor and education advocate Sam Harris `58 In 2022, Grinnell College President Anne Harris, alongside Chief of Staff and Vice President of Administration Myrna Hernández, received a personal tour of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education ...

Holocaust survivor who graduated from an Iowa college dies.
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Iran war has wide impact on one Iowa college's heavily-international student body By Akira Keene Teotrakool, The Scarlet & Black

Iran war has wide impact on one Iowa college's heavily-international student body
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Interesting student opinion piece about Northwestern College in Iowa. “Northwestern College has phased out the use of the liberal arts in its branding.”

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Hot dang. The Iowa Capital Dispatch’s lead story today is by a writer in the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Emerging Journalists Corps and Grinnell College’s Scarlet & Black.
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Iran war has wide impact on one Iowa college's international student body • Iowa Capital Dispatch Fighting in the Middle East forced the cancellation of a March overseas study trip to Bahrain by Grinnell College students, one of several disruptions to student life at Iowa’s most diverse private co...

From one of my Scarlet & Black students and the first Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Emerging Journalists Corps news story published by the Iowa Capital Dispatch.
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Drag shows, dance marathon for U of I Childrens' Hospital, faculty salaries and Chuck Grassley A round-up of news you might have missed, from Iowa's emerging journalists

Please read this and support our new effort in Iowa to expose Iowa’s college journalists to a new level, and wider readership.

Student musicians bring Grateful Dead-inspired concert to show for crisis services A student band will take the stage tonight at the Grinnell School of Music, performing a full set of Grateful Dead songs in support of Iowa Crisis Intervention Services. The concert will feature Grate...

The Greatful Dead live on tonight at @grinnellcollege.bsky.social

Two Holy Day messages from Iowa political candidates 0413 A Letter From Iowan Gordie Felger

"Neither of these messages speaks to me on a spiritual level. But I can evaluate the two emails from a messaging perspective." -- Gordie Felger, Hiawatha, Iowa. open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

God help us.

Pesticides and cancer risk in farming communities A virtual conversation on pesticide exposure and cancer risk in agricultural communities, grounded in data and reporting.

One-hour Zoom panel discussion on the personal health risks our love affair with pesticides creates. Free. From @investigatemidwest.bsky.social
Important stuff. Be there.
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Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual Guest Article from John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute

“That this egomaniacal, bloviating demagogue has become the face of today’s evangelical movement underscores the profound disconnect between what Christianity should be and what it has become in the American police state.”
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Don't let your guard down when you click on a site. Or respond to a text. Or answer your phone. Cybercrime spans the globe, and hits close to home

Cautionary tale about scamming that can happen to you.
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Signed into law in Iowa today, a law prohibiting local governments from issuing identification cards for residents. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

China looms large in Oklahoma governor’s race over foreign ownership of farmland - Investigate Midwest Foreign ownership of farmland, which was once a niche concern in agricultural policy circles, has become a prominent political issue in Oklahoma. In this year’s Republican primary for governor, candid...

Important topic in Iowa, although state law prohibits foreign ownership of farmland. In Oklahoma, China and foreign farmland ownership are part of the governor’s race.
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