Iowa’s future is secure if we can gather on common ground - Storm Lake Times Pilot 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.” The Grinnell …

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Trump sinking Republican hopes in Iowa - Storm Lake Times Pilot Ashley Hinson and Randy Feenstra might regret hitching their wagons to Donald Trump’s star. It could turn out to be the Hindenburg. Rep. Hinson says she is honored to fight beside Trump …

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The Fred Flintstone Doctrine in the Middle East - Storm Lake Times Pilot President Trump took over the TV to tell the world that he intends to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age. God Bless America. And YABADABADOO! I had been thinking that I might be losing my …

Here’s my latest column. YABADABADOO!
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Curiosity & the Essential Question of News, with Art Cullen Art Cullen is the editor and co-owner with his brother John of the Storm Lake Times Pilot, a weekly newspaper in that Northwest Iowa county seat – a town of about 12,000. He has a lot to say to and ab...

Happy that @artcullen.bsky.social ‘s episode on Choose To Be Curious with Lynn Borton will be on the entire Pacifica Radio Network lynnborton.com/2026/03/19/c...

A state of denial - Storm Lake Times Pilot Your typical dude avoids doctors and their probes because they would just find something wrong with him. Who needs that? Been there myself, for sure. Sometimes you’re forced to go and a blood …

Here is my latest column, about how Iowa is afraid to find out the truth about cancer.
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"A lack of fertilizer is going to lead to less food."

@artcullen.bsky.social Editor Art Cullen on the impact of the Iran war on Iowa farmers.

"You don’t see the Trump flags flying in Iowa like you used to.” Talking with the legendary Art Cullen about his new book.

It's National Agriculture Day, so here's a talk I had with the legendary @artcullen.bsky.social a couple months back about his book Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest.

Storm Lake is a launchpad for the pursuit of happiness - Storm Lake Times Pilot Storm Lake is a portal for refugees in pursuit of happiness, whatever that may be. Lao. Sudanese. Karin. It ain’t easy trying to be free. That’s an immediate impression after a sneak …

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An old newshound sniffs a rural shift - Storm Lake Times Pilot Penpal David Yepsen senses a shift heading into the midterm elections: Rural folks are honked off and voting for change. The retired political columnist for The Des Moines Register and former …

Here’s my latest column: Former political columnist David Yepsen still has his nose in the wind.
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Iowa: What a bummer - Storm Lake Times Pilot Fog set thick outside while serotonin ran thin inside on this early March morning of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in Iowa. If I had the gumption I would go jump in the lake. It only gets worse …

Here is my latest column: We need divided government.
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Opinion | Politicians Are Trying to Control the News

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A wolf in farmer’s clothing - Storm Lake Times Pilot Belle Plaine farmer Zach Lahn caught the nation’s attention last week talking up conservation agriculture with none other than Tucker Carlson, who was too far over the line for Fox News and is an …

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Editorials: Silencing the press - Storm Lake Times Pilot Leading legislators bent on hobbling Iowa’s community newspapers so they can keep the public in the dark are lurching forward. A bill to eliminate public notices from newspapers cleared the Senate …

Here’s an editorial about the American Taliban trying to starve out journalism and keep the public in the dark.
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How Agricultural Concerns Are Shifting Iowa’s Political Landscape Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen says agricultural issues like water pollution and cancer risk could sway the midterm elections.

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Iowa Republicans raise property taxes more than a socialist - Storm Lake Times Pilot That damn socialist mayor out in New York threatened to hike property taxes by 9.5% unless he can ram through a wealth tax. Wait a New York minute: Property taxes on our humble metal shed along …

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Iowa Republicans raise property taxes more than a socialist That damn socialist mayor out in New York threatened to hike property taxes by 9.5% unless he can ram through a wealth tax.

by @artcullen.bsky.social “our property taxes are the eighth-highest in America. That’s affordability, as they say.

“We pay over $7,000 a year in property taxes, and local Boss Hoggs call us an ‘enemy of the people.’ I call them self-serving socialists who think the people are their tax slaves”

If you build it, the Bears won’t come - Storm Lake Times Pilot “The Rock Island Independents had a mighty fine line,” the Republican senators sang at the bar. “I may be right and I may be wrong but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone.” So they pushed …

Here’s my latest column about how disconnected Iowa politicians are.
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Hlas column: Reality of the Hawkeye men’s limitations this season was vivid and vexing vs. Purdue - Hawk Fanatic By Mike Hlas IOWA CITY, Iowa – So now we’ll see how Iowa men’s basketball draws for an 8 p.m. game this coming Tuesday. The guess here isn’t really a guess at all. It won’t be standing room only when ...

My column for HawkFanatic.com: The reality of the Iowa men's basketball team's limitations this season was vivid and vexing in its 78-57 loss to No. 7 Purdue Saturday at Carver. It also shouldn't be surprising. Rome and Gonzaga weren't built in a day. hawkfanatic.com/2026/02/14/h...

Feenstra’s lament: Iowa GOP is no picture of unity - Storm Lake Times Pilot Kim Reynolds has occupied the spot as the most unpopular governor in America nearly as long as Terry Branstad wore a mustache in Terrace Hill. She ran up a whale of a deficit and is skedaddling after ...

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Iowa’s Annual Starve The Schools Mess As usual, Iowa’s Republicans cut the heart out of Iowa’s public schools.  3 minutes:     Former President Biden famously said:  “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I will tell yo…

#Iowa can't vote the Reynolds cabal out soon enough. "The shortfall this year alone amounts to >$1,000 per student- >half a billion statewide..Boone district has to terminate the school orchestra that has given the community great pride for 100 years.And they have to cut 8 FT positions beyond that.”

Trump comes to Iowa for comfort amid the cold - Storm Lake Times Pilot The Sac News shared on Facebook my column from last week lamenting our loss of freedom, which generated a lot of insight in the comments, like “Art Cullen sits down when he pees.” That …

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Art Cullen and Bob Leonard Discuss the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort A recording from Robert Leonard and Art Cullen's live video

@artcullen.bsky.social and @robertleonard.bsky.social Art Cullen and Bob Leonard Discuss the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort #iowa

“Trump campaigned on terrorizing immigrants and restricting trade. Release the clutch on your pearls, this is precisely what America bargained for, and Iowa in particular. Sixty percent say they think he has gone too far. Just where did you think he was going?”

Who could not see the freight train coming for your freedom? - Storm Lake Times Pilot ICE is in Mason City. Breathless reports in Iowa City and West Liberty. Just saw the car in Spencer. Blow the whistles! When will the boot drop on Storm Lake or Denison? Chatter, chatter, …

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Condition of the State: Code Blue - Storm Lake Times Pilot For the ninth time, Gov. Kim Reynolds told us last week the condition of the state is strong. Except we have the worst economy of the 50 states, and personal income growth was 48th last year, …

Here’s my latest column. Kim Reynolds is a pitiful governor.
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It’s in the mail.

What's Eating Iowa: Episode 2 - Cancer YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities

Pulitzer winner @artcullen.bsky.social on the soaring cancer rates in Iowa. A healthcare and environmental sacrifice zone.

If you want to get quickly blocked, here's how: ask how people with cancer voted. As if that matters to whether or not they deserve compassion.

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FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

Breaking news: The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

What’s Eating Iowa A documentary series, Episode 2, Cancer

Check our Episode 2: Cancer, from our video documentary series “What’s Eating Iowa?”
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Grumpy for good cause - Storm Lake Times Pilot So I’ve become that grumpy old man. Not funny like Walter Matthau. Just grumpy. Curmudgeonly, somebody said. Shrill. I wake up PO’d. It’s hard to stay in good humor when dawn breaks to a …

From the middle of beet-red Iowa, the best description of this nightmare.
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