Iowa

Allan on April 29th, 2022

Tierra Stansberry’s dream was to see the ocean.   Some readers may not think that’s such a big deal. But Tierra was from Iowa, and to those of us folks who grew up in landlocked Midwestern states, seeing the ocean is a big deal.  Tierra finally went to California, hoping to see the ocean.  We don’t […]

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Mollie Tibbetts was a 20-year old student in the University of Iowa who worked at a children’s day camp.  On July 18th, 2018, in the summer before what would have been her sophomore year, Mollie went jogging in the countryside near Brooklyn, Iowa. Mollie didn’t show up at her job the next day, so a […]

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Poor Jeb.  Jeb thinks that he can be the “Hispanic Candidate”.  But among Hispanic Republicans, Jeb is trailing Donald Trump! Jeb thinks his support for Puerto Rican statehood, and Puerto Rican bankruptcy relief are going to win him votes. But in Iowa, it’s not working.  It doesn’t look like such positions are gaining support among […]

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