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Posted February 05, 2020in Sound Notes

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Valentine’s Day might be for lovers, but it’s also for live music. With cupid throwing arrows on a Friday night, you’ve got musical options. Jake Owen brings his Valentine’s Day acoustic set, “Down to the Tiki Tonk Tour,” to Hoyt Sherman Place with special guest Larry Fleet and support from

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Posted February 05, 2020in Rants & Reason

Religion’s harvest

Hope or hatred? Invitations to social gatherings may request: “Please, no talk about politics or religion,” but that’s likely redundant because talking about one often invokes the other. So while we have said goodbye to the Iowa caucus, the legislature is in session, and politics and religion remain in play.

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Posted February 04, 2020in Stray Thoughts

It’s time to overhaul, or end, the caucuses

For 40+ years, Iowa has been pulling the wool over the eyes of the free world every four years. It is time our state’s political leaders put aside their love of the national spotlight and retire the much-ballyhooed Iowa caucuses — or overhaul the process to address the obvious flaws

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