Posted September 30, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Anyone who follows politics with even a challenged attention span can quickly summon from memory banks the basics of the 1960 presidential debates: Nixon sweating; Kennedy charming. Nixon, as the popular [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Tyson Fresh Meats’ decision to permanently cease beef-packing operations at its Denison plant in August jettisoned some 400 workers, many of them Latino immigrants with varying degrees of language proficiency and connections [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
It’s one of those moments that cements a friendship, reveals character in a longtime pal, makes you happy to be riding shotgun in his car. My friend Matt, a Cedar Rapids native now living [...]
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Posted September 09, 2015in Political Mercury
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says he’d cut short the run of the of the Renewable Fuel Standard to a “couple of years.” The ethanol-boosting federal mandate supported by a raft [...]
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Posted September 02, 2015in Political Mercury
An overflow audience at the Santa Maria Winery in Carroll Friday gave Carly Fiorina her most sustained applause before the Republican presidential aspirant even entered the room. Craig Williams, chairman of [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Political Mercury
Anti-abortion candidates like Carly Fiorina apparently don’t have much confidence in their ability to prevail. They haven’t thought or don’t want to talk about the key question a in Roe-reversed world [...]
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Posted August 19, 2015in Political Mercury
Call it the night the Iowa Democratic Clinton doubts died. Hillary Clinton didn’t sing. Or break out any instruments. But, according to several key Iowa Democrats, and by measures of [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Political Mercury
Maybe you’re yelling at your kid a little too much in the grocery. You hear your own voice raised, recognize the fault in it as Lucky Stars spill from the [...]
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Posted August 05, 2015in Political Mercury
Hillary Clinton says the next president of the United States must understand modern America, the changing nature of families, strong role of women, and use the Oval Office to bridge what [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Political Mercury
Only minutes into a town hall in Carroll Saturday morning, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, interrupted a compliment on his longevity and consistency of service from Dr. Walter Anneberg. “You’re a [...]
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