Posted October 17, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
The urgency in Congressman Steve King’s words sent me searching for a 1984 movie I hadn’t seen since, well, 1984 — on VHS. If what the Kiron Republican insisted in Orange City the other night is not mere campaign clutter but skin-shivering clairvoyance, we need to be locked and loaded,
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Posted October 10, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
It’s a great irony. Not cruel. Just there. I’m in the business of conversation, recording it, creating it to illuminate issues, people, the many communities we cover. But I was too young to hear the most important conservations of my own life, the ones between my biological teen mother
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Posted October 03, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Polls show King in tightest race of career The two candidates for the newly drawn 4th Congressional District Thursday night faced their first pointed debate questions on three of the more defining social issues in modern politics. And the answers of U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, and Ames Democrat Christie
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Posted September 28, 2012in Political Mercury
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a high-profile Republican with clear national ambitions, championed a small-government theme in a colorful conservational speech to a partisan crowd in Sioux City on Sept. 20. “We don’t belong to the government; the government belongs to us,” Christie said. Christie, 49, a former U.S. attorney
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