Why they support Trump
Thousands gather at Iowa State Fairgrounds on Oct. 9 to advocate for the former president. Supporters of former President Trump who showed up in the thousands at the Iowa State Fairgrounds [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Political Mercury
Posted October 06, 2021in Political Mercury
Why Tom Miller is running for an 11th term
The nation’s longest-serving state attorney general says his health and vitality are strong. Tom Miller, the nation’s longest-serving state attorney general, will seek an 11th four-year term in the office next fall, saying [...]
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Posted September 01, 2021in Political Mercury
Defund the police? ‘We have no job for them to do,’ says rural U.S. Senate candidate
Dr. Glenn Hurst wants less-traditional police, more mental-health services. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Glenn Hurst said Iowans need only look at his small city of Minden to see life [...]
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Posted August 04, 2021in Political Mercury
Noem’s opening Iowa acts show star quality
The 49-year-old South Dakota governor is supremely telegenic and wonderfully folksy, smart and unapologetic. The recent Family Leader Summit in Des Moines served as a one-two punch, and something of a [...]
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Posted June 30, 2021in Political Mercury
Reynolds’ ‘both sidesism’ buries Black Hawk’s words with his stolen remains
An obsession with balance can obscure the truth. In his brilliantly performed new audio book “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell, using expert reporting, inviting prose and riveting sound effects, including actual [...]
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Posted May 24, 2021in Political Mercury
Muhlbauer running for Grassley’s Senate seat
Manilla Democrat plans to spotlight farming, education, infrastructure and health care. Former Crawford County Supervisor Dave Muhlbauer, a Manilla farmer and cattleman with deep family roots in rural Iowa politics, [...]
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Posted May 05, 2021in Political Mercury
We must see ourselves as part of our nation’s diversity
In an age of scarcity (for many) and excess (for the few), the language and policies of diversity become zero-sum. What another gets, you lose. So goes the polarized thinking that [...]
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Posted March 31, 2021in Political Mercury
Meet the man behind Iowa’s Twitter vaccine finder
The mother of a 7-year-old Iowan said she’s used the recently launched and increasingly popular public-minded Twitter account Iowa Vaccine Alerts as a real-life and contemporary example of what the [...]
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Posted March 03, 2021in Political Mercury
Grassley may seek 70 years of consecutive political office in Iowa
At age 87, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, first elected to office during the Eisenhower administration, smiled broadly when pressed by audience members about a potential re-election campaign next year in [...]
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Posted February 03, 2021in Political Mercury
Hawaii is Barry Obama’s home state, Illinois is Barack Obama’s home state, but Iowa is President Obama’s home state.
In incoming U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Iowa has not just an experienced hand leading a federal agency vital to the Hawkeye State’s economy, but he is a close [...]
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