‘A Fever In The Heartland’
Twenty one years ago, Chuck Offenburger and I had ringside seats for a rare and fascinating journalistic forum: the now late George “Lefty” Mills, the legendary Des Moines Register reporter; the late [...]
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Posted January 03, 2024in Political Mercury
Posted October 04, 2023in Political Mercury
Presidential candidate Burgum positions himself as ‘small-town kid’
Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum, a North Dakotan with rural roots, says energy independence and strategies to develop a strong economy are central features of his campaign. What’s more, the [...]
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Posted September 06, 2023in Political Mercury
DEI is so politicized now — and misunderstood
Life at its best — the growth of family, development of friendships and pursuit of professional passions — is about addition, not subtraction. That’s the mindset I walked away with [...]
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Posted August 02, 2023in Political Mercury
Presidential candidate wants to chase hate from public life
A pastor and businessman from Texas, with roots in Georgia, is pinning his presidential bid on a Christian ethos of bringing divided people together on common issues. Ryan Binkley, a [...]
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Posted July 05, 2023in Political Mercury
‘A Fever In The Heartland’
Twenty one years ago, Chuck Offenburger and I had ringside seats for a rare and fascinating journalistic forum: the now late George “Lefty” Mills, the legendary Des Moines Register reporter, the late [...]
Read More →
Posted May 31, 2023in Political Mercury
Council Bluffs’ Turek in conversation as ‘next Tom Harkin’
There is, of course, only one Tom Harkin, a retired U.S. senator who constructed a legislative and political legacy few Democrats in Iowa — and indeed the nation — have. [...]
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Posted May 03, 2023in Political Mercury
Obama Presidential Center should establish Iowa satellite branch
Hawaii is Barry Obama’s home state, and Illinois is Senator Barack Obama’s home state, but Iowa is President Obama’s home state. One of the last questions I asked President Barack [...]
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Posted April 05, 2023in Political Mercury
Workplace law changes would exploit children, labor leaders say
Labor leaders, parents and Council Bluffs community members say proposed radical changes to Iowa’s child-labor laws would redefine what it means to be a kid in the state, placing young [...]
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Posted March 01, 2023in Political Mercury
Is Kari Lake a 2024 presidential candidate?
The Republican candidate for governor of Arizona in the last cycle, Kari Lake, an embattled and ascendent conservative with a rocketing national profile, pulled a crowd in Ankeny on Feb. [...]
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Posted February 01, 2023in Political Mercury
How Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds could become president
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds insists a life in Washington is not for her. I believed her when she told me this near the shores of Black Hawk Lake in Lake [...]
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