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The politics of pinto beans 27 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
Steve King's nightmare, in the grocery aisle: The Washington Post looks at the growing success of ethnic food company Goya: Joe Perez takes Progresso Soup -- now owned by General Mills -- as a cautio...
Will Iowans Be Able To Caucus Twice? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
John Deeth Blog Exclusive For the first time ever, individual Iowans may be able to caucus twice, with both the Democrats and the Republicans, next January. If the current schedule holds, the two par...
Events This Week: August 26-September 2 26 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
I'm changing d the format a bit for an eight-day week; will send the Beatles their royalties later. Impossible to keep up with the candidate coffees anymore, as forum season starts: The Friends of C...
The Week In Review: August 19-25 25 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
My top story of the week, of course, was Anesa Kajtazovic making her formal congressional announcement. My unrestrained glee was enough to earn me a .Gif-t Shop mention, but I'm not the one who said “...
Dandekar Gets Odd Quasi-endorsement 21 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
Swati Dandekar just picked up what looks a lot like a legislative endorsement from the northern tier of the 1st CD, from State Rep. Josh Byrnes of Osage. Just to clarify: Byrnes is a Republican. Dand...
House 33: Game Over 21 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
The House 33 special election moved quickly to the clerk hiring stage as Des Moines City Council member Brian Meyer announced his candidacy. Two declared candidates, Karl Schilling (who announced wit...
Kajtazovic Official Today 20 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
Today is the Official® rollout of the Anesa Kajtazovic congressional campaign, with a four stop announcement tour of the 1st CD. It's still a milestone, even though it had been pretty clear since very...
Events This Week: August 19-25 19 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
Back to school, as Iowa City district students return Wednesday. In the Deeth-Steele-Cox home this means our guys are the Big Kids at their respective schools: sixth grade at Horn and eighth grade at ...
The Week In Review: August 12-18 18 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
The State fair led off the week with a bloody Butter Cow and ended up with Scott Brown, so from bad to worse. But in between Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar stepped just far enough over our northern border...
And then he's going to California! And Texas! And Oregon! And Michigan! 16 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
"4. No politician goes to Iowa by accident. NONE." That's one of Chris Cillizza's "5 immutable rules of politics" posted just this past Monday, after a weekend of especially intense Republican activis...
