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One of my brother’s is running for Grundy County supervisor. He is a life long republican. What follows is a bizarre bunch of nonsense coming from the Iowa GOP via current Iowa Rep. Phil Thompson – who has nothing to do with Grundy County – at all. I mean. There is a lot going on here so I reckon just listen and if you have questions – or answers for that matter as to why the Iowa GOP gives one […]
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By Me
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Andy Kopsa is a freelancer crafting her career from longform journalism, specializing in investigations. She has written for The Atlantic, The Nation and even Teen Vogue and was the recipient of a 2013 Knight Grant for Reporting on Religion in American Public Life from USC Annenberg. For The Nation, she tracked down LGBT inmates in Cameroon. Spent time with a mother who was gang-raped in front of her child for a piece in Cosmopolitan. And looked at the shaming of possible rape victim for the Riverfront […]
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I got a text message from my father. My first thought: impossible — that old man doesn’t know how to text. My second thought: impossible — my father is dead. My dad died on Sept. 4 — a Tuesday — just a month shy of his 82nd birthday. He was a farmer, just like my grandfather, and was the hardest working man I knew. There are four of us kids; my brother and I just over a year apart, then a five-year gap and two sisters […]
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Click image of PM Hun Sen above for my report from Cambodia this summer @ PRI
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For families like the Koesters, health care is more than just politicians arguing on cable news. In the year after the kidney transplant, Emily was diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma, had her lymph nodes removed from her neck as well as her adenoids, and started chemotherapy. During that same period, she was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of dwarfism called Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia (SIOD), which is also fatal. At the time, Erin says, the family was covered […]
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