Peaches

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If John McPhee can write an entire book with the one word title “Oranges”, I can write an essay titled “Peaches.”

A Misstep in the Wrong Direction

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News on August 25 reported Sheriff Mike Naig unholstering his squirt gun yet again to apply a gentle mist onto the raging inferno that is Iowa’s water quality and overall environmental condition. This time it was $3 million from the state’s water quality initiative fund for a pilot project that would install buffer strips (i.e. […]

A Progressive Platform for Iowa Food and Agriculture

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Secretary of Agriculture is one of seven executive offices Iowans see on their off-year voting ballot. The Iowa legislature created both the office and the Department of Agriculture (now IDALS) in 1923. It may seem curious that we have a statewide election for the administrator of a department that employs less than 2% of the […]

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