Today's roundup includes news about a state girls’ high school wrestling tournament, a looming issue regarding disappearing nursing homes, and how extremist policies sweep through Iowa politics (Laura Belin, Art Cullen, Ed Tibbetts, and Barry Piatt). Plus, citizen engagement blooms for our In the Dirt columnist, Beth Hoffman.
Holy moly, see what Robert Leonard uncovered about the latest technology tools he’s demonstrating for us.
Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices column introduces us to a young Mennonite who helped change how LGBTQ are accepted within his religious organization.
Yet I also identify as gay… Part of who I am was being debated within my own church. Aiden Yoder, Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices
Cheryl Tevis asks a critical question: Is Iowa becoming a nursing home desert? Jody Gifford reminds us why membership in the Des Moines Art Center is enticing. Hola Iowa has an interview with a star appearing at the Des Moines Civic Center, and Julie Gammack posts a video of her Monday Zoom lunch session with Iowans reviving a poetry festival in Des Moines.
CHERYL TEVIS
JOHN NAUGHTON
LAURA BELIN
ART CULLEN
ED TIBBETTS
MARY SWANDER
BETH HOFFMAN
BARRY PIATT
DAVE BUSIEK
JODY GIFFORD
HOLA IOWA
ROBERT LEONARD
PAT KINNEY
KURT MEYER
SUZANNA DE BACA
MACEY SPENSLEY
TERESA ZILK
JULIE GAMMACK
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Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Columnists
Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights
Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines
Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake
Suzanna de Baca Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley
Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County
Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji
Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames
Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla
Dana James: New Black Iowa, Des Moines
Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo
Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames
Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey
Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa
Kurt Meyer, Showing Up, St. Ansgar
Kyle Munson, Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines
Jane Nguyen, The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines
John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines
Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines
Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics: Behind the Curtains, Washington, D.C.
Macey Spensley, The Midwest Creative, Davenport and Des Moines
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona
Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport
Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines
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