It's Sunday: Here's your Iowa Writers' Collaborative Roundup
It's Sunday: Here's your Iowa Writers' Collaborative Roundup
...local sports, politics, personal observations and more
Laura Belin follows the Iowa Legislature as best as anyone can. And, the state’s executive branch. And more. Elections have consequences, and the last few have wrought changes making the state unrecognizable. Catch up to what’s happening in Belin’s columns.
Iowa’s legendary folksinger appeared in two of our columnist’s offerings this week. Check out Kyle Munson and Art Cullen, to catch up on the Iowa Waltz composer’s views.
Bob Leonard and Dave Busiek touch on the decline of legacy newspapers. The Iowa Writers’ Collaborative gets a shout-out in a new book on the subject Leonard reviews.
As for legendary, our sports and culture columnist, John Naughton, tells about a rising star from Waukee, a leader on and off the basketball court.
Issues such as book banning (Cheryl Tevis), guns (Mary Sander’s Emerging Voices) and mental health issues facing youth (Doug Burns). Burns also writes about Governor Kim Reynolds this week.
Our columnists get personal, too. Check out Macey Spensley, Jane Nguyen, Kurt Meyer, Teresa Silk, and Suzanna de Baca as they give us insights into their observations from personal experience.
Julie Gammack is turning her Monday Zoom lunch calls into a talk show format and she’s opening the sessions to all subscribers. Check out her upcoming guests.
Reporting and feature stories help us all understand our community and state. Hola Iowa and Pat Kinney’s columns do just that this week.
Barry Piatt opines about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the ‘wobbly’ mixed messages from the GOP.
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KYLE MUNSON
ART CULLEN
ROBERT LEONARD
DAVE BUSIEK
JOHN NAUGHTON
LAURA BELIN
MARY SWANDER
JANE NGUYEN
ED TIBBETTS
DOUGLAS BURNS
MACEY SPENSLEY
CHERYL TEVIS
SUZANNA DE BACA
JULIE GAMMACK
HOLA IOWA
PAT KINNEY
TERESA ZILK
KURT MEYER
BARRY PIATT
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
Nik Heftman, The Seven Times, Los Angeles and Iowa
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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