posted on January 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Photographer Norma Reed is a down-to-earth Iowan with rural roots that enrich her vision of the state. Through her lens Iowans can enjoy the state’s cherished features in images that nourish the Iowa soul.
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posted on December 4, 2007 at 1:50 PM

For Marvin Bell, a long-time professor at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a former Iowa Poet laureate, and perhaps for many new Iowans, acquiring the identity of an Iowan comes in accepting and appreciating all the things that Iowa is not.
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posted on November 14, 2007 at 3:33 PM

Just 23 years ago now, Iowa was facing the greatest crisis in its agricultural sector since the Great Depression. The farm debt crisis and the subprime mortgage foreclosure debacle of 2007 share several parallels. Professor Emeritus Neil Harl explains.
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posted on October 26, 2007 at 9:19 AM

Nicholas Johnson is a visiting law professor at the University of Iowa. In a previous life he was a member of the Federal Communications Commission. He remains a populist, and while he is still concerned about the current condition of the nation’s broadcast resources, he’s also a little worked up about taxes and tax breaks.
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posted on October 16, 2007 at 3:33 PM

Ethanol has been much in the news of late and for good reason. It’s been driving the state’s commodity prices to levels not ever seen. But with an eye on history, seasoned Iowa State Economist Neil Harl cautions that gravity also applies to bull markets.
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