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Letter to the editor: Grassley lacks the judgment we need
By Dave Bradley, West Liberty This election, Chuck Grassley seems much more interested in fooling some of the people all the time, or at least enough Iowans to get him elected. Grassley’s newest lie is that IRS agents armed with AR-15s will be coming after taxpayers. This whopper came shortly after his lie about voting […]
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Voters can now request absentee ballots for the November election
Registered voters in Iowa can now request absentee ballots for the November general election from their county auditor’s office. The first day auditors can mail the ballots to voters who have requested them will be Oct. 19, the same day early in-person voting begins. Printable absentee ballot request forms are available on the Iowa Secretary […]
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Letter to the editor: Grassley and Miller-Meeks vote on the side of corporate profits
By Ellen Ballas, Iowa City Every Iowa Republican voted against the CHIPS Act which rightfully returns American semiconductor jobs to American workers. Senator Grassley told Radio Iowa it’s “corporate welfare.” Grassley habitually rewarded corporations with corporate welfare (tax breaks) for sending American jobs overseas. For example, Grassley voted NO in 2012 to the Bring Jobs […]
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Letter to the editor: Vote NO on Ballot Measure No. 1 to fight rising gun violence
By members of Johnson County’s Moms Demand Action It would be hard to find any reasonably informed Iowans who are unconcerned about the rising level of gun violence in our state. Most would agree that the last thing we need to be doing is tying our lawmakers’ hands if they attempt to enact commonsense gun […]
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Iowa photographer Samm Yu makes the finals in $20,000 national contest
Samm Yu got her first camera on her 16th birthday, her dad’s old Canon model. Three years later, Yu has turned a passion for photography into full-fledged portrait photography business. “I took photos of my friends, and then it started to become like a service I could provide for others, especially for my community,” Yu […]
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Film spotlighting North Liberty’s Golf View Mobile Home Park community to screen in Iowa cities
A Decent Home played to packed houses at FilmScene when director Sara Terry held screenings of the documentary this spring. The film tells the story of mobile home park residents as they try to preserve their communities and their homes after the parks are bought by private equity funds and other investors determined to maximize […]
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Letter to the editor: Franken will represent all Iowans in the U.S. Senate
By Paul Deaton, Solon I’ve been with retired Admiral Michael Franken enough to know he would make an excellent U.S. Senator. My comparison is with Tom Harkin, with whom I also spent time. Harkin is arguably Iowa’s best senator to date. If elected, Franken could also be one of the great U.S. Senators from Iowa. […]
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Book Review: ‘The Length of a Clenched Fist’ by L.A. Felleman
Written as a calendar documenting March through October, a single narrator moves through life in lockdown in L.A. Felleman’s The Length of a Clenched Fist (Finishing Line Press). If I hadn’t lived through 2020 I might not understand references like “While Italians Sing Arias From Balconies” (the first poem’s title) or “the square / Marked […]
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Book Review: ‘A Map for the Missing’ by Belinda Huijuan Tang
After the dedications page of her debut novel, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Belinda Huijuan Tang quotes Homer’s The Odyssey, a fitting harbinger for the journey she will take us on. Although A Map for the Missing (Penguin Press) is not the lighthearted summer read you might be looking for right now, it’s one […]
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Letter to the editor: Attorney General Miller is a longstanding force in Iowa politics
By Natalie Sherman, Des Moines One decade in politics can seem like a lifetime, so several decades and ten terms in office is certainly a momentous feat. While some might be ready to back down after so many years in the political arena, Attorney General Tom Miller seems to have no interest in slowing his […]
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Dear Kiki: My friend is having fertility issues. How do I tell her I’m pregnant?
Questions about love, sex or relationship can be submitted to dearkiki@littlevillagemag.com, or anonymously using this form. Questions may be edited for clarity and length, and may appear either in print or online. Dear Kiki, I have a really good friend who has been trying for over a year to get pregnant and is really frustrated […]
