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In Plain Terms, What Carbon Capture Is
Capture, Utilization, and Storage Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a process...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 24, 2025
Summary Iowa’s December 24 news cycle paints a picture of instability across multiple sectors –...
Reasons Why Med Students Leave Iowa after Graduation
Opinion Summary In a January 2025 Des Moines Register guest editorial, medical student (and now...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 23, 2025
Summary Iowa farmers, transgender residents, and immigrant communities are all feeling the effects...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 21, 2025
Summary Today’s Iowa411 News Briefs examine the impact of Trump-era federal grant cuts on rural...
The Skinny
AG Bird All-in for Supporting Trump Birthright Citizenship Policy
AG Bird Leads States in Supporting Trump Birthright Citizenship Policy Traditionally, a state attorney general is the...
Food Deprivation: A Crisis Manufactured to Hurt Americans
This essay explores how the suspension of SNAP benefits during the 2025 federal government shutdown is not an accident of...
States Sue to Keep SNAP Benefits as Trump Moves to End Them
Shutdown fight threatens to cut off aid for 43 million Americans Attorneys general and governors from 25 Democratic-led...
The Triad Expands: Iowa Education Enforcer Heads to Washington
Editor's Note: The Gazette reported on October 29 that David Barker's move to Washington has been postponed due to the...
The Big Beautiful Bill Is Coming for Rural Iowa
The Big Beautiful Bill Is Coming for Rural Iowa Let’s cut the polite talk and tell the truth: They called it the “Big...
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with the Devil, Part 2
The Devil’s Playbook: An Interview from the Bottom Floor Note: this is the second article in a two-part series to document...
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with the Devil, Part 1: The Architect
Exclusive Access to the Dark Lord Note: this is the first article in a two-part series to document my interview with the...