Latest Stories By Caleb McCullough

In his first campaign rally since Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate for the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump attacked Walz and rallied support for a crucial Senate seat in Montana.  “If Comrade Walz and Comrade Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the […]

Joe Biden’s April 12 appearance in the small western Iowa town of Menlo, population 345, dropped the president in a state that Donald Trump carried handily in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Rural development is a key need in Iowa, and biofuel production is a big financial deal because Iowa ranks tops in the country […]

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed with President Biden Tuesday night, saying the state of the union is good because of its people. And, that was it. The rest of Reynold’s Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union was a sharp critique of the president’s performance from the White House. “Even before taking the oath […]

Gov. Kim Reynolds was ready to tout achievement when she stood before a joint session of the Iowa House and Senate Tuesday evening, Jan. 11. Such is the nature of the annual Condition of the State address, a ritual in which Iowa’s governors emphasize what they have accomplished but also states the direction they want […]

Conjecture that former President Donald Trump is seeking back the White House job he held for four years continued to generate news— and fact checks — in Iowa on Saturday night, Oct. 9. Trump’s latest visit was a Save America Rally that drew thousands of people to the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, and was […]

Iowa’s third and final U.S. Senate debate Thursday night was marred by technical difficulties for the first 20 minutes, as both Republican Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic candidate Theresa Greenfield struggled to hear moderators and dealt with their microphones frequently cutting out. Once the problems were resolved, the candidates sparred on health care, racial justice, […]