Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Civil Society
Pity all those pugnacious political pundits — the ones who recently have been wailing, even louder and more obnoxiously than usual, about Iowa’s outsized-role in the presidential nominating process. They keep complaining that this state is far too small (only 3 million inhabitants) — and far too unrepresentative (they mean it’s too “white”) to have…
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There were roughly 750,000 weddings in America on that July evening, each special in its own way, but none finer than the one near Sedalia. On the rolling piedmont beneath the Rampart Range a few clicks south of Denver, where Cheyenne and Arapaho once married in much the same way, two souls became one as…
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Agriculture
As just about everyone around this part of the Midwest will tell you, the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines is a one-of-its-kind event. It’s been held for nearly 145 years, and these days, about one million Iowans attend each year. If that figure isn’t impressive enough, consider this: The state of Iowa’s population is…
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