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Updated 04/05/2023
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Updated 19/12/2023
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Series

16/10/2025

Ruth Harkin shares how she broke ceilings with humor and heart in her memoir

Ruth Harkin reflects on her career and memoir, When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories. Plus, what gravestones can teach us about history ahead of the annual Oakland Cemetery walk.

16/10/2025

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48 min
20/11/2018

Egregious Acts of Coercion

Human trafficking is one of the world’s largest criminal industries. It’s a form of human slavery, often a form of sexual exploitation, and it happens everywhere, even in Iowa.

20/11/2018

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40 min
16/05/2025

Kiwi berries? Fur-get about it

If you're up for a wee challenge, kiwi berries are a delicious fruit you can grow at home.

16/05/2025

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13 min
15/10/2025

'Americanness' across two cultures and 70 years

The stories in Carol Roh Spalding's collection Waiting for Mr. Kim span more than 70 years and four generations of a Korean-American family.

15/10/2025

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48 min
14/07/2023

Can I offer you a cucurbit of advice?

Cucumbers and summer squash can thrive! Here's how

14/07/2023

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14/04/2023

Building a healthy garden from the ground up

If you want healthy plants, you need healthy soil.

14/04/2023

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08/04/2023

Loosening tattoo artist requirements, encouraging biogas pipelines, taxing glass pipes, and a much bigger version of the governor’s education bill

Among the policy bills advancing this year include one adding a 40% tax to glass or metal pipes supporters say are used to smoke dangerous drugs. There is also a bill making it easier for gas pipelines to be built from farms with anaerobic digesters converting manure to a form of natural gas. And the governor’s education bill about gender identity is now much bigger after the House of Representatives adds an amendment containing sections from many non-controversial bills that have already passed.

08/04/2023

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21/01/2023

Looking back at 20th century trailblazing legislator Minnette Doderer

Minnette Doderer began her three and a half decades of public service as a legislator in the mid 1960s. She also ran twice for lieutenant governor. In the 1970s and 1980s, she spoke with reporters in eastern Iowa. These rare recordings were recently found in Iowa Public Radio’s storage and used in the 2022 podcast series From the Archives. This Under the Golden Dome episode features an episode from that series. Doderer discusses many topics including public money funding private schools, abortion, and how women politicians in the 20th century were often unfairly treated.

21/01/2023

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06/11/2025

How the Meskwaki People reclaimed their homeland

The book Red Earth Nation: a History of the Meskwaki Settlement tells that story. On this Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe speaks with Meskwaki tribal historian Johnathan Buffalo and author Eric Steven Zimmer.

06/11/2025

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47 min
11/11/2025

Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal talks government shutdown, migration and other economic news

In this extended edition of River to River, Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal joins Ben Kieffer for a wide-ranging conversation on the U.S. economy and Ryssdal's career.

11/11/2025

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1h 12m

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