“It’s football Saturday, the election is over!” shouts a petite woman as she hostilely stands from her bar stool, leaving the indoor smoke room. She was listening in on the conversation but what ignited her irritation to leave remains mysterious. The room, along with the rest of the building, is paneled with wood and seems […]
Student journalists Keaton Walkowski, Madison Goldbeck and Brandon Anderegg stop in Iowa to record a podcast and reflect on the people they have met and the lessons they have learned interviewing voters form the 2016 election.
Two older men sit in yellow rustic chairs surrounding a circular wooden table while eating their breakfast at Mabel’s Hwy 44 Bar & Grill. It’s a green paneled building set on the outskirts of town in which people enjoy fishing and hunting. It’s where Ron Gerard, 60, and Bruce Mielke found themselves before they headed […]