Archives for March 31, 2019

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March 31, 2019 at 06:08AM

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Chris Petersen, a third-generation hog farmer who says “I bleed rural” and tears up at the fate of family and friends, has found a way to keep his small holding going, and avoid the exodus that so many are making. His grown son and daughter have, too.

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March 31, 2019 at 06:00AM

Thanks to US Attorney General William Barr’s “summary” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump and most of the Republican Party can implant the idea in the mind of much of the public that Trump did nothing wrong.

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March 31, 2019 at 05:21AM