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James Q. Lynch
I’ve been covering Iowa news for more than four decades. As the politics and state government reporter for The Gazette since 2000, I’ve covered the Iowa Legislature and state politics, as well as Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. I also host reporters from around the state in a weekly discussion of political developments on the On Iowa Politics podcast. I’m a regular panelist on Iowa Public Television’s weekly “Iowa Press” public affairs program and an enthusiastic participant in The Gazette’s Pints and Politics discussion of, what else, politics.
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Latest Articles by James Q. Lynch
Agriculture Nov. 17, 2016 2:01 pm3226d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Water quality advocates who see little progress toward reducing nitrate and phosphorous pollution in the Mississippi River …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 14, 2016 8:27 pm3229d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Saying he’s still ‘fired up and ready to go,” President Barack Obama told supporters Monday they need …
News Nov. 11, 2016 2:27 pm3232d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – With two judges from his home state on President-Elect Donald Trump’s list of possible nominees, Senate Judiciary …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 10, 2016 4:01 pm3233d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – He didn’t get their first vote, but president-elect Donald Trump is going to get the final votes …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 11, 2016 10:45 am3232d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Sen. Joni Ernst is elated by the outcome of the presidential election and has no regrets about …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 10, 2016 10:59 am3233d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Fame is fleeting. Just ask Sen. Chuck Grassley. A day after the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman was …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 8, 2016 4:21 pm3235d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar County is a little bit country and a little bit, well, metropolitan, Dawn Smith said. ‘You …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 7, 2016 3:12 pm3236d ago
MARION – Donald Trump wasn’t Rick Santorum’s first choice for the Republican presidential nomination. ‘I was for somebody else,” the …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 7, 2016 6:00 am3237d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — As counterintuitive as it might sound, voting should be a refuge from the political campaign. ‘The polls …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 4, 2016 4:20 pm3239d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – In making their closing arguments, both major party candidates for an Iowa U.S. Senate seat talk about …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 3, 2016 5:26 pm3240d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine called Rudy Giuliani’s comparison of Hillary and Bill Clinton to a …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 3, 2016 1:01 pm3240d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Call her the Chicago Cubs of Iowa’s U.S. Senate race, Patty Judge says. ‘Well, they won last …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 2, 2016 11:12 pm3241d ago
IOWA CITY – In the middle of Game 7 of the World Series, Sen. Tim Kaine visited an Iowa City …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 2, 2016 10:07 pm3241d ago
HIAWATHA – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday compared Hillary Clinton to the crime families he prosecuted …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 3, 2016 2:08 pm3240d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A new poll of the U.S. House 1st District race shows GOP Rep. Rod Blum leading Democratic …