On Iowa Politics Podcast: Trooper-gate, a contest in Iowa’s 2nd district, and mask madness

The Gazette

Aug. 27, 2021 4:04 pm

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Trooper-gate, a contest in Iowa’s 2nd district, and mask madness

On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day's deadlines have been met.

This week’s show is hosted by The Gazette’s James Lynch and features Tom Barton of the Quad-City Times, and Gazette Opinion Editor Todd Dorman.

The show was produced by Stephen M. Colbert, and the music heard on the podcast is courtesy of Copperhead and Jeremy Jacobs.

Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) photo for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' July 28, 2021 news conference about the deployment of Iowa State Patrol troopers to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas earlier this month. All the photos are from the Del Rio area and the officers pictured are from DPS. The river is the Rio Grande. (Iowa Governor's Office photo)