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Several readers called to talk this week about their frustrations with the state child protection system. They’d read Wednesday’s column …
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Incoming Iowa House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, and state Reps. Renee Schulte, R-Cedar Rapids and Nick Wagner, R-Marion, met with …
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