Art Cullen

Editorials: Silencing the press - Storm Lake Times Pilot Leading legislators bent on hobbling Iowa’s community newspapers so they can keep the public in the dark are lurching forward. A bill to eliminate public notices from newspapers cleared the Senate …

Here’s an editorial about the American Taliban trying to starve out journalism and keep the public in the dark.
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How Agricultural Concerns Are Shifting Iowa’s Political Landscape Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen says agricultural issues like water pollution and cancer risk could sway the midterm elections.

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Iowa Republicans raise property taxes more than a socialist - Storm Lake Times Pilot That damn socialist mayor out in New York threatened to hike property taxes by 9.5% unless he can ram through a wealth tax. Wait a New York minute: Property taxes on our humble metal shed along …

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Iowa Republicans raise property taxes more than a socialist That damn socialist mayor out in New York threatened to hike property taxes by 9.5% unless he can ram through a wealth tax.

by @artcullen.bsky.social “our property taxes are the eighth-highest in America. That’s affordability, as they say.

“We pay over $7,000 a year in property taxes, and local Boss Hoggs call us an ‘enemy of the people.’ I call them self-serving socialists who think the people are their tax slaves”

If you build it, the Bears won’t come - Storm Lake Times Pilot “The Rock Island Independents had a mighty fine line,” the Republican senators sang at the bar. “I may be right and I may be wrong but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone.” So they pushed …

Here’s my latest column about how disconnected Iowa politicians are.
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Hlas column: Reality of the Hawkeye men’s limitations this season was vivid and vexing vs. Purdue - Hawk Fanatic By Mike Hlas IOWA CITY, Iowa – So now we’ll see how Iowa men’s basketball draws for an 8 p.m. game this coming Tuesday. The guess here isn’t really a guess at all. It won’t be standing room only when ...

My column for HawkFanatic.com: The reality of the Iowa men's basketball team's limitations this season was vivid and vexing in its 78-57 loss to No. 7 Purdue Saturday at Carver. It also shouldn't be surprising. Rome and Gonzaga weren't built in a day. hawkfanatic.com/2026/02/14/h...

Feenstra’s lament: Iowa GOP is no picture of unity - Storm Lake Times Pilot Kim Reynolds has occupied the spot as the most unpopular governor in America nearly as long as Terry Branstad wore a mustache in Terrace Hill. She ran up a whale of a deficit and is skedaddling after ...

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Iowa’s Annual Starve The Schools Mess As usual, Iowa’s Republicans cut the heart out of Iowa’s public schools.  3 minutes:     Former President Biden famously said:  “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I will tell yo…

#Iowa can't vote the Reynolds cabal out soon enough. "The shortfall this year alone amounts to >$1,000 per student- >half a billion statewide..Boone district has to terminate the school orchestra that has given the community great pride for 100 years.And they have to cut 8 FT positions beyond that.”

Trump comes to Iowa for comfort amid the cold - Storm Lake Times Pilot The Sac News shared on Facebook my column from last week lamenting our loss of freedom, which generated a lot of insight in the comments, like “Art Cullen sits down when he pees.” That …

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Art Cullen and Bob Leonard Discuss the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort A recording from Robert Leonard and Art Cullen's live video

@artcullen.bsky.social and @robertleonard.bsky.social Art Cullen and Bob Leonard Discuss the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort #iowa

“Trump campaigned on terrorizing immigrants and restricting trade. Release the clutch on your pearls, this is precisely what America bargained for, and Iowa in particular. Sixty percent say they think he has gone too far. Just where did you think he was going?”

Who could not see the freight train coming for your freedom? - Storm Lake Times Pilot ICE is in Mason City. Breathless reports in Iowa City and West Liberty. Just saw the car in Spencer. Blow the whistles! When will the boot drop on Storm Lake or Denison? Chatter, chatter, …

Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading, and KYA goodbye

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Condition of the State: Code Blue - Storm Lake Times Pilot For the ninth time, Gov. Kim Reynolds told us last week the condition of the state is strong. Except we have the worst economy of the 50 states, and personal income growth was 48th last year, …

Here’s my latest column. Kim Reynolds is a pitiful governor.
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It’s in the mail.

YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities What's Eating Iowa: Episode 2 - Cancer

Pulitzer winner @artcullen.bsky.social on the soaring cancer rates in Iowa. A healthcare and environmental sacrifice zone.

If you want to get quickly blocked, here's how: ask how people with cancer voted. As if that matters to whether or not they deserve compassion.

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FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

Breaking news: The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

What’s Eating Iowa A documentary series, Episode 2, Cancer

Check our Episode 2: Cancer, from our video documentary series “What’s Eating Iowa?”
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Grumpy for good cause - Storm Lake Times Pilot So I’ve become that grumpy old man. Not funny like Walter Matthau. Just grumpy. Curmudgeonly, somebody said. Shrill. I wake up PO’d. It’s hard to stay in good humor when dawn breaks to a …

From the middle of beet-red Iowa, the best description of this nightmare.
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Grumpy for good cause - Storm Lake Times Pilot So I’ve become that grumpy old man. Not funny like Walter Matthau. Just grumpy. Curmudgeonly, somebody said. Shrill. I wake up PO’d. It’s hard to stay in good humor when dawn breaks to a …

Here’s my latest column. Thanks for reading.
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Winning rural voters is not so mysterious - Storm Lake Times Pilot Those with high hopes for a two-party system in Iowa must put their minds and means on reaching rural voters. We had a balanced government a decade ago, before shelled-out river towns went …

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Who pays for the water? - Storm Lake Times Pilot State and local officials in Nebraska are giving Tyson the business after the giant meat packer announced plans to shut down the Lexington beef plant and put 3,200 people out of work. Tyson …

Here’s my latest column: Drinking the well dry for absentee owners

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Pigs and Clover is honored to have a song in the soundtrack of this documentary series. Check it out! Episode 2 will be coming soon.

Sorry but I can’t remember either. Too many grey cells burned along the way.

The collapse in natural gas continues to impress.

Good: cheaper gas-fired heating, should keep a lid on electricity prices, cheaper nitrogen fertilizer.

Bad: more corn and good weather likely means more farm bailouts.

Pray for divided government - Storm Lake Times Pilot 2025 was arduous and is good to have behind us. The fever might have broken. Trump was raving mad on TV last week, almost spitting into the camera. This just days after saying that he doesn’t …

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YouTube video by Robert Leonard An interview with Art Cullen, Pulitzer Prize winner with the Storm Lake Times Pilot.

Well worth listening to @artcullen.bsky.social @robertleonard.bsky.social

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Big Brother is Watching: federal immigration authorities can spy on Storm Lake - Storm Lake Times Pilot AP investigation: Border Patrol cracks into cities’ software

Federal immigration authorities have access to a surveillance camera network in Storm Lake, Tom Cullen reports.

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Soybeans are cheaper today than at the end of October when the "greatest, nobody loves farmers more than me" purchase "agreement" by China was announced.

Another example of don't believe a thing the WH says unless it's about who they want to imprison, deport or murder.

My annual holiday letter: Get with it, Fred - Storm Lake Times Pilot Fred just emailed telling me to do something that is not in the offing this soon after prostate surgery, otherwise I would. And Merry Christmas to you, too, Fred old pal. I have reached an …

Here’s my latest column, my annual holiday letter. Thanks for reading — even you, Fred.
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We were better off - Storm Lake Times Pilot Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Farm subsidies, that is. They distort markets, suppress diversity, and create winners and losers. We can’t get by without …

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