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I've known Ed Tibbetts for nearly 30 years, since the day I started working for a newspaper that was not the Quad City Times and we began talking about reporting and Iowa and Illinois politics during the lulls of activity of covering public meetings and political rallies. The fact that a newspaper isn't employing him at the moment says more about them than Ed. If you want to know about the Quad Cities and Iowa and Illinois politics, subscribe to Ed.
The politics and culture of Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond.
Robert Leonard is one of the best journalists in the game out in central Iowa. He's semi-retired now, but still one of the best Iowa writers out there on Substack. I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to get together when I lived near his neck of the woods.