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🌽Jennifer Konfrst on building power in the minority - Cornhole Champions #45
Toss some bags about Iowa's 3rd Congressional District, Susan B. Anthony's mobilization for Nunn, and what getting things done looks like when you lack…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
20:54
🌽 Art Cullen: How big Ag broke Iowa... and what comes next - Cornhole Champions #44
Toss some bags about Iowa’s petrochemical farm economy… the hollowing out of our small towns… And the politics of pollution and power…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
46:26
🌽 What could Iowa do to reverse high cancer rates? (w/ State Rep. Austin Baeth) - Cornhole Champions #43
Toss some bags at Iowa's cancer emergency... Why $20,000 for radon testing disappeared in two months... And how special interests are hurting Iowans...
 • Zachary Oren Smith
22:11
📻 Different states, different justice (w/ Sarah Hedlund and Diana Mondragon) - Cornhole Champions
Toss some bags with two survivors who discovered that seeking accountability for the same abuser looked completely different because of where they…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
25:35
📻 A $400,000 scandal: How research on Iowa's ag pollution got buried (w/ Carey Gillam) - Cornhole Champions #41
Toss some bags at Iowa's cancer crisis cover-up… Trump's EPA reversing water protections… And why farmers are fighting back on their own…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
21:08
📻 Newsroom to classroom: Ty Rushing on teaching journalism - Cornhole Champions #40
Toss some bags with a pioneering Iowa journalist about trading the editor's desk for the professor's podium and why being a beginner again might be the…
 • Zachary Oren Smith
29:52
🌽 What Charlie Kirk's killing brought to Iowa - Cornhole Champions #39
Toss some bags at city-school elections this fall... Iowa's response to Kirk's assassination... And what about Gov. Kim Reynolds' emails?!
 • Zachary Oren Smith
46:27
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