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President Donald Trump is making his first visit to Illinois since becoming president, making a stop in Granite City on Thursday where he is expected to tout the reopening of a U.S. Steel Corp. mill. The White House announced Sunday night Trump will swing through Granite City, in southern Illinois near St. Louis and Dubuque, Iowa, on Thursday. The Trump administration has been highlighting U.S. Steel’s Granite City mill as a trade war success story even as the tariffs have sparked concerns in other sectors, with alarms sounded by Illinois farmers whose main crop is soybeans. The visit will have...

ROLLING DOWN THE RIVER!!!!!!! Donald Trump will be in Iowa from January 30 through the 1st of February. Here is his itinerary: January 30: Dubuque Regional Airport 11000 Airport Road Dubuque, IA 52003 11:00 a.m.: Doors Open 1:00 p.m.: Event Begins Clinton Clinton Middle School 1350 14th Street, NW Clinton, IA 52732 1:30 p.m.: Doors Open 3:30 p.m.: Event Begins Davenport Adler Theatre 136 East 3rd Street Davenport, IA 52801 4:30 p.m.: Doors Open 6:30 p.m.: Event Begins Today's Trivia: 1. Name Dubuque's favorite son, an actor who appeared in 100s of films, plays and tv shows. In films most...

What state is Dubuque in? If you answered Chicago, you are correct. Chicago's no state, you say? Don't be so 18th century - so "constitutional." Dubuque is in Chicago, which is now a kind of state. Or to put it differently, the Obama administration is in the process of replacing our entire system of government — made up of nested local, state, and national, levels — with a regional framework. In Obama's new dispensation, suburbs, small towns, and modest-sized cities like Dubuque will be turned into subordinate satellites of regional mega-cities like Chicago, regardless of which state these local governments...

On Tuesday Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a press conference during a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa. During the press conference Trump was heckled and interrupted by Univision reporter, Jorge Ramos Jorge Ramos refused to wait his turn and refused to quit talking. Trump had Ramos escorted from the room for his outburst. Now we know that Ramos had been stalking Trump for weeks. He even spoke about “hunting” Trump in an earlier interview.

Jorge Ramos is the top news anchor at Univision and one of the most recognizable faces of the Latino community. On August 25, at a Donald Trump press conference in Dubuque, Iowa he was physically removed after asking tough questions on immigration to the presidential hopeful. Trump ordered him out after exclaiming "Go back to Univision". Once outside the conference room, one of Trump's supporters told Ramos: "It's not about you. Get out of my country! Get out! It's not about you." Those words translated Trump's true meaning. He has unleashed a campaign of hatred against the Latino community starting...

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UPDATE Doors have opened at Grand River Center for Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again Rally,” where seats are filling up.

As anyone who has grown up around snow knows, part of the fun of sledding is the risk of soaring off a jump or careening around a tree. But faced with the potential bill from sledding injuries, some cities have opted to close hills rather than risk large liability claims. No one tracks how many cities have banned or limited sledding, but the list grows every year. One of the latest is in Dubuque, Iowa, where the City Council is moving ahead with a plan to ban sledding in all but two of its 50 parks. […] A study by...

Paul Ryan’s latest swing through the state of Iowa has begun in two communities where the Republican nominee for Vice President has family ties. On Monday, Ryan rallied Republicans at his grandfather’s alma mater, Loras College, in Dubuque. On Tuesday, Ryan begins his day in Clinton, where his mother-in-law was born. The bus tour of Mississippi River towns continues through Muscatine before it concludes in Burlington Tuesday evening. Republicans packed the Loras College field house on Monday evening to see Ryan, and even more stood outside because the building was over capacity. Ryan was greeted with thunderous applause and cheers...

DUBUQUE, Iowa - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told a noisy, sign-waving crowd in Dubuque on Monday that Democrat Barack Obama's economic plans are "phony" proposals that will destroy American jobs. Palin told about 5,000 people that voters are getting a closer look at Obama's economic plan and don't like what they see. She pointed to what she called an independent analysis of the plan that indicated it would cost 6 million jobs. "Now is the worst possible time to even consider taking more from you and from our small businesses," Palin said. "Raising taxes at this time makes...

www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass_bd15jul15,1,3978402.column chicagotribune.com This officer's sentence is hogwash John Kass July 15, 2007 In an Iowa criminal case that smells of a thousand hogs, a young Chicago police officer was sentenced last week to 5 years in prison for defending himself against an attack by two large, drunken men, even though he testified that he repeatedly tried avoiding a fight. There is a U.S. Department of Justice office in Iowa. What is happening to Chicago police officer Michael Mette bears some serious federal inquiry. Dubuque District Court Judge Monica Ackley agrees Mette was attacked, he tried to avoid conflict, two large...

Hey Senator Kerry. I know you must have been embarassed by the revelation that you ate on the bus at your last stop. We saw that you really didn't eat at Wendy's. I mean, everyone thought you were eating at Wendy's, but then you had some take out at some fancy place uptown so you and missus wouldn't have to eat all that "flyover country" garbage that the little people call food. I know that a wealthy "Uber" class person such as yourself wants to really eat the way you are used to. So, as a service to your campaign,...

OPINION -- On Saturday, pro-abortion senator and presidential candidate John Kerry incredibly recited the John 3:16 of the pro-life movement, “I believe life does begin at conception.” Kerry, under increasing pressure by Catholics to either denounce abortion or excommunicate himself, was explaining to the Dubuque Telegraph Herald how he could vote pro-abortion as a U.S. senator and still receive communion on Sundays. Kerry’s first action causes his second to be in direct violation of Catholic teaching. “I oppose abortion, personally. I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception,” said Kerry. “But I can’t take my Catholic belief,...

DUBUQUE, Iowa -- There are no fewer than 11 Roman Catholic churches in this picturesque Mississippi River town of about 60,000 people, a place some locals call "little Rome" in reference to its religious leanings and hilltop construction. So on the face of it, this heavily blue-collar city may have seemed a curious place for President Bush to target late last week in his first official campaign tour in the Midwest battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin--states he narrowly lost in 2000. The city's strong Catholic and Democratic traditions--which include a Kennedy Mall, John F. Kennedy Drive and Kennedy Elementary...

DUBUQUE, Iowa, May 7 — Tears were flowing on "Live With Regis & Kelly" on Friday as a woman was introduced to the man whose life her dead son's heart had saved. But the emotional moment was abruptly halted on Channel 9 here by breaking news. It was not for Donald H. Rumsfeld's Congressional appearance (that would come later) or the severe storms brewing to the southwest. It was, rather, for Air Force One's approach, which the news camera followed as if it was that of the space shuttle. "You can see a smooth landing at the Dubuque Regional Airport,"...

Yup. Just LOVES IT..... That's why he's TRULY a "Man of the People"...

<p>The Dubuque County attorney is questioning the Oelwein Police Department's decision to post pictures of convicted drug offenders on the department's Web site.</p> <p>"I'm not sure what the purpose would be other than to add public humiliation to the punishment they're already receiving," Dubuque County Attorney Fred McCar said.</p>