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FORT DODGE, Iowa — A hearing that started Tuesday to determine whether Summit Carbon Solutions should get a permit to build a sprawling carbon dioxide pipeline in Iowa will last

"When powerful people go after journalists and news outlets, they go after everyone. They go after publications’ readers."

The problem — as journalists across the States Newsroom network told us — is that attacks on a free and fair press are not rare at all.

After Kansas Reflector reported on the ignominious and unconstitutional raid of the Marion County Record on Aug. 11, news outlets and commentators from across Kansas and the nation followed suit

Deanna Mahoney was like countless Iowa women through the years. She nurtured three children. She worked outside the home to supplement the family income. She loved bowling and mushroom hunting.

Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists have had to defy threats across the U.S., opinion writer notes.

The problem — as journalists across the States Newsroom network told us is — that attacks on a free and fair press are not rare at all.

”When powerful people go after journalists and news outlets, they go after everyone. … Let’s look at outrages big and small from across the United States,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

After the Kansas Reflector reported on the raid of the Marion County Record, editors from other outlets shared similar stories.

Seven months after the Iowa Legislature passed Gov. Kim Reynolds’ controversial Students First Act to establish education savings accounts (ESAs) allowing Iow