A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence. A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence. A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence. A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.