This story was entirely dumb luck (stopping at a Marion Kum & Go that was in the process of becoming not-a-Kum-&-Go) followed by the usual “This data set has to exist somewhere. It doesn’t? Guess I have to find out myself.”
That, dear reader, is how I scooped the Des Moines Register and how my work appeared in the print paper (Sept. 8) for the first time since I left there.
(Also the Dickinson County News. Hi there! Thanks for reading!)