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Our one of those shiny new magnets. Thank you so much. Art Cullen is a reporter and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times, a twice-weekly county paper with a circulation of 3,330. It has a staff of about

10, including the recipes editor.

Its top advertiser is Builders' sharpening and service,

and it just won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing,

taking on three sets of county commissioners and big agriculture in one fell swoop.

Here's a taste of Cullen's poison pen aimed at county politicians

he learned we're letting ag lobbyists bankrolled the county's defense of a lawsuit demanding

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