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Iowa City News Links: Heroin use on the Rise in Eastern Iowa? Also, Social Conservatives Ponder a Joint Endorsement

Thanksgiving vacation is over. Now it's back to the grind!

As always, I'll start with links to stories on this site, but then I'll venture out into the world of other publications. Feel free to suggest links to stories that I might have missed and I can add them during the day.

From Iowa City Patch

American Muslims are a growing voting demographic, but ? IowaWatch.org investigates.

It's Cyber Monday! We have a asking you how much you plan on shopping today.

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It's the season of shopping, but also should be the season of giving. Our Parent Talk this week is asking parents how they teach their children to .

Meet , two puppy brothers looking for a good home.

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From Other Sites

Trish Mehaffey of the Gazette writes that heroin is making a big comeback in Eastern iowa.

Alesha L. Crews of the Press-Citizen has an article about two successful City High debaters.

Tara Bannow of the Press-Citizen writes that Cyber Monday is not an easy sell for local businesses.

Eric Moore of the Daily Iowan writes that local businesses nontheless are trying to increase local shopping this holiday season.

Jason Noble of the Des Moines Register has a quick run down on what programs candidates say they would cut from government to reduce spending.

Noble also writes that social conservatives in Iowa are pondering a joint endorsement of a not-Romney candidate, largely due to the fact no support seems to be coalescing around one not-Romney candidate at this time. However, it remains to be seen if such an endorsement will even happen.

A new Herman Cain mailer in Iowa promotes Cain as a Tea Party champion who, as a bonus, can win black votes as well.

That is one big cabbage.

Daily Links Excerpt (of the Day)

The invitations for the first meeting came from Iowa Family Leader President Chuck Hurley. Inspiring the meeting, according to another attendee, was dismay over fragmentation in the support for conservative candidates and frustration that a candidate they see as more moderate, Mitt Romney, might be well-positioned to win the Jan. 3 caucuses.

Indeed, the Republican race has been notably fluid in recent months, with conservative candidates surging and then falling, while Romney has remained entrenched near the top of the polls. No single candidate has yet won over social conservatives opposed to same-sex marriage and abortion in the manner that 2008 caucus winner Mike Huckabee did.


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