New Year’s Eve in…Des Moines?

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  12.03.07 | 12:47 PM ET

Maybe it’s time to give the Iowa City—long pilloried by coastal types as the capital of Midwest bland—a second look. New York Times political correspondent Adam Nagourney reports that there’s a lot happening in the city’s East Village neighborhood. So much so, in fact, that he’s actually looking forward to spending New Year’s Eve there for the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus.

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Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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