On Midwest Week, a campaign update for Iowa - the fight over absentee ballot applications and the key race for the US Senate.
Herb Trix's guest in Erin Murphy, Lee Enterprises bureau chief in Des Moines, and his work appears here in the Quad City Times and Muscatine Journal.
You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.