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Peter Wagner

Aug 1, 2015

One of the best pieces of advice offered me when my wife, Connie, and I started The N’West Iowa REVIEW came from the editor of the newspaper where we printed: “You need to write a weekly column,” he told me, “You need to let your readers know who you are and what you believe.”

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