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Kevin Featherly

Kevin Featherly started his career at newspapers in California and Minnesota. In 1996, he helped launch Channel 4000 at WCCO-TV and WCCO Radio in Minneapolis, and Channel 2000 at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles—two groundbreaking, broadcaster-based news websites. He became managing editor at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive’s tech-news wire, Newsbytes, then went full-time to freelance, splitting his time between journalism and corporate communications. He joined the Minnesota Capitol press corps in 2016 and formed his own short-lived online political newsletter, Session-Law.com, in 2021. He is author of RTNDA’s Guide to Building a Newsroom Website (1998) and was a principal contributor to Sage Publications’ The Encyclopedia of New Media (2003). Now semi-retired, he is an occasional Twin Cities-based freelance writer.

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Rep. Zach Nunn smiles and points into the crowd while standing at a podium.

Zach Nunn’s China record tested in Iowa’s 3rd District race

By Kevin Featherly

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Voting & Elections

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November 3, 2026

Democratic state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott is attacking him on that same issue in Tuesday’s election in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers Des Moines and southern Iowa. Cook Political Report rates the race a toss-up. Her campaign calls him “weak on China.”