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Tony Leys
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Des Moines Register health-care reporter. Iowa journalist since 1988. @AHCJ board member. Politics moonlighter. Covering Cory Booker's Iowa caucus campaign.
Jul 16, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I’m reading this @loganhill33 piece, thinking about a reader’s letter that has haunted me for years. wapo.st/floridaman I was the Des Moines Register’s state editor in the 1990s, overseeing five bureaus and dozens of stringers. I was a huge fan of the “stupid criminal” genre of stories...