CANDIDATE CONLIN: According to aids, Roxanne Conlin will make her run for the U.S. Senate official next week
Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin is set to make it official. Aids say she will file papers with the Federal Elections Commission next week in a run for the U.S. Senate.

Conlin announced last week she would likely seek the seat of five-term Republican senator Charles Grassley. Conlin is a longtime Democratic activist and a former gubernatorial candidate.