Man charged in Tibbetts' death worked at Iowa farm linked to prominent Republican

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51. While both parties hurl blame at each other about immigration and hiring practices

the larger reality is that in this country, even in these so-called idyllic rural areas, a woman is not safe to go jogging by herself at night, or even in the day, for that matter. This is particularly true if she likes to do the same route at the same time each day.

It's a problem I've struggled with for many years. I liked to go running at night in my home town (it was a good time for me, I worked all day, I'm a night owl, it helped me sleep, it was the time my body liked to go for a run). I had to balance all those things against the fear of getting attacked. I eventually worked out a route (I was in a quiet neighborhood) where I figured I was close enough to a house of someone I knew, or at least someone my family knew, so that if there was a problem I could run up to someone's front porch for safety.

I don't like having to live this way and at some point, we need to move past the politics of this and figure out a way for women to live their lives as they choose, even if that includes going for a run at night.