Monthly Archives: February 2009

Dean for Daschle: Ask Your Congressman To Support Howard Dean for HHS

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Dean For Daschle:  Ask Your Congressman To Support Howard Dean for Health and Human Services Secretary Rutland Herald.com by Louis PorterSeveral members of Congress have encouraged President Barack Obama to consider former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to be the secretary … Continue reading →

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DFA Training Academy Coming to Des Moines Feb.28-March 1

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Trish Nelson

DFA Training Academy Coming to Des Moines Feb. 28-March 1 Register Today For the Training! Democracy for America Training AcademyFebruary 28-March 1, 2009DMACC Urban/Des Moines Campus Register on this site (left sidebar) or go here  The DFIA group in 2005 … Continue reading →

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Eighty-Seven Iowa Towns Need Clean Water Infrastructure Funding

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Eighty-Seven Iowa Towns Need Clean Water Infrastructure Funding Bleeding Heartland.comIowaIndependent.comIaenvironment.orgBleeding Heartland and Iowa Independent reported earlier this week that “the Iowa Environmental Council is encouraging U.S. lawmakers to increase clean water infrastructure funding in the economic stimulus plan, now under … Continue reading →

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One Iowan’s Inaugural Story: A Narrow Escape From The Purple Tunnel of Doom

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Reprinted with permission from The Prairie Progressive by Rusty Martin Last November, I called my son Robert, a college student in Minnesota, and demanded that he travel to the Inauguration with me.  He had worked fulltime for Obama in Iowa. … Continue reading →

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Big Media: Too Big Not To Fail

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Big Media:  Too Big Not To Fail StopBigMedia.comby Josh StearnsAbout five months ago, when the first of the big national banks began to buckle under their own weight, fanning the flames of the already smoldering economic crisis, a new idiom … Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Howard Dean for HHS

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Trish Nelson

UPDATE:  Howard Dean for HHS Contact the White House today to support Howard Dean for Health and Human Services.  White House switchboard:  202-456-1414FAX:  202-456-2461 Join this HD for HHS Facebook group.  They are now up to 1,004 members. Join this … Continue reading →

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Ryan J. Davis: Howard Dean For HHS

Posted on February 4, 2009 by bfialindathieman

Ryan J. Davis: Howard Dean For HHS Ryan J. Davis, Huffington PostTom Daschle's withdrawal leaves an opening at Health and Human Services. Howard Dean is the man for that job.Dean isn't given enough credit for his expert chairmanship of the … Continue reading →

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Right Wing Media and the Politics of Vitriol

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Columbia Journalism Review   Vitriol.  2. caustic or hostile speech, criticism, or feeling.Most progressives I know pay little attention to conservative talk radio.  We don’t listen to it, therefore, it is easy enough to put it out of our minds … Continue reading →

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