Monthly Archives: March 2009

SEIU To Hold Event Prior To  White House Health Care Summit Monday, March 23rd In Des Moines On Monday, March 23, 2009 the Obama White House and Iowa's elected officials will lead one of only five national forums to discuss … Continue reading →

Keith Olbermann Calls For Media Reform In Special Comment As regular readers know, BFIA is committed to doing our part to help reform the media, currently on life support due in part to the same deregulation practices that have ruined … Continue reading →

Donald Kaul: Our Health Care System Is A National Disgrace “For more than 25 years he was a fixture in Iowa, commenting on the public policy foibles of the day as well as Iowa’s cultural peculiarities. Indeed he helped give … Continue reading →

U.S. Election System Still Broken The New York Times EditorialIn last year’s presidential election, as many as three million registered voters were not allowed to cast ballots and millions more chose not to because of extremely long lines and other … Continue reading →

Save The Iowa River Organicgreenandnatural.com by Joe Hennager The following is an excerpt, but we highly recommend heading over to Organicgreenandnatural.com to read the whole article and to find out why there is hope and what citizens can do.  And … Continue reading →

Health Care Reform Update: Senator Tom Harkin Lends a Hand for Health Care by Alta Price On Saturday, March 14, 2009, Senator Tom Harkin spoke at St. Ambrose University on how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (economic stimulus package) … Continue reading →

WHO-Radio's Jan Mickelson And Jerome Corsi Team Up To Spread Obama Disinformation  Iowa IndependentBy Jason Hancock[Note from BFIA:  The problem is, people actually believe this stuff…]Conspiracy theories were the order of the day for conservative radio host Jan Mickelson Wednesday … Continue reading →

The Iowa White House Forum on Health Reform, Des Moines, Iowa, March 23, 2009 Iowa Department of Public Health The Iowa White House Forum on Health Reform will bring together Iowans who have a stake in our health care system … Continue reading →

GOP Has Reason To Fear Fairness Doctrine Don't Fear Fairness Doctrine by Nicholas JohnsonBlog for Iowa is committed to reform of the broken media and in that spirit, we've recently posted a fair amount of our own commentary as well … Continue reading →

Harkin, Grassley and Loebsack Can Help Schools Opt For Artificial Hormone-Free Milk by Caitlin Seeley Got Milk?  Got *Safe* Milk? While the ads with celebrities sporting milk mustaches would have us believe that all milk is created equal, it is … Continue reading →