Monthly Archives: April 2009

President Obama Returns to Iowa for Earth Day… and More Earth Day Events Newton Daily News President Obama Returns to Iowa for Earth Day President Barack Obama will be taking a tour of Trinity Structural Towers in Newton on Wednesday … Continue reading →

Watch Poisoned Waters on PBS Frontline, Then Join Save The Iowa River (STIR) waterkeeper.org (Dr. Alta Price's weekly Health Care Reform Update, normally seen here on Tuesdays will run tomorrow, then return to the regular Tuesday slot next week.  Please … Continue reading →

Victory for Localism!  Hope For Iowa Radio Mediaweek.com Note from BFIA:  Media reform activists are already celebrating, but BFIA would like to say to progressives everywhere:  This is really big news.  For background information as to why Iowa progressives should … Continue reading →

Obama Derangement Syndrome Epidemic on Conservative Airwaves Media Matters for America REPORT: Emerging Culture of Paranoia As regular readers know, BFIA has posted quite a bit on the conservative media (Right Wing Media & the Politics of Vitriol, 'Shock Jocks' … Continue reading →

Is Help On The Way For Iowa's Waterways?  Waste & Wastewater News  The international news resource for industrial & municipal water professionalsLisa Jackson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, asserted at a forum for the PBS Frontline documentary Poisoned Waters, that … Continue reading →

Stop Them From Putting Manure in Iowa's Waters:  Kill SF 432 Kill SF 432 – Stand up for the common good –  iowacci.org  We need you to take action one more time to stop Senate File 432 – the “No … Continue reading →

The Facts About Tax Reform In Iowa by Mike Owen Iowa needs to take its fiscal policy off autopilot. This will make taxes more fair to all Iowans, and give them and their elected officials better control of it. Three … Continue reading →

Health Care Reform Update: People Powered Iowa! by Alta L. Price, M.D. and Howard Dean, M.D. Alta Price is a physician practicing Pathology in Davenport, Iowa. One of the original Deaniacs, she stays involved with Democracy for America, Iowa, and … Continue reading →

Another Kind of Factory Farm in Iowa: Let State Inspectors Into Puppy Mills Blog for Iowa would like to call your attention to yesterday's post, an article in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, as background for today's BFIA … Continue reading →

Animal Rights in Iowa:  Do Ethical Obligations Transcend Our Species? The New York TimesBy Nicholas D. Kristof One of the historical election landmarks last year had nothing to do with race or the presidency. Rather, it had to do with … Continue reading →