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Author Archives: Paul Deaton
What Work Will We Do?
Conventional wisdom is there is a worker shortage in Iowa. “Companies are really at a tipping point with respect to their workforce,” Iowa Business Council Executive Director Joe Murphy said in an interview with Perry Beeman of Iowa Capitol Dispatch. … Continue reading
Liz Mathis Announces For U.S. House
Posted in 2022 Election campaign
Tagged #IA01, 2022 Election campaign, Liz Mathis
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Loebsack Endorses Finkenauer For U.S. Senate
Abby Finkenauer Earns Endorsement of Congressman Dave Loebsack Cedar Rapids — Yesterday Abby Finkenauer, candidate for U.S. Senate, was endorsed by former Congressman Dave Loebsack. “Abby is one of the hardest workers I have ever seen, and I don’t say … Continue reading
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Tagged #iasen, 2022 Election campaign, Abby Finkenauer, dave loebsack, U.S. Senate race
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Reasons To Source Food Locally
The author’s garden yield on Saturday, July 24, 2021. Despite near drought conditions most of this growing season, our garden is producing the best crop I can remember. Our ability to irrigate is most of that. I’m also becoming a … Continue reading
Laundering Face Masks–Again
Laundering home sewn face masks is back on the to-do list. It looks like we’ll need them. On Monday I wrote we are not really taming the coronavirus in Iowa or in the United States as a whole. Too many … Continue reading
Posted in Public Health
Tagged Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, Covid-19 Vaccines, public health, Vaccine hesitancy
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EXTRA! Finkenauer Announces For U.S. Senate
Abby Finkenauer for U.S. Senate announcement video Abby Finkenauer Announces Campaign for U.S. Senate: Finkenauer Promises to Take Blue-Collar Values to Washington To Fight For Iowa Families Cedar Rapids, Iowa (July 22, 2021) — Today, Abby Finkenauer, the daughter of … Continue reading
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Miller-Meeks: Divisive Blabbermouth
Mariannette Miller-Meeks ran a successful fourth campaign for congress and now represents Iowa’s Second Congressional District. People argue with that statement, saying they stopped counting the votes, yet it is accurate. Her first three campaigns (2008, 2010 and 2014) were … Continue reading
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Tagged #IA02, #iapolitics, Jim Leach, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Miller-Meeks, politics, Rep. Dave Loebsack, republican values
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Iowa’s 2022 Campaigns Haven’t Truly Started
The deputy chief of staff to Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks was recently bragging on Twitter, “When you got $1.17 million in the bank and no democrat opponent.” With it he posted an image of an apparently happy, but not smiling congresswoman. … Continue reading
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Shrinking The Tax Gap
Last Wednesday, I participated in an online briefing with former IRS Commissioners Fred Goldberg Jr. and Charles Rossotti on modernizing the IRS and shrinking the tax gap. Goldberg was appointed as IRS Commissioner by President George H.W. Bush in 1989 … Continue reading
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Summer Community Parades Are Back Despite Pandemic
Most people along the parade route reacted positively to the Johnson County Democrats entry in the Solon Beef Days Parade on July 17. All over the state, parades have re-emerged as a social activity after missing last summer because of … Continue reading
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Tagged community, community action, coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, Covid-19 Vaccines, Iowa politics, parades, politics, Vaccine hesitancy
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