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Author Archives: Paul Deaton
Conversations With Deidre DeJear
On Monday, July 12, Deidre DeJear of Des Moines announced a series of “Conversation Tour Events” as she explores a run for Iowa governor in 2022. The following is from DeJear’s campaign website: As a small business owner and entrepreneur, … Continue reading
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Tagged Deidre DeJear, Iowa governor, Iowa governor's race, Iowa politics
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Earthrise Studio Is Here
I met Finn Harries at the May 2015 Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He and his identical twin brother Jack had turned their attention, and that of their large YouTube following, to work on the climate … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Act On Climate, Climate Action, climate change, Climate Reality Leadership Training, Earthrise Studio, environment
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Coming in September: Iowa Redistricting
Like most Iowa political activists, I’ve been looking forward to new political districts to be created during the decennial, non-partisan redistricting process. Republican legislators repeatedly asserted they wouldn’t change the law and didn’t. While door-knocking in Wilton during the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Deidre DeJear, Iowa politics, Iowa redistricting, redistricting
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Iowa’s Senators and Climate Change
In March I wrote my U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst about the climate crisis as follows: I hope you will support the efforts of the Biden administration to act to mitigate the effects of our changing climate. Naturally … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley, Climate Change, Joni Ernst
Tagged Chuck Grassley, climate change, climate crisis, environment, joni ernst, Political Advocacy
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Masking In The United States
I recently flew to Florida to help someone move to the Midwest, my first non-local trip since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. We convoyed from central Florida to Chicago, following major interstate … Continue reading
Posted in Public Health
Tagged coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, living in society, masking, public health
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The Climate Crisis Is Accelerating – Now What?
What can we do when confronted with the climate crisis? The answer is everything. If climate change is developing faster than human solutions, what then? During the last few months we have been assaulted with news about the climate crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change
Tagged al gore, Bill McKibben, climate change, Farhad Manjoo, Julia K. Steinberger
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There’s A Reason Republicans Call It ‘Communist China’
“The unprecedented global challenges that the United States faces today—climate change, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, massive economic inequality, terrorism, corruption, authoritarianism—are shared global challenges. They cannot be solved by any one country acting alone. They require increased international cooperation—including with China, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs
Tagged Bernie Sanders, China, Foreign Affairs, Trade, trade war with china
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A World Without Nuclear Weapons
While it got scant notice in the U.S. press, the joint statement after the Geneva, Switzerland meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin was significant: We, President of the United States of America Joseph R. Biden and … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Disarmament
Tagged Back from the Brink, Biden, nuclear abolition, nuclear disarmament, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Putin
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High Summer In Iowa
One of the highlights of the 2021 political summer will be distribution of the U.S. Census data and the decennial re-districting. The Iowa legislature is expected to convene a special session for that purpose in August. In 2011 only two … Continue reading
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Dry Spring In Iowa
It is abnormally dry in our part of Iowa. Just as we are needing rain, we are not getting it. A home gardener can irrigate new trees, fruits and vegetables, but the massive scale required to hydrate Iowa’s main commodity … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change
Tagged Act On Climate, Climate Action, climate change, drought, Ernst, Grassley
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