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Author Archives: Paul Deaton
A Bipartisan Strategy to Reverse the Changing Climate
Barbara Schlachter is a founding member of 100 Grannies for a Livable Future, Iowa City Climate Advocates and Citizens Climate Lobby. The following guest opinion appeared in the Nov. 14, 2013 edition of the Iowa City Press Citizen. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environment
Tagged 100 Grannies, Citizens Climate Lobby, climate change, environment, Iowa City Climate Advocates
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Brian Schweitzer to Return to Iowa
DES MOINES– Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer will deliver the featured address at the 2013 Progress Iowa Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m. at the Meadows Events and Conference Center in Altoona. Schweitzer, who completed his second … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community
Tagged 2016 Election, Brian Schweitzer, Progress Iowa
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An Iowan on Syria
Newman Abuissa is an Iowa City resident, an engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation, and was born in Syria. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen and before the Syrian conflict, he made regular trips to Syria with his family … Continue reading
Navigating Change in Health Insurance — Part 3
Like many, I worked hard during the post-911 Bush administration to elect a Democratic president. Investing a lot of myself in politics through the 2004, 2006 and 2008 election cycles, I’m not ready to give up on President Barack Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act
Tagged ACA, affordable care act, health care enrollment, health care marketplace, obamacare, Obamacare enrollment, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Navigating Change in Health Insurance – Part 2
While gaining an understanding of how the health insurance exchanges may change our family budget, I decided to wait until the government worked through the initial computer problems evident at the start-up of open enrollment. Last night, the glitches seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, affordable care act, health care enrollment, health care marketplace, obamacare
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The Cost of Carbon – 24 Hours of Reality
On Oct. 22 and 23, The Climate Reality Project will connect the dots between carbon pollution and climate change with the global live-streamed broadcast “24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon.” here’s the link: http://www.24hoursofreality.org. In Iowa, men and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Progressive Community
Tagged climate change, Climate change events, Cost of Carbon, global warming, The Climate Reality Project
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Navigating Change In Health Insurance
As a self-employed writer and farm hand, having health insurance means buying an individual policy in the marketplace. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance exchanges and initial open enrollment beginning Oct. 1 was a precipitating event … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable care act, obamacare, Obamacare enrollment
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GMO Crops Breed A New Form Of Slavery
Jim Hightower and his speech, From Factory Farms to GMOs, The Upchuck Rebellion Is Taking Root, has top billing at the Occupy the World Food Prize event on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Greed, food, Local Events
Tagged corporatism, GMOs, Monsanto, Occupy the World Food Prize, Syngenta Biotech, World Food Prize
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An Iowa View of Syria
(UPDATE: Sept. 4, 2013, 3:30 p.m. CDT: A new report from Russia, including a 100-page United Nations report on the chemical attack at Aleppo, Syria, indicates non-standard Syrian chemical weapons used in attack. Russian analysis suggests Syrian rebels may have … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Peace
Tagged Peace, Physicians for Social, Syria, Veterans for Peace
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