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Author Archives: Paul Deaton
Will Reproductive Freedom Do The Work?
Iowa House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst said the message for Democratic candidates is clear in 2024. There are two issues: reproductive freedom and public education. Both are equally important. Where the rubber meets the road, during local political canvassing, many … Continue reading
Clearing The Field
The metaphor Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart used at the June 15 state convention was apt. After saying Democratic candidates had a tough road ahead, she likened the work leading to the November election to clearing rocks from a … Continue reading
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Tagged House Democratic Leader Jennifer Konfrst, IDP Chair Rita Hart, Iowa Democrats, Iowa politics
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Call Balls And Strikes? Not So Fast!
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Food and Drug Administration, et. al., vs. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et.al., a case about use of the drug mifepristone in terminating pregnancies up to seven weeks. The high court found unanimously the … Continue reading
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Do Iowa Democrats Need A Political Convention?
I was selected as a delegate to the Iowa Democratic Party state convention which convenes at 10 a.m. today. There weren’t enough volunteer delegates nominated at the county convention, so I threw my hat in the ring knowing I might … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Convention 2024, Iowa Democratic Party, Iowa Democrats, Iowa politics
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Bill Anders Died As He Lived
Early Saturday morning news media reported Bill Anders died at age 90 while a plane he was piloting crashed into the sea off Washington State. He was a pilot at the beginning of his career and that’s how it ended. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Bill Anders, Earthrise, environment, NASA, obituary
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A Progressive Summer Reading Program
At a time when conservative political activists tell us what we can and can’t read and learn in public spaces, summer reading programs at public libraries continue to thrive. In the City of Solon, population 3,018, 261 kids attended the … Continue reading
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Tagged #amreading, books, reading list, summer reading
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Migration From Newspapers To Other Media
This chart says a lot about the history of newspapers in the 21st Century. As the number of employees in the business declined by 75 percent, private equity extracted financial resources from these businesses through mergers and acquisitions, leaving a … Continue reading
To EV Or Not To EV
Moving the automotive economy toward electric vehicles is a good thing for multiple reasons. An important benefit is to decrease reliance on burning stuff in an internal combustion engine. In the late 19th Century, Rudolph Diesel invented an engine that … Continue reading
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Tagged ActOnClimate, climate change, climate crisis, electric vehicles, environment, Iowa politics, Miller-Meeks
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Book Review: Minority Rule
A decent history of American politics in the post-Obama era has yet to be written. One can’t rely upon any of the conservative principals to author one, because they have been drinking at the well of minority rule for too … Continue reading
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Tagged #iapolitics, 1965 Voting Rights Act, Ari Berman, book review, Immigration, Minority rule, politics
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Nuclear Power Isn’t It
Little has changed to make nuclear power a safe and affordable option to produce electricity. That didn’t stop Iowa Republican members of congress, all four of them, from voting for H.R. 6544, the Atomic Advancement Act of 2023. They were … Continue reading
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