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Author Archives: Dave Bradley
Question
“Question” by the Moody Blues” One of the pieces that seems to be missing in the stories I have been able to find concerning Iowa’s continuing starvation of our education system is how this fits in with the history of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Budget, Education, Iowa legislature 2017
Tagged budget mismanagement, misplaced priorities
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Charlottesville: The Outward Manifestations Of Race In America
I will try to make this to the point. What happened in Charlottesville was the pot that had been boiling beneath the surface finally bubbling over so that we can really see that there is a problem. Will America be … Continue reading
Comment On Charlottesville
very short scene of the march in Charlottesville yesterday (8/12/2017) Watching the events unfold yesterday there were two thoughts that kept cropping up in my mind. The first was of my late Father-In-Law. Like so many of his day as … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Racism in America
Tagged alt-right, bigotry, Charlottesville, hate
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Employers Used to Believe in the Power of Aggregate Demand, What Happened?
From the Thom Hartmann Show Thursday: Thom discusses the change in America’s business community from being good corporate citizens who saw their employees as assets to today’s atmosphere where corporations exploit whatever they can. Thom speaks with guest Rick Wartzman … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Corporate Greed, Labor
Tagged Rick Wartzmann, rising inequality, thom hartmann
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Sunday Funday: Bellicose, Blustering Buffoon Edition
Here is a little something from many of our pasts. The administration wants to return to the 1950s in so many ways. Here is one that seems appropriate for what’s going on today. 9 minutes of memories. Sorry we couldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Who Really Owns American Farmland
“We’re used to thinking of escalating rents as an urban problem, something suffered mostly by the citizens of booming cities. So when city people look out over a farm—whether they see corn stalks, or long rows of fruit bushes, or … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Farming
Tagged corporate agriculture, Food Security, resources
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Union Recertification Begins Next Month In Iowa
The massive and in my mind catastrophic overhaul had a clause meant to drive a wedge between state workers in Iowa. Built out of the Republican playbook of “divide and conquer” the clause that puts the recertification of a union … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Labor, union busting
Tagged Americans For Prosperity, Branstad/Reynolds administration, economic inequality, recertification
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August 6th, 1965 – Lyndon Johnson Signs The Voting Rights Act.
video – 49 minutes The rapidity and disdain with which the current administration and Republican led states across the country are working to strip voting rights from citizens conjures up memories of the Jim Crow days of the the long … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Iowa Voters, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Sunday Funday: Lammas Edition
Earlier this past week on the pagan calendar the feast of Lammas was celebrated. From wicca.com: At Lammas, sometimes called Lughnasadh, it’s time to celebrate the first harvest of the year, and recognize that the hot summer days will soon … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Branstad Leaves Reynolds Holding The Bag
In what had to be one of the great escapes in recent political history in this state, Terry Branstad royally screwed things up and then left for the relative quiet of China. Branstad has made a very successful career of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Budget
Tagged busted budget, Kim Reynolds, medicaid privatization, roads
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