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Grassley’s Iowa Town Hall Meeting Schedule For This Week
Update: This week Grassley will be in Iowa holding town hall meetings in DeWitt, Muscatine, Marengo, Tama, Vinton, Tipton. Scroll down for complete schedule and times. The caucuses are over. It’s an election year. Our elected officials should be questioned … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley
Tagged town halls
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Has Occupy Turned To Real Politics?
This may be a far afield reach on my part, but am I the only one that sees the current Democratic primary season as an extension of the Occupy movement from a little over 4 years ago? Bernie Sanders has … Continue reading
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Occupy Wall Street
Tagged revolution
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Sunday Funday: It Has Been Colder Edition
“When I was a boy, if you talked to someone outside, you’d have to gather up the frozen words, take them inside and thaw them before you knew what they said.” Well, it is cold outside but not nearly as … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
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Gun Liability Insurance: A Coming Idea?
A friend sent me a story concerning a new movement to have owners of guns being required to carry liability insurance on those guns. This has always seemed like a no brainer to me. Guns do major damage in this … Continue reading
Posted in gun control
Tagged cost of guns to society, gun insurance, peronal responsibility, personal accountability
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Iowa Senate Rejects Branstad Plan On Medicaid
For what it is worth at this juncture let’s have a big hand for the Iowa Senate which passed SF 2125 Thursday that called for the termination of contracts for the managed care of Iowa’s Medicaid program. This is better … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Branstad
Tagged Linda Upmeyer, medicaid in Iowa, Privatization, profitizing
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The Courtney Report
Excerpts from Sen. Tom Courtney’s weekly legislative report. The full newsletter can be found here: http://www.senate.iowa.gov/senator/courtney/newsletter/ IOWANS WANT GREAT LOCAL SCHOOLS Iowa leaders, parents, students and teachers are calling on Governor Branstad and lawmakers to make our local schools a … Continue reading
Posted in Courtney Report, Iowa legislature 2016
Tagged Iowa Medicaid changes, Iowa middle class, iowa school budgeting, parents for great iowa schools
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Sunday Funday: Who Cares About The Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is much like Donald Trump. Since you hear about it in nearly every other sentence at some point you become curious about what it looks like. But I have fallen for that trick before. Yet again this … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
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Grassley, Ernst Proudly Vote Stupid
Republicans vote to deny climate change caused by human activity. In a little reported amendment offered by Sen. Brian Schatz (D- Hawaii) our nation’s senators voted on whether climate change was caused by human activity. This has been settled science … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley, Climate Change, Republicn Policy
Tagged climate change caused by human activity
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Branstad, Snyder Typify Republican Party
When I think of Republicans, especially Republicans in power I think of incompetence beyond anyone’s worst nightmare. In their drive to enrich their wealthy donors, they push hard for cuts to any programs that help the poor and help maintain … Continue reading
Posted in Branstad, Iowa legislature 2016, Republicn Policy
Tagged earmarked sales tax, Iowa schools, school cuts
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