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Pathetic Republican Action On School Funding

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Once again Iowa’s legislature becomes the laughing stock of Iowa through its lack of action concerning Iowa schools at all levels. Iowa was once the gold standard for schools in this country and stood well across the world. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Affordable College, Medicaid, Economic Development, The Courtney Report

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Note: this is an editted version of Senator Courtney’s newsletter. For the whol newsletter, please go here. ENSURING COLLEGE STUDENTS CAN AFFORD THE EDUCATION THEY NEED We’re working to keep college affordable so that all Iowans get the educational opportunities … Continue reading →

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Gov. Walker’s Economic Development Agency Under the Microscope

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Dave Bradley

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2015 CONTACT: Mike Browne CELL: (608) 444-3483 ‘Record Shows He’s Enriched His Cronies While Failing to Deliver for the Rest of Us’ MADISON, Wis. and DES MOINES — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has come under … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: Bump And Grind For Donations Edition

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Saw this Mike Lukovich cartoon and just had to share it. Being in Iowa we will be viewed as the epicenter of politics until sometime in January. Yet in the Republican Party the epicenter is actually a much smaller group. … Continue reading →

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Write Grassley And Ernst Regarding The TPP

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Charles Grassley, like it or not, will be up for re-election in 2016. There is no time like the present to let him know what he should be doing for the people of Iowa. Joni Ernst is in her first … Continue reading →

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To Our Grandchild

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Dave Bradley

We want to get our apology in now. We won’t be around a lot longer and it looks like the one thing we had hoped to give you when you reached adulthood was a world that was at least trying … Continue reading →

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School Funding, Budget, Medical Marijuana – The Courtney Report

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Dave Bradley

ed. note: this is an editted version of Senator Courtney’s newsletter. For the full newsletter, please go here BUDGET PRIORITIES WILL EXPAND IOWA’S MIDDLE CLASS This week, the Iowa Senate released a budget proposal that will expand Iowa’s middle class … Continue reading →

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Climate Change It Is Happening, Folks

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Warmest 12 Month Period Were The Last 12 Months. In case you missed it, climate change has not gone away. Here in Iowa we have been spared much of the anguish of the effects of climate change, except for the … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday – It Is Cut Your Grass Week

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Dave Bradley

I have been cutting grass since I was 8 years old. I hate it – just hate it with a passion. It seems like so much make work to me. Grass’s main function is as a ground cover and an … Continue reading →

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Name One Thing The Republican Party Has Done FOR Americans

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Ran across the above video last week and it made me think of Thom Hartmann’s challenge to his audience to name one thing, just one thing that the Republican Party has done FOR the good of the American people in … Continue reading →

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