Category Archives: Blog for Iowa

Preparing For The Wrong Enemy

The current president sent out the first volley Wednesday in what will be the upcoming budget discussions. As former Vice-President Joe Biden once said “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh Leader Of Right Wing Cult

Rush Limbaugh is still broadcast on these Iowa commercial stations.   WOC Quad Cities, WHO Des Moines, KSJC Sioux City, WMT Cedar Rapids KILR Estherville, KGLO Mason City, WDBQ Dubuque.   If you live in one of these broadcast areas, contact your … Continue reading

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Iowa Statehouse News

August 30, 2017 Apple Awarded $213 Million Apple Inc, the most profitable company in the world, was awarded $213 million from Governor Kim Reynolds and local officials to build a new data center in Waukee that will create 50 jobs. … Continue reading

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How You Can Help Animals Impacted by Hurricane Harvey Even if You Live in Iowa

Animals are displaced too. You can help humans by helping their pets. How you can help: UPDATE: Our Animal Rescue Team is on the ground in Texas and working with local officials to help animals impacted by Hurricane Harvey. But … Continue reading

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Loebsack: Iowa Red Cross Volunteers Need Our Financial Support

Message from Iowa’s only Democratic representative in congress, Dave Loebsack: This weekend, Hurricane Harvey devastated Texans with flooding, high winds, and heavy rains. As many as 30,000 may be forced into shelters and 450,000 are likely to seek some form … Continue reading

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Democrats Taking on Monopolies “A Huge Deal”

Thom Hartmann is the nation’s #1 rated progressive talk radio host.  The YouTube video below is an interesting segment of a recent program. You wouldn’t miss much if you skip ahead to about 4:30 and catch the extremely important last … Continue reading

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Congress Seeking Fast-Tracking Cuts To Social Security

Back in May republicans let it be known that Social Security was a huge target. (3 minutes) Email from Social Security Works  Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have demonstrated an inability to pass any meaningful legislation. But next month they’ll … Continue reading

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Progress Iowa Corn Feed In Two Weeks!

Let’s show Republicans that we will be a force next year! {editorial comment} 5 minutes Governor Reynolds and her administration aren’t doing Iowans any favors. From her budget crisis caused by massive corporate tax breaks to the closing of four … Continue reading

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Sunday Funday: Monuments Edition

Think about this one: On one hand this administrations working to cut back on national monument areas that were declared so by previous presidents. On the other hand this administration, in the person of the current president, is publicly declaring … Continue reading

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Monsanto: Harvest Of Power

Listening to American Public Radio’s Marketplace is kind of an accidental habit with me. It is on at 6:30PM locally which is a time I seem to usually choose as a wash up time. Since that is an area of … Continue reading

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