Category Archives: Jobs

Group Seeks To Help Women Overcome Barriers To Employment

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Trish Nelson

Group Seeks To Help Women Overcome Barriers To Employment If you (or a woman you know) are job-seeking but lack transportation and can't afford to buy a car until you actually have a job, Women With Drive, a non-profit organization … Continue reading →

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GOP 2012 Campaign Strategy: Ruin The Economy

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dave Bradley

GOP 2012 Campaign Strategy: Ruin The Economy by Dave Bradley Some reading for the Fourth of July. As for me, there are but two holidays that count in the calendar year – the Fourth of July and whatever you want … Continue reading →

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Ideology and Iowa Food Prices

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Ideology and Iowa Food Prices by Paul Deaton [Editor's Note: This is the second article in a Blog for Iowa series about food and food pricing in Iowa, centered around a comparison shopping trip to buy ingredients for a bowl … Continue reading →

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Muscatine Iowa and a Triple Bottom Line

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Muscatine Iowa and a Triple Bottom Line by Paul Deaton Grain Processing Corporation may have already received return on its proposed $75 million investment in a new grain dryer in Muscatine when Mayor Richard O'Brien said the company's plans should … Continue reading →

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Progressives and Iowa Food Prices

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Progressives and Iowa Food Prices by Paul Deaton [Editor's Note: This is first in a series of articles about food and food pricing].Why would a lime would cost $0.69 in one store and $0.44 in another five miles away, a … Continue reading →

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Do Iowans Seek a "Movement" on Immigration Reform?

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Do Iowans Seek a “Movement” on Immigration Reform? by Paul Deaton When President Obama spoke about tackling complex social issues, like immigration reform, in El Paso last Tuesday, he hit the nail on the head, “When an issue is this … Continue reading →

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Spare Iowans the Reagan Revisionism, Huckabee Style

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Iowans need former minister Mike Huckabee to re-tell the history of the Ronald Reagan years like we need a hole in the head. Huckabee recently launched a company called Learn Our History, and one of its projects is a children’s … Continue reading →

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Dave Loebsack Wants to Make it in Iowa

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Washington, D.C. May 6, 2011 Dear Constituent: Last week, I completed my Make It In Iowa tour through the Second District. This tour allowed me to meet with many employers, small businesses, and hardworking Iowans throughout the Second District. I … Continue reading →

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Iowa and a Spring Wedding

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Iowa and a Spring Wedding by Paul DeatonWould give almost anything for a few dry days and a chance to enjoy Spring's warmth. There are a lot of reasons. Row crop farmers are way behind last year's planting, with corn … Continue reading →

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Loebsack on Iowa Workforce Development

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Paul Deaton

Loebsack on Iowa Workforce Development April 20, 2011 Dear Governor Branstad, I write to bring to your attention concerns my constituents have expressed to me with respect to the proposed closing of Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) offices such as in Lee, … Continue reading →