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Health Care Reform Update: This Thing Is Going To Work (Or, Woot!)

Posted on October 27, 2009 by altapricehome

Health Care Reform Update: This Thing Is Going To Work (Or, Woot!) By Alta Price, M.D.I just heard on the tee vee Harry Reid’s announcement that the health care reform bill in the Senate will include a public plan option, … Continue reading →

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Iowans Play Prominent Role at Showdown in Chicago

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Iowans Play Prominent Role at Showdown in Chicago Larry Ginter of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI.Org) was featured on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! this morning, shown on video rallying the crowd of protesters at the American Bankers Association convention … Continue reading →

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Union Holds Rally for Hundreds of Locked Out Workers in Muscatine, Iowa

Posted on October 26, 2009 by bfiatracykurowski

Union Holds Rally for Hundreds of Locked Out Workers in Muscatine by Tracy KurowskiPhoto:  The rat is a prop used at picket lines for various reasons, usually a strike, lockout, or when unfair labor practices are being committed.On Saturday, October … Continue reading →

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Are Iowans Being Brainwashed by Fox News?

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Are Iowans Being Brainwashed by Fox News? Brainwash:  subject (a person) to a process by which ideas are implanted in the mindWell, it does feel like torture, listening to Fox or right-wing talk radio for any length of time at … Continue reading →

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Constitutional Clash: When English-Only Meets Voting Rights in Iowa

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Constitutional Clash: When English-Only Meets Voting Rights in Iowa by Michael A. ZuckermanCornell UniversityYale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 28, 2010 Posted with permission from the author.  The following is an excerpt (citations have been excluded for space).  Click on … Continue reading →

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Learning from the 1999 Vote on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Part 2

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Paul Deaton

Learning from the 1999 Vote on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Part 2 by Daryl G. KimballWhat Went Wrong in 1999 This article is re-printed with permission of the author.The record of the CTBT in the Senate from 1997 to … Continue reading →

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Iowans Turn Wine Into Water

Posted on October 22, 2009 by bfiaguestwriter

[by Cathy Lafrenz] Last week, the World Food Prize was awarded in Des Moines to Gabisa Ejeta for his development of a drought-resistant variety of sorghum. Sorghum is a major food source in the Sudan and drought conditions have left … Continue reading →

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Mike Denklau Attacks Steve King for Partisanship, Distractions

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Trish Nelson

Mike Denklau Attacks Steve King for Partisanship, Distractions Denklau for Congress.com At first look, Steve King challenger Mike Denklau may not seem like someone you would expect to be able to put an end to the long Iowa nightmare of … Continue reading →

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URGENT! Save the Internet – Contact Boswell & Grassley for Opposing Net Neutrality

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Trish Nelson

URGENT!  Save the Internet – Contact Boswell & Grassley for Opposing Net Neutrality The following is a message from Free Press: Sometimes politicians need to be reminded whom they really work for. Now is one of those times.On Friday, Rep. … Continue reading →

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Health Care Reform Update: It’s Time to Deliver

Posted on October 20, 2009 by altapricehome

Health Care Reform Update: It’s Time to Deliver by Alta Price, M.D.Today, Tuesday, October 20, is a national Congressional call in day for health care reform, with Organizing for America (OFA) as the lead organizer. Call your members of Congress … Continue reading →

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