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Four Years After Start of Bush Recession, Iowa Remains 17,300 Jobs Behind

Posted on January 21, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Four Years After Start of Bush Recession, Iowa Remains 17,300 Jobs Behind Iowa Policy Project MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (Jan. 20, 2005) – Iowa’s sluggish recovery ended 2004 on the right track as the roller-coaster job performance through the year finished … Continue reading →

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Social Security: A Question Of Numbers

Posted on January 20, 2005 by bfiachadthompson

Social Security: A Question Of Numbers I finally got around to reading the article from this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The 30 minutes you'll spend reading it is well worth the time invested. Read It Here

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Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Fair Lending Task Force Meets January 20th (and other meetings of interest)

Posted on January 19, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Fair Lending Task Force Meets January 20th (and other meetings of interest) ICCI The first meeting of CCI's Fair Lending Task Force will be Thursday, January 20th at 6:00 pm. This new task force … Continue reading →

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Corporate Agribusiness: “Shocking But True”

Posted on January 19, 2005 by bfiachadthompson

Corporate Agribusiness: “Shocking But True” Today came a bunch of stories that I could only label “shocking but true”, so I put together three of them in this little post of horrors… Tomato Profiteering Remember that massive tomato shortage? According … Continue reading →

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Howard Dean Adds Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah to Growing List of Endorsements for Democratic National Committee Chair

Posted on January 19, 2005 by Trish Nelson

Howard Dean Adds Mississippi! Oklahoma! and Utah! to Growing List of Endorsements for DNC Chair Blog for America Following the news that the Florida delegation to the Democratic National Committee voted unanimously to endorse Howard Dean to be the party's … Continue reading →

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John Drury: Random Views from a Community Activist

Posted on January 18, 2005 by bfiajohndrury

Random Views from a Community Activist by John Drury Instead of writing on one topic this week, I thought I would take the opportunity to comment on a few things that have been happening in politics … some local, some … Continue reading →

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ACT Commemorates Dr. King by Shining Spotlight on Vote Fraud Aimed at African Americans

Posted on January 18, 2005 by bfialindathieman

ACT Commemorates Dr. King by Shining Spotlight on Vote Fraud Aimed at African Americans America Coming Together Some things haven't changed. It's time to ACT. Click here. There are so many powerful images from our country's long struggle for racial … Continue reading →

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EXPLORING IOWA NIGHT SKIES

Posted on January 16, 2005 by bfiamollyreagan

EXPLORING IOWA NIGHT SKIES SMITH'S ILLUSTRATED ASTRONOMY lists the planets as “Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, (Fifty-seven Asteroids or small planets,) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.” It asks, ” What is the body called upon which we live? It is … Continue reading →

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Solidarity Grows in Fight Over Gay Marriage Bans

Posted on January 16, 2005 by Trish Nelson

Solidarity Grows in Fight Over Gay Marriage Bans MotherJones by Tucker Foehl (JAN 14) In a novel approach to contesting gay marriage bans, Reverend Michael Ray and St. Thomas's Episcopal Church in New Haven, CT announced yesterday that they will … Continue reading →

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Soldier Receives Shabby Treatment from Pentagon

Posted on January 15, 2005 by Trish Nelson

Soldier Receives Shabby Treatment from Pentagon MinutemanMedia by Jim Hightower (JAN 12, 2005) When challenged directly by a crowd of America's troops about the Bushites' ongoing damnable failure to provide adequate armor for our soldiers, Pentagon chief Donnie Rumsfeld was … Continue reading →

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