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Category Archives: Progressive Community
Missing Pieces Of #RaiseTheWage
The loud but small-sized movement to raise the minimum wage is made up of good people. There are not enough of them to make a difference. Their voice is amplified in corporate news outlets, but neither the federal nor state … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community
Tagged #RaiseTheWage, labor, minimum wage
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Overnight Dispatches
Even if we remove references to the mogul from the feed, Monday was a very busy news day. Word came last night of Herald Smith’s passing. Smith was founder of CRST, Inc., the trucking company he famously started in a … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community
Tagged #nobakken, #RaiseTheWage, Herald Smith, Keith Richards, Minimum Wage increase, Rolling Stone, Slavery
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Blog For Iowa On RAGBRAI
Trish Nelson continues her summer break on RAGBRAI, sending these photographs from Butler County, home of those great Butler County Democrats. Safe travels and have fun!
Fair Booth Workers To Receive Non-violence Training
It’s a sad state of affairs when non-profits feel they must take non-violence training in preparation to staff a booth at the Johnson County Fair. PEACE Iowa, Veterans for Peace, 100Grannies for a Livable Future and Iowa Physicians for Social … Continue reading
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Tagged 100Grannies for a Livable Future, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, Peace, PEACE Iowa, Progressive Community, Veterans for Peace
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Coping With Iowa's Coarsening
At a convenience store in North Liberty yesterday, a young guy was fueling his large black pickup truck. A companion was riding shotgun, both clad in blue jeans and dark T-shirts. The brief moment would have passed unnoticed except for … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community, progressive values
Tagged confederate flag, Iowa politics, Progressive Community, U.S. flag
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Going Solar In Iowa
(Editor’s Note: This is an update of a previous post on solar energy). Climate Reality Leadership Corps founder and former vice president Al Gore gave his slide show, an updated version of the one used in the film An Inconvenient … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Progressive Community
Tagged climate change, energy, environment, global warming, Solar Energy, Solar Power
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What An Iowa Progressive Reads
Most millennials I know don’t subscribe to cable television or read many books. That’s not to say they are uninformed, just that with the explosion of the Internet after the mid-1990s, there is so much to occupy one’s attention and … Continue reading
Moyers Still Around And Bringing The Heat
Did anyone really think Bill Moyers would retire and go crawl in a hole quietly when he finally(?) retired from PBS? Surely you knew better. Moyers, writing with Michael Winship at Common Dreams, uses an op-ed written by a corporate … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Corporate Greed, Progressive Community, progressive values
Tagged Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
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Mayor Bill de Blasio Headlines Progress Iowa Event
Des Moines – Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City will deliver remarks at an event for Progress Iowa on Thursday, April 16th at the Iowa State Education Association in Des Moines, Iowa. Mayor de Blasio will focus his … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill de Blasio, income inequality, Iowa progressives, Progress Iowa
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Climate Reality Leadership Training May 5-7 In Iowa
On Tuesday more than 400 people joined a webinar titled, “Change Starts with You: Becoming a Climate Reality Leader,” hosted by the Climate Reality Project in advance of the May 5-7 training in Cedar Rapids. The Climate Reality Leadership Corps … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Progressive Community
Tagged al gore, climate change events in Iowa, environment, local events, The Climate Reality Project
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