This Week On The Fallon Forum

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Trish Nelson

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Dear Friends,

I love my audience. You’re always putting me in touch with brilliant people that I’ve never heard of. Take David Cay Johnston, for example. Okay, so he’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, author of multiple books, a distinguished professor. Yeah, I probably should’ve heard of the guy. But I’ve been walking across the country, just trying to survive. (That’s now my default excuse for everything, ok?)

Today we have David on the program to talk about the broader issues surrounding cheap gas prices. Yes, besides saving us money at the pump, cheap gas might help stop the Bakken Oil Pipeline and other fossil-fuel expansion projects. (I said “might.”) But what are the broader ramifications globally relevant to the climate crisis and political stability?

Also on today’s program, Kathleen McQuillen of American Friends Service Committee tells us about an upcoming conference featuring, among other great presenters, John Nichols of The Nation. The discussion highlights the corrupting role of corporate dollars in the political process and policy making, and what the average person can do about it.

Alex Morse joins us, too, to talk about his experience in Latin America and how climate change is impacting smallholder farmers there. The truth is, agriculturalists all over the world are far closer to the front lines of the climate crisis than many of us here in Iowa. Beyond the need to be concerned about our fellow human beings, we need to be paying tension because their story will eventually become our story.

Finally, Des Moines attorney Joseph Glazebrook joins us to talk about the pending historic US Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, which could mean that 2015 is the year where every gay or lesbian couple who wants to marry now has the right to do so — in all 50 states! Or . . . there could be an entirely different outcome.

Catch the Fallon Forum live on Monday from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon on KDLF 1260 AM “La Reina.” Join the conversation by calling in at (515) 528-8122. And you can hear the Fallon Forum on KHOI 89.1 FM (Ames) at 5:00 pm on Wednesday and on KPVL 89.1 FM (Postville) at 7:00 pm on Wednesday.

Thanks!

Ed Fallon

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Iowa House Democrats Rank High In Gender Equity

Posted on January 19, 2015 by bfiatracykurowski
Iowa State Capitol

Iowa State Capitol

Gender Disparity in State Houses

There is still much work to be done if women are to achieve overall gender equity in representative democracy leadership.

House Minority Leader Mark Smith put out an e-newsletter that announced a remarkable statistic. For the 2015 legislative session, 49% of the House Democratic caucus was composed of women, making it one of the most gender-balanced state bodies in the nation.

But this is a narrow statistic, and though twenty-one of the forty-three Democrats in the Iowa House are women, only six of fifty-six Republican state house representatives are women (11%).

The numbers of women in the Iowa Senate are much worse. While six of twenty-six Democratic Senators are women (23%), just one out of twenty-four Senate Republicans are women (4%). Altogether, 22.7% of Iowa legislators are women, behind the national average of 24.4%. Right now there are thirty-four women who have gaveled in for the 2015 session of the Iowa legislature, one behind the record high of thirty-five women who served in the 2009 and 2014 sessions.

Iowa Democrats seem to do a better job of selecting women to be in its caucus leadership. Democrat Pam Jochum is the Senate President, and two of the four assistant majority leaders and three committee chairs are women. The only female Republican senator, Amy St. Clair, while not selected as a leader in her caucus, is a minority chair on the Education Committee.

In the Republican controlled House, only one woman is in leadership, Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer, and three Republican women are Committee Chairs. Eight Democratic women serve as ranking members of committees.

How do women fare in other states?

According to the National Conference on State Legislatures, approximately 1,785 women will serve in the 50 state legislatures in the 2015 legislative session, essentially no change from the proportion in the 2014 sessions. Iowa ranks ahead of seventeen states, but behind thirty-two states.

Nebraska has the fewest women in raw numbers with only ten women elected to its legislature. Since this is the only state with non-partisan elections, one wonders if women would have better or worse chances if associated with a party? Of the 1,785 women serving this year in state legislatures, 1073 are Democrats, 698 are Republicans, four are third party, and ten are those “non-partisan” Nebraskans.

Louisiana has the lowest percentage rate with only 12.5% of its legislators who are women, followed closely by Oklahoma with 12.8%.

Colorado has the highest rate with 42% of its legislators who are women, followed by Vermont with 41.1%. New Hampshire leads the way with one hundred twenty-two women in its extraordinarily large legislature.

Illinois is 31% female, Minnesota is 33%, Missouri is 24.4%, Wisconsin is 25%, and South Dakota is 21%.

The strangest part of all these numbers, however, is that when women run for office, they actually do quite well. According to Political Parity:

“Conventional wisdom often holds that women candidates have a more difficult path to elected office than their male counterparts. However, recent studies of the performance of women candidates demonstrate that they fare the same as, if not better than, men in similar races. The greatest issue in increasing the ranks of women to elected office is the significant lack of female candidates.”

Since voters seem to have no problem electing women, both parties, as well as non-partisans need to do a much better job of recruiting women to run for office.

Tracy Leone
Organizer
Iowa Federation of Labor

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Congressional Black Caucus Will Defend Voting Rights

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Trish Nelson

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A day after a top Republican seemed to dismiss the need to restore a critical part of the Voting Rights Act, lawmakers Thursday told NBC News they would re-introduce bipartisan voting rights legislation next week, in what the Congressional Black Caucus says will be a massive effort to aggressively defend voting rights. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., suggested other sections of the Voting Rights Act are already strong enough. “To this point, we have not seen a process forward that is necessary to protect people because we think the Voting Rights Act is providing substantial protection in this area right now,” Goodlatte said while speaking to reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Calling Goodlatte’s statement a “bombshell,” the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., warned,

“If Bob Goodlatte is speaking for the Republican Conference, this is a very serious development because we are going to push back in a very significant way against the unwillingness of the Republicans to take up extending section five protections.”

Civil rights leader and Assistant Democratic Leader Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., responded to Goodlatte in a phone interview with NBC News saying, “the world is replete with people who disavow the notion that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Clyburn, who was chosen by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to lead the voting rights effort for House Democrats added, “the problem we have with so many issues here in this Congress is that too many people want to see the damage done before they do anything.”

selma-300x206The debate over the 1965 Voting Rights Act was quickly reignited on a day that happened to be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. It was also a day that opened with the news that a powerful movie, depicting a crucial moment in the movement Dr. King led, earned a Oscar nomination for “Best Picture.”

 

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Maybe Branstad Should Read Iowa Policy Project And Progress Iowa

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Couldn't pass an Iowa Schools math test

Couldn’t pass an Iowa Schools math test


My wife and I just got home from a little trip out for an afternoon. As we drive along we note the condition of what we have come to call “Branstad Boulevards.” These are roads that are full of holes and bumps and disappearing edges that were once pretty good roads. Iowa is filled with them. I got off on one last summer that made me wonder if I hadn’t crossed an international border someplace along the way. Nope – we were someplace in central Iowa hoping the road wouldn’t suddenly became a gravel road underneath us.

Since that time we have been calling those car killers “Branstad Boulevards.” Now, I understand that our leader has claimed there is not enough money to fix these roads. Yet, didn’t we have some pretty hefty tax cuts in the past couple of years? Conditions inside cities of all sizes are even worse as tax policy has slowly choked city finances on the horns of higher requirements and lowered potential income. We call those “Branstad Boulevards” also.

Isn’t the job of a leader to see a problem and come up with solutions. Branstad and his Republican colleagues have been avoiding raising road use tax for years. It is time to be open and honest on this issue and many others. Admit the problem and propose solutions. Our predecessors built roads and water lines and sewers and also left established a means to pay for upkeep and repair. Tax cutting mania has raided many of those funds and various agencies are left with sticking chewing gum into holes as solutions.

Roads are hardly the only problem. I was reading the Condition of the State address Branstad gave Tuesday. My first impression is that before we can solve problems, we must be honest about what the problem is. Jobs is the first thing my eyes fell on. Branstad claims his administration has created 168,000 jobs. That is the kind of math that the old Politburo used to use. When one job is created and one removed, that is a net of zero not a plus of one. Yet Branstad has used what we in our house call “Branstad Math” for four years and no one in the media that has access disputes him.

Branstad has similar problems in many other areas, particularly around wages and the plight of the poor and middle class in Iowa. Since he is supposed to be the leader of all of Iowa I would suggest that he AND his staff take a little trip outside their comfort zones. The articles on the Iowa Policy Project its partner Iowa Fiscal Partnership and ProgressIowa are well written, fairly easy to read and best of all, loaded with well researched facts. Facts are something that Branstad and his colleagues are usually short on.

Here is a brief blurb from Progress Iowa’s take on the Condition of the State speech: http://progressiowa.org/sections/progress-report/54b558de75c9a13ce5000018

Branstad Ignores Middle Class in Condition of the State
13 Jan 2015 — 11:27 AM | By Progress Iowa

Branstad refuses to say the words ‘middle class’ during condition of the state address & uses dishonest math on job growth.

Governor Branstad failed to mention Iowa’s middle class during his Condition of the State address today, where he outlined his priorities for the upcoming year and legislative session. The Governor also claimed credit for creating 169,000 jobs, when only 82,500 have been created since the beginning of his term.

Progress Iowa Executive Director Matt Sinovic issued the following statement In response to the Governor’s remarks, which also failed to mention poverty or minimum wage:

“Governor Branstad failed middle class Iowans today. He refused to even say the words ‘middle class’ while at the same time heaping praise on a number of out of state corporations. The Governor’s priorities are completely out of step with everyday Iowans, who know that the foundation of our economy and our state’s success is a strong and growing middle class.”

“Governor Branstad’s distorted jobs math proves that he has no respect for working Iowans. The Governor inflates the number of jobs created by not counting jobs that have been lost, insulting every Iowan who has lost work during his term in office. An accurate accounting of Iowa’s job growth is less than half as many as the Governor claims.”

“The Governor also refused to bring up a minimum wage increase, or acknowledge the 300,000 workers who would benefit from an increase. Unfortunately, minimum wage workers in Iowa have waited longer than those in any other state for a raise.”

“Governor Branstad’s refusal to mention the middle class, poverty, or minimum wage during his Condition of the State address today was disappointing but not surprising. His failure to prioritize the needs of middle class working families has never been more clear.”

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Sunday Funday – January Thaw Edition

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Dave Bradley
I need a Koch!

I need a Koch!

Seems like just last week we were freezing our tookusses off. Hold it – last week we were freezing our tookusses off. But thanks to a blast of hot air from statehouses around the country we get our annual January thaw. For those of you who say state legislators are good for nothing, you most certainly have forgotten the unproven link between the convening of legislatures and the January thaw. It’s enough to wake up a groundhog.

Were you paying attention?

1) Governor Branstad claimed his administration has created 168,000 jobs. In reality, how many jobs has Iowa gained in the past 4 years?

2) Two black men prominent in the civil rights movement of the ‘60s have birthday anniversaries this week in January. Martin Luther King’s birthday is January 15th. Whose 73rd birthday was January 17th?

3) Pope Francis said last Sunday that caring for the poor is part of the gospel and not what?

4) After a bumpy ride, Terri Wahlert suddenly resigned Sunday as Iowa’s Director of what agency?

5) President announced a new initiative that would offer 2 years of what free to Americans?

6) Here’s one to test your memory. What former Republican governor of New York is considering a run for president?

7) Where did 2014 rank among recorded years for temperature globally?

8) According to data from the CDC, what will soon overtake car accidents as the leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds?

9) Rand Paul told a reporter last week that what was the definition of insanity?

10) Kamala Harris announced her intentions to run for the California senate seat after what long term senator announced her retirement?

11) President Obama made a case for wider broadband access in what Iowa city last week?

12) One of the Iowa Regent Universities will have a retirement in August. Who is retiring as Iowa’s president August 1st?

13) Bobbity, bobbity, bobbity. Feng Lung was arrested in China for doing what to her husband, not once but twice?

14) And the beat goes on. House Republicans tacked an amendment defunding what Obama executive action on to a funding bill for the DHS?

15) According to the Southern Education Foundation the majority of public school students share what economic condition in the United States?

No doubt the campaigning for president will bring even more hot air into Iowa soon.

1) @ 82,000

2) Muhammed Ali

3) Communism. Always nice to see the right trot out the communism bogey.

4) Workforce Development

5) Community College

6) George Pataki. Anyone remember Pataki? Seats in the clown car going fast!

7) the hottest ever

8) guns – trend is car deaths going down and gun deaths going up. Sad

9) Mitt Romney running for president again. Scary, I agree with Rand Paul on something.

10) Barbara Boxer

11) Cedar Falls

12) Sally Mason

13) Cutting off his penis. Once at home and once more after it was reattached in the hospital.

14) Obama’s executive order on immigration.

15) Poverty. 51% + of US public school students now come from homes in poverty. Why do we fund charter schools?

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Killing Internet Neutrality: Republicans Go On The Attack

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Dave Bradley

al franken on net neutrality

Here we go again. After a long delay and much hemming and hawing, it was beginning to look like FCC Chair Tom Wheeler was about to the right thing and propose new FCC rules for internet neutrality. One of the key provisions is expected to be redefining the internet as a common carrier.

With all the delay, Republicans were able to take control of both houses of Congress. As usual Republicans dance to the tune played by their wealthy owners. Major players among those owners include the Telecommunications industry and individual companies such as Verizon or AT&T.

So with the threatened change in FCC rules – Wheeler was to make his proposals Feb. 5th with a vote coming by the commission on Feb. 26th. The last thing the industry wants is to be classified as a common carrier.

Well, what good is it to buy politicians and buy control of the Congress if you can’t use it? So the call goes out and Republicans respond. Buried in some innocuous looking proposed provisions are a couple of provisions that essentially remove the internet from any FCC influence.

Sen. John Thune (R-SD), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, said that his legislation will enforce these 11 “bipartisan rules in the Internet Age”:

* Prohibit blocking
* Prohibit throttling
* Prohibit paid prioritization
* Require transparency
* Apply rules to both wireline and wireless
* Allow for reasonable network management
* Allow for specialized services
* Protect consumer choice
* Classify broadband Internet access as an information service under the Communications Act
* Clarify that Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act may not be used as a grant of regulatory authority
* Direct the FCC to enforce and abide by these principles

Defining broadband as an “information service” would prevent the FCC from reclassifying Internet access. Restricting the FCC’s Section 706 powers could also interfere with the commission’s plans for preempting state laws that prevent cities and towns from building broadband networks.

In order to beat the time frame announced by Chair Wheeler, committee hearings in both the House and the Senate are suddenly announced for next Wednesday. You can feel pretty well assured that that these committees will propose legislation that will rushed through the House and the Senate.

Once more I ask, what good is it to buy control of Congress if you can’t use it when you need it?

All those letters you sent and calls you made may well have been wasted. A few well placed dollars are decidedly much more effective. Thank you, Roberts’ Court. Thank you Citizens United. And a special thanks to those who either voted for these crooks or failed to vote, thus allowing them to take power. Yes, elections do have consequences.

One of the consequences is paying by far the highest dollar for the worst internet service in the world. But it can get worse.

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Ernst To Deliver Response To The State Of The Union

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Dave Bradley

joni ernst the perfect Koch investment

No doubt this is not news to anyone reading this. Since her selection as the new rising star in the pantheon of Republican stardom Iowa news sources have been all a-twitter and a-flutter about what this means to Ernst and to Iowa which had the uncommon sense to elect her. Note that uncommon does not mean good or smart. More the opposite in this case.

Most have this pegged as meaning that Joni’s star is on the rise and that the poobahs that own the Republican Party have hand picked her as someone who will be a future face of the party. Those owners are Charles and David Koch in particular, but also folks like the DeVos’s, and all the other billionaires that bought the Republican party long ago.

So why would they bet their millions on Joni Ernst? My thoughts are that they did not. Those who have given the so-called Republican response have for the most part slipped in to obscurity. Most folks can name only two who gave the response and them only because it was so awful. They were Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal. While both of these men will run for president in 2016 – Jindal plans to kick off his run with a huge prayer meeting at the Pete Maravich Center on the LSU campus next weekend – both are still trying to downplay the notoriety gained in their laughable performances in their “responses.”

Joni Ernst was probably picked for many reasons. First she is not up for re-election soon. Therefore a crappy performance Tuesday will hopefully not haunt her for 6 years. Second she brings the face of one of the groups that Republicans continue to lose – women. Not the voice of women, mind you but just a face. No, she will be yet another voice spewing the lies of the wealthy that own her party.

Finally Ernst will conjure in many minds the image that thrust her into the national spotlight to begin with – that of the woman who castrated hogs on the farm and promised to bring that expertise to Washington politicians.

Considering that those who gave response in the past have had about 5 minutes of fame followed by a lifetime of obscurity, I say it couldn’t happen to a nicer person.

And now let’s hear from the Iowa Democratic Party:

Fw: Statement on Ernst Delivering the State of the Union Response
For Immediate Release:

January 15, 2015

Contact:
Christina Freundlich
314-302-0602

Statement on Ernst Delivering the State of the Union Response

Des Moines – Iowa Democratic Party Chair Scott Brennan released the following statement on Joni Ernst giving the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address:

“What a disappointment it is to see that the GOP has chosen Joni Ernst as the new face of the Republican Party. Joni Ernst ran on stripping the rights of women to make their own health care decisions, eliminating the EPA and Department of Education, nullifying laws passed by the federal government, and arresting federal officials who are working to expand access to healthcare. If the GOP wants to spotlight someone who is open to impeaching President Obama and went so far to call him a ‘dictator,’ then the new bipartisan outlook of Congress just vanished into thin air.”

HUFFINGTON POST: Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses. Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst said she would support a federal bill that gives legal personhood rights to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, effectively wiping out legal abortion in the United States. Ernst voted for a fetal personhood amendment in the Iowa State legislature in 2013, and she told the Sioux City Journal editorial board on Wednesday that she also would support a federal personhood measure if she were elected to the U.S. Senate. “I will continue to stand by that. I am a pro-life candidate, and this has been shaped by my religious beliefs through the years,” she said. “So I support that.” [Huffington Post, 10/16/14].

POLITIFACT: “Does Joni Ernst Want To Abolish The Education Department And The EPA?” “True.” In June 2014, Politifact reported, “A new ad from a coalition of environmental groups tries to paint Iowa’s Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst as too extreme. The groups, which include the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Action Fund, kicked off a nearly $1 million campaign with a 30 second TV spot on June 23, 2014. The ad raises concern over Ernst’s promises ‘to shut down the Department of Education and abolish the EPA.’ It claims that these promises are ‘why extremist Sarah Palin and the billionaire Koch brother want Ernst in Washington.’ All in all, the ad concluded that Ernst is ‘Too extreme for Iowa.’ It’s not unusual for political ads to distort candidate’s positions. Does Ernst really call for the abolition of the U.S. Education Department and the Environmental Protection Agency? Our research showed that the ad was right on track. Ernst called for the closure of both agencies in April.” [Politifact, 6/27/14]

TALKING POINTS MEMO: GOPer Ernst Backed Arresting Feds Over Obamacare in 2012 Survey. State Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, once said she would support legislation that would allow “local law enforcement to arrestfederal officials attempting to implement” Obamacare. Ernst voiced her support for that, as well as supporting legislation that would “nullify” Obamacare in a Iowa State Legislative Candidates survey for Ron Paul’s libertarian-aligned Campaign for Liberty in 2012. [Talking Points Memo, 10/4/14].

RADIO IOWA: Video shows Ernst discussing impeachment, calling Obama a “dictator” “A video has surfaced from a January campaign event in southwest Iowa, showing Republican US Senate candidate Joni Ernst suggesting Republicans in congress should hold President Obama accountable for executive overreach.” [Radio Iowa, 7/8/14]

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List Of Iowa Legislators Supporting Monica Vernon For Congress

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Trish Nelson

monica vernonCEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids City Councilwoman and Mayor Pro Tempore Monica Vernon today announced over a dozen endorsements of leaders across the state in her bid for congress in Iowa’s First Congressional District.

Below is the complete list of leaders who are endorsing Monica Vernon today:

State Senator and President of the Senate Pam Jochum
State Senator Liz Mathis
State Senator Rob Hogg
State Senator Bill Dotzler
State Senator Joe Bolkcom
State Senator Bob Dvorsky
State Senator Rich Taylor
Former State Senator Jack Hatch
State Representative Art Staed
State Representative Kirsten Running-Marquardt
State Representative Liz Bennett
State Representative Timi Brown-Powers
State Representative Vicki Lensing
State Representative Mary Mascher
State Representative Sally Stutsman

For more information, go to

Monica Vernon Announces 2016 Congressional Run

Monicavernonforcongress.com/

 

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Loebsack Statement On HR 37

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Trish Nelson

dave loebsack updated“I strongly support the Volker rule and agree that we must work so that it remains as strong as possible. However, included in the Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act, HR 37, was a fix to Dodd-Frank that had an economic impact on farmers and rural Iowans and supported the future of Iowa’s rural economy. I therefore held my nose and supported the first version of HR 37. Since then, I urged the agriculture focused provisions to be decoupled from the provisions weakening the Volker rule. Recently, the agriculture provisions were fixed and I no longer support HR 37. Yesterday, [Wednesday] when the most recent vote on HR 37 occurred, I was traveling with President Obama in Cedar Falls, had I cast a vote, I would have voted against this legislation.”

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Climate Marchers Heading To The White House

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Trish Nelson

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAExciting news for climate change marchers from Ed Fallon:

Dear Friends,

On Wednesday, January 28th at 10:00 a.m., twelve participants of the Great March for Climate Action will arrive at the White House for a meeting with Dan Utech, Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change and Rohan Patel, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Marchers traveling to Washington, DC for the meeting come from ten states. They will share with Mr. Utech and Mr. Patel their experiences throughout the eight-month, 3,000-mile journey from Los Angeles to Washington, DC last year. Marchers want to thank President Obama and his administration for their leadership on climate change, including the President’s promised veto of legislation authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. At the same time, marchers will urge the President’s staff in the strongest possible way to take bolder action, and to take it sooner rather than later.

“We experienced things most people can’t even imagine,” said Ed Fallon, the March’s founder. “Throughout our journey, we encountered first-hand some of the unprecedented weather climate scientists have predicted. And we met face-to-face people impacted by climate change and people grappling with an expanding fossil fuel infrastructure that is damaging or destroying their land, water and very way of life.”

The participants traveling to the White House are Fallon and Miriam Kashia (Iowa), Steve Martin (Kentucky), Marie Davis (Vermont), Kathe Thompson (Florida), Paul Sherlock (Ohio), Doug Grandt (Nebraska), John Jorgenson (Arizona), Benjamin Bushwick (Maryland), Kat Haber (Alaska), and Kelsey Erickson and Bruce Nayowith (Massachusetts).

Podcasts from this week’s Fallon Forum are available here, and include these conversations:

– Lessons for America on Paris terror attack
– Nebraska Supreme Court thwarts justice on Keystone pipeline, with Channing Dutton
– Wanted: Leadership on bio-diesel, with David May
– Change needed in Iowa’s primary election process, with State Senator Brad Zaun
– Bad news for bees, with State Apiarist Andy Joseph

Catch the Fallon Forum live on Monday from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon on KDLF 1260 AM “La Reina.” Join the conversation by calling in at (515) 528-8122. And you can hear the Fallon Forum on KHOI 89.1 FM (Ames) at 5:00 pm on Wednesday and on KPVL 89.1 FM (Postville) at 7:00 pm on Wednesday.

Ed Fallon | fallonforum@gmail.com | The Fallon Forum | 735 19th St. #1 | Des Moines, IA 50314

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