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Food Without SNAP

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Paul Deaton

SNAP cuts: how will they impact eastern Iowa? How can our community respond? Please join Fairness for Iowa for a Town Hall event that discusses how the $1 billion of cuts to SNAP in Iowa will impact our communities in … Continue reading →

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MAGA Congress: The Upward Distribution Of Wealth

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dave Bradley

  Pramilla Jayapal (D- Wash) summarizes how bad the cuts are (1 minute) Thom Hartmann has a real way of making hard to understand concepts pretty straight forward. In his daily letter for Wednesday, Hartmann explained how MAGA lawmakers are … Continue reading →

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Summer Community Parades Are Back Despite Pandemic

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Paul Deaton

Most people along the parade route reacted positively to the Johnson County Democrats entry in the Solon Beef Days Parade on July 17. All over the state, parades have re-emerged as a social activity after missing last summer because of … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Later

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Dave Bradley

Better later than never on remembering the Iraq War. I would probably not have said a thing had I not stumbled across this article at the Booman Tribune. In his entry for the Iraq Invasion Day Booman relates how disconnected … Continue reading →

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