Adam Zabner

Apr 24, 2024 | monticelloexpress.com | Adam Zabner

American democracy is at its best when Americans participate. Unfortunately, Iowa’s Department of Health and Human Services is holding some Iowans back from participating in our elections.    In 1993, Congress, with bipartisan support from Iowa’s federal delegation, passed the National Voter Registration Act to encourage participation. The NVRA is the reason you are asked to register to vote every time you renew your driver’s license.

Apr 22, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Nancy Dugan |Adam Zabner

State Representative Joel Fry floor manages a bill on raising elected officials’ salaries on April 18Before adjourning for the year on April 20, the Iowa Senate did not take up a last-minute bill from the House that would have given state legislators and statewide elected officials a $10,000 raise, effective 2025. Lawmakers should not wait until the closing days of the next session to address this issue.

Apr 21, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Adam Zabner

From left: Iowa House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl, Florida Governor RonDeSantis, Iowa Senate President Amy Sinclair, Governor Kim Reynolds. Photo first published on Reynolds’ political Facebook page on December 18, 2023. Bruce Lear lives in Sioux City and has been connected to Iowa’s public schools for 38 years. He taught for eleven years and represented educators as an Iowa State Education Association regional director for 27 years until retiring.

Apr 19, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Adam Zabner |Randy Evans

Summit Carbon sued for $15 million over canceled pipe contract Friday, Apr 19 2024 0 Comments Nancy Dugan lives in Altoona, Iowa and has worked as an online editor for the past twelve years. Disclosure: Dugan has filed several objections into the Summit Carbon Iowa Utilities Board dockets in opposition to the CO2 pipeline. She has neither sought nor received funding for her work. Welspun Tubular LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Mumbai-based pipe manufacturer Welspun Corp.

Apr 19, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Laura Belin |Adam Zabner |Randy Evans

Jon Stewart discusses Donald Trump’s Gettysburg remarks on The Daily ShowHerb Strentz was dean of the Drake School of Journalism from 1975 to 1988 and professor there until retirement in 2004. He was executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council from its founding in 1976 to 2000. Seldom do late-night TV hosts scoop the giants of the mainstream news media.