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Feb 21, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Steve Corbin |Alexandra Dermody |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin
Steve Corbin is emeritus professor of marketing at the University of Northern Iowa and a freelance writer who receives no remuneration, funding, or endorsement from any for-profit business, nonprofit organization, political action committee, or political party. Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a German Lutheran pastor, composed a 1946 post-World War II confessional titled “First they came for the Socialists . .
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Alexandra Dermody |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin
Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. He wrote this essay after attending the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ virtual public hearing about the new Chapter 65 regulations on February 19. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been revising its regulations for animal feeding operations as dictated by Governor Kim Reynolds’ Executive Order 10, issued in early 2023.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Alexandra Dermody |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Dave Leshtz
Flag designed by Reddit user oshaboy to be compliant with the U.S. Flag Code of 1818Alexandra Dermody is a Davenport-based Gen Z community advocate, nonprofit director, and small business owner. The experience of transgender Americans is fraught with difficulty, particularly for trans women of color, who are disproportionately targeted for violence and prejudice.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Rachel Bruns |David P. Tilly |Alexandra Dermody
Trans Iowans face broadest civil rights threat in years Monday, Jan 29 2024 0 Comments An Iowa House Judiciary subcommittee will soon consider the broadest threat to trans rights since lawmakers added gender identity protections to the Iowa Civil Rights Act in 2007, the first year of a Democratic trifecta.
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Jan 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Daniel Clark |David P. Tilly |Alexandra Dermody |Laura Belin
This column by Daniel G. Clark about Alexander Clark (1826-1891) first appeared in the Muscatine Journal on August 2, 2023. Above: Underground Railroad map by State Historical Society of Iowa. It’s okay to imagine Muscatine as a station on the Underground Railroad, but only two reliable accounts tell specific instances of aid to the freedom seekers. I’ve told about the 1848 Jim White case that is an important piece of the story of our hometown hero Alexander Clark.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Alexandra Dermody |Laura Belin |Bernie Scolaro |Zachary Roth
Photo of Davenport City Hall is by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsAlexandra Dermody is a Davenport-based Gen Z community advocate, nonprofit director, and small business owner. As a lifelong Davenport resident, Gen Z business owner, nonprofit director, activist, and queer woman with a deep vested interest in the future of my community, I am deeply concerned about the state of my city’s governance.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Alexandra Dermody |Laura Belin
Posts 7 Comments 1 Crumbling foundations: Davenport's struggle with governance and integrity Photo of Davenport City Hall is by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsAlexandra Dermody is a Davenport-based Gen Z community advocate, nonprofit director, and small business owner.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Rachel Bruns |David P. Tilly |Alexandra Dermody
“The First Amendment prohibits government officials from arbitrarily denying reporters access to official information, and from discriminating against reporters based on their viewpoint,” declares a federal lawsuit filed on my behalf on January 19. Yet since 2019, the Iowa House Chief Clerk “has arbitrarily applied an ever-shifting credentialing system” to limit my “ability to gather and report political news” from the Iowa House chamber.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Pat O'Donnell |Kara Grady |Alexandra Dermody
Governor Kim Reynolds got just about everything she wanted from the Iowa legislature during the 2023 session. But she signaled this week that she isn't ready to let bygones be bygones when it comes to Republicans who have stood in her way. The governor's office announced three District Court judicial appointments on June 16, including Michael Carpenter for District 8A, covering ten counties in southeast Iowa. The other person nominated for that judgeship was former State Representative Dustin Hite.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Pat O'Donnell |Laura Belin |Kara Grady |Alexandra Dermody
Pat O’Donnell is a resident of Sioux Center and spent 37 years serving in Iowa public schools as a teacher, principal and superintendent. He may be reached at [email protected]. A version of this commentary first appeared in the N'west Iowa Review. "Foundation in Education" was the motto on the Iowa quarter issued in 2004.
