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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Glenn Branch |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Arnold Garson
Glenn Branch is the deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that promotes and defends accurate and effective science education. As Iowa continues the process of reviewing and revising its state science standards—which establish the goals for what knowledge and skills students in the state’s public schools are expected to attain—a remark from a famous transient Iowan comes to mind.
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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Arnold Garson |Al Charlson
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. He can be reached at [email protected] In the fall of 1975, I was a freshman at Central College in Pella, Iowa. I had spent the summer detasseling corn, so college rescued me from dew-drenched mornings and sweat-dripping afternoons.
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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Arnold Garson |Al Charlson |Dan Piller
I wouldn’t have guessed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over the pre-election Iowa Poll could assert claims any more outlandish than the original court filing in December. Enter U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks and former State Senator Brad Zaun. The Des Moines Register’s William Morris was first to report on February 4 that Miller-Meeks and Zaun signed on as plaintiffs in Trump’s case against J. Ann Selzer, her polling company, the Des Moines Register, and its parent company Gannett.
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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Arnold Garson |Al Charlson |Dan Piller
Nannette Griffin announced on February 10 that she will seek the Democratic nomination for the coming special election in Iowa House district 100. A lifelong resident of southeast Iowa, Griffin is the founder and owner of Griffin Muffler & Brake Center, a longstanding auto repair business in Fort Madison. She has been active in numerous civic organizations and received an award for women entrepreneurs from the Small Business Development Centers of Iowa.
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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Arnold Garson |Al Charlson |Laura Belin |Dan Piller
The things you never knew about Jewish Iowa Sunday, Feb 9 2025 0 Comments Arnold Garson is a semi-retired journalist and executive who worked for 46 years in the newspaper industry, including almost 20 years at The Des Moines Register. He writes the Substack newsletter Second Thoughts, where this article first appeared. This essay tells the stories of a handful of Jews who played important roles in shaping the state of Iowa and some cities during the 19th century.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
charitonleader.com | Arnold Garson
Jimmy Carter was a Georgia peanut farmer and former one-term governor when he decided to run for the presidency in 1975. He was almost unknown nationally. He had virtually no experience in the federal government or national politics. He was a Democrat from the Deep South. His party had not won an election with a candidate from the Deep South for almost a century and a half since Andrew Jackson of Tennessee became the nation’s first Democratic president in 1828 and won reelection in 1832.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
dewittobserver.com | Arnold Garson
Jimmy Carter was a Georgia peanut farmer and former one-term governor when he decided to run for the presidency in 1975. He was almost unknown nationally. He had virtually no experience in the federal government or national politics. He was a Democrat from the Deep South. His party had not won an election with a candidate from the Deep South for almost a century and a half since Andrew Jackson of Tennessee became the nation’s first Democratic president in 1828 and won reelection in 1832.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
maqnews.com | Arnold Garson
Jimmy Carter was a Georgia peanut farmer and former one-term governor when he decided to run for the presidency in 1975. He was almost unknown nationally. He had virtually no experience in the federal government or national politics. He was a Democrat from the Deep South. His party had not won an election with a candidate from the Deep South for almost a century and a half since Andrew Jackson of Tennessee became the nation’s first Democratic president in 1828 and won reelection in 1832.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
iowacapitaldispatch.com | Arnold Garson
Jimmy Carter was a Georgia peanut farmer and former one-term governor when he decided to run for the presidency in 1975. He was almost unknown nationally. He had virtually no experience in the federal government or national politics. He was a Democrat from the Deep South. His party had not won an election with a candidate from the Deep South for almost a century and a half since Andrew Jackson of Tennessee became the nation’s first Democratic president in 1828 and won reelection in 1832.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
arnoldgarson.substack.com | Julie Gammack |Arnold Garson
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. becomes Secretary of Health and Human Services, it is possible that people will die as a result. All it would take is another pandemic at a time when the top health official in the United States is a man who has a years-long record of working to end the development and use of preventative vaccinations. This time, his rantings against vaccinations would attract more attention and likely convince many more people to take a pass on vaccines.
