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Aug 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rick Morain |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. Republicans, who control the Iowa House, the Iowa Senate, and the Iowa governorship, make no secret of their intent to entirely eliminate the state’s income tax. It probably won’t happen this coming year or the next, but the plan is now on a glide path.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Jason Benell |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
Jason Benell lives in Des Moines with his wife and two children. He is a combat veteran, former city council candidate, and president of Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers. Secularists, Freethinkers, Atheists, Agnostics, the non-religious—known collectively as the “Nones”—are on the rise in the United States, as well as in my home state of Iowa. According to the a Pew Research poll published in January 2024, the Nones represent nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population, which is no small amount.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
Herb 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.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman |Henry Karp
Iowa wildflower Wednesday: American white water-lily Wednesday, Aug 21 2024 0 Comments Katie Byerly of Cerro Gordo County is also known as Iowa Prairie Girl on YouTube. Click here to watch her video on American white water-lily. The water-lily doesn’t need much of an introduction. If you’ve seen a large white flower floating on a body of water, chances are that flower was an American white water-lily (Nymphaea odorata).
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman |Henry Karp |Randy Evans
Bernie Scolaro is a retired school counselor, a past president of the Sioux City Education Association, and former Sioux City school board member. On a hot August day, I proudly joined the chant “USA! USA! USA!” I was wearing my American flag shorts and a blue tank. I was definitely proud to be an American. It was 2017. I was in Des Moines for the Solheim Cup, watching the U.S. women golfers play against the European women in team competition.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Ed Wasserman |Henry Karp |Randy Evans |AJ Jones
Ed Wasserman is a 52-year resident of Iowa and a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at The University of Iowa. The views expressed in his piece are his own and do not in any way reflect those of his employer. Donald Trump has often been credited with being a supremely slick sloganeer.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
Top Iowa Republicans complained this week that Democratic voters were “disenfranchised” by President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as his party’s nominee. Days earlier, they had celebrated the nomination of Donald Trump, who tried to nullify millions of Americans’ votes after losing the 2020 presidential election.
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May 18, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Laura Belin |Henry Karp |Ed Wasserman
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at [email protected]. You don’t often hear anyone extol the benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic. But I did a few weeks ago—when I stood before the Storm Lake Kiwanis club and talked about government transparency in Iowa. I did not wade into the debate over masks, social distancing or vaccinations. It was a polite audience, but I was not silly enough to needlessly venture onto that thin ice.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
pbs.org | Ed Wasserman
Editor’s Note: The political season has begun in earnest, presenting questions and situations PBS audiences have said are of concern. This essay by veteran scribe and journalism scholar Edward Wasserman launches a series of guest opinion and analysis that look at matters of interest to our viewers and readers. For the record: Wasserman, like me, is a member of the advisory board of the First Amendment Coalition.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
sfchronicle.com | Ed Wasserman
Or did the leaks, as his supporters claim, expose military wrongdoing that deserved exposure and, thanks to the release of reports from U.S. diplomats posted abroad, offer people worldwide valuable insight into what their own governments were doing that they might never have learned otherwise? Isn’t it time for the press, which benefited mightily from what it got from Wikileaks, to do the reporting that would enable the public to judge whether Assange is a traitor or a benefactor?
