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Dec 31, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Henry Karp
Henry Jay Karp is the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel in Davenport, Iowa, which he served from 1985 to 2017. He is the co-founder and co-convener of One Human Family QCA, a social justice organization. This essay first appeared on his Substack column.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Henry Karp
Henry Jay Karp is the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel in Davenport, Iowa, which he served from 1985 to 2017. He is the co-founder and co-convener of One Human Family QCA, a social justice organization. This essay first appeared on his Substack column. Shortly after the recent election, Democratic State Representative Ken Croken, one of the members of the Quad Cities delegation to the Iowa legislature, hosted a meeting at a local library.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Arnold Garson |Andy Johnson |Dan Guild |Henry Karp
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. Presidential endorsements in American newspapers had a good run—more than 150 years—and America is the better for it.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Andy Johnson |Dan Guild |Henry Karp |Diane Porter
DSM Lawyer is an attorney in central Iowa. When will we stop politicizing the judiciary? I practice in Polk County District Court Associate Judge Rachael Seymour’s courtroom all the time and have thoughts about why she received low marks in the Iowa State Bar Association’s judicial performance review. Yes, hearings in her courtroom tend not to run on time, and she can take a long time to issue a written ruling. Why?
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Andy Johnson |Dan Guild |Henry Karp
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. Out of desperation, as a fearful election day looms, let’s grasp at some straws to try to make sense of what we’ve been through and, even worse, what might be ahead. For example, some political campaigns have had musical themes.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Sami Scheetz |Andy Johnson |Dan Guild |Henry Karp
Sami Scheetz represents Iowa House district 78, covering part of Cedar Rapids. When we brought our daughter home from the hospital a few months ago, and I watched our baby swaddled in her bassinet, sleeping peacefully, I couldn’t help but think about the future my wife and I are building for her. Now, with the November 5 election a few days away, I wonder: What kind of place will Iowa be for families today and for generations to come?
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Andy Johnson |Dan Guild |Henry Karp |Diane Porter
Andy Johnson works in the locally-owned clean energy transition, and farms with his wife and three daughters in rural Winneshiek County, northeast Iowa. Is Kamala Harris angry? I sure as hell hope so, and I wish she’d say so. The angry American right does its darnedest to paint her as an angry Black woman. This angry white male Iowa farmer wishes she’d get mad, in a good way. Here is what I imagine she might say.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Dan Guild |Henry Karp |Diane Porter |Bruce Lear
Dan Guild is a lawyer and project manager who lives in New Hampshire. In addition to writing for Bleeding Heartland, he has written for CNN and Sabato’s Crystal Ball, most recently here. He also contributed to the Washington Post’s 2020 primary simulations. Follow him on Twitter @dcg1114. In November of last year, I asked, “Are Republicans really gaining among Black voters?” Since then, political reporters have written article after article on the subject.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Henry Karp |Diane Porter |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin
Henry Jay Karp is the Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel in Davenport, Iowa, which he served from 1985 to 2017. He is the co-founder and co-convener of One Human Family QCA, a social justice organization.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Henry Karp |Diane Porter |Bruce Lear
Voters will decide in November whether to let Iowa Supreme Court Justice David May serve in that role for another eight years. Justice May is heavily favored to keep his job. There is no organized statewide campaign against him, comparable to the well-funded efforts to oust Iowa Supreme Court justices in 2010 and 2012. His two colleagues who were up for retention in 2022 each received about 67 percent “yes” votes.
