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Mar 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Joe Bolkcom
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at [email protected]. No problem is so big that we can’t run from it—or at least avoid thinking about it. That’s human nature. There are many concerns that should command our attention but do not. Too often we hope or assume a serious problem will go away or will spare us.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Joe Bolkcom
Food connects all the dots in life (A review of BARONS) Monday, Mar 25 2024 0 Comments 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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Mar 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Daniel Clark |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Joe Bolkcom
History Day champions Monday, Mar 25 2024 0 Comments This column by Daniel G. Clark about Alexander Clark (1826-1891) first appeared in the Muscatine Journal on November 29, 2023. This month I assisted a northeast Iowa middle-school student with her National History Day project. “I am doing Alexander Clark and the impacts he had on desegregating schools,” she explained. We traded messages and then “zoomed” with help from her teacher.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Joe Bolkcom |Dave Busiek
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] There’s a beloved children’s book titled, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Alexander wakes up with gum in his hair, and it gets worse from there.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Joe Bolkcom |Dave Busiek |Kurt Meyer |David P. Tilly
Former State Senator Joe Bolkcom served on the Senate Ways and Means Committee for 24 years, including ten years as chair. For the past eight years, Iowa taxpayers have been victims of a political scheme to collect our hard-earned taxes for services we never received.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
press-citizen.com | Joe Bolkcom
Joe Bolkcom is a former state senator who served on the Senate Ways and Means Committee for 24 years, 10 years as chairman. For the past eight years Iowa taxpayers have been victims of a massive Ponzi scheme. One where we have paid our hard-earned taxes for things we never received!Instead of investing our money in priorities to make Iowans stronger and more prosperous, Gov.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter |Laura Belin |Randy Evans |Joe Bolkcom
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter is a freelance journalist from the American Midwest. She covers social justice stories, especially pertaining to disability. Her work has appeared in Parents, Mother Untitled, The Omaha World Herald, The Insider and elsewhere. You can follow her on X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Iowa is known for being nice. Old-fashioned values seem rooted in the ground, tracing back to 1846. An idyllic landscape, simple and plain, yet beautiful, as depicted in American Gothic.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Joe Bolkcom |Nancy Dugan |Bruce Lear
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at [email protected]. The rationale behind Iowa’s professional licensing laws is simple: People in certain professions and skilled occupations are required to hold state licenses to work in Iowa. The purpose is to ensure they meet the minimum standard of training and skill necessary to serve consumers safely and effectively.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Joe Bolkcom |Nancy Dugan |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin
Joe Bolkcom represented Iowa City in the Iowa Senate from 1999 through 2022. Iowans will soon elect city council and school board members. Hundreds of candidates have put themselves forward as they campaign on ideas to address unique local challenges and needs. These local elected officials are the backbone of making our small government democracy work.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
littlevillagemag.com | Joe Bolkcom
Iowans will soon re-elect, and elect new, city council and school board members. Hundreds of Iowans have put themselves and their ideas forward as they campaign for votes based on addressing unique local challenges and needs. These local elected officials are the backbone of making our small government democracy work.
