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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Dan Piller |Bruce Lear |John Kearney
“The grassroots of America love making America great again,” David Pautsch told me during a February 5 telephone interview. “It’s the political establishment people, including and especially the Republican establishment, that is the biggest albatross around our neck.”Pautsch is counting on the MAGA grassroots as he prepares for a rematch against U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks in the 2026 GOP primary for Iowa’s first Congressional district.
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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Dan Piller |Bruce Lear |John Kearney
Previewing the March 11 special election in Iowa House district 100 Friday, Feb 7 2025 0 Comments Governor Kim Reynolds announced on February 7 that she has scheduled a special election in Iowa House district 100 for Tuesday, March 11. The seat became vacant due to the recent passing of State Representative Martin Graber. The district covers most of Lee County, including the population centers of Keokuk and Fort Madison.
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2 months ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Dan Piller |Bruce Lear |John Kearney |Dean Lerner
The Tariff Man goes to war Thursday, Feb 6 2025 0 Comments Dan Piller was a business reporter for more than four decades, working for the Des Moines Register and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He covered the oil and gas industry while in Texas and was the Register’s agriculture reporter before his retirement in 2013. He lives in Ankeny.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Richardson |Randy Evans |Laura Belin |John Kearney
Randy Richardson is a former educator and retired associate executive director of the Iowa State Education Association. At long last the Iowa Department of Education released school enrollment numbers for the current school year on January 17. Public school enrollment took another dip this year as a total of 480,665 students attended Iowa schools. That’s a decrease of 3033.3 students from the previous year. Private schools, however, continued their growth with a total of 39,356 students.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Dexter Merschbrock |Randy Evans |Laura Belin |John Kearney
Dexter Merschbrock is a member of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 373 from Cedar Rapids, spouse to a public school teacher, former school board member, and father of three. He is originally from Fort Madison. As this year’s Iowa legislative session gets underway, supporters of public schools can expect little in the way of substantive policy to make things better for our state’s students and families.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Laura Belin |John Kearney |Gerald Ott
Iowans deserve transparency on government employee departures Tuesday, Jan 21 2025 0 Comments Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes openness and transparency in Iowa’s state and local governments. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |John Kearney |Gerald Ott |Bruce Lear
At least ten Iowans are among some 1,500 people President Donald Trump pardoned on his first day back in the White House. The sweeping proclamation affects everyone convicted of offenses related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Most of them will receive a “full, complete and unconditional pardon.” Fourteen named individuals, who were leaders of the extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, will have their sentences commuted to time served.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |John Kearney |Gerald Ott |Bruce Lear
What had been obvious for weeks became official on January 14. Hours after Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Joni Ernst announced in an interview with WHO Radio’s Simon Conway and later in a news release that she would vote to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense. It never seemed likely Ernst would stand in Hegseth’s way.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
bleedingheartland.com | John Kearney |Laura Belin |Gerald Ott |Bruce Lear
John Kearney is a retired philosophy professor who taught at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has lived in Waterloo, Iowa for the past six years. On January 9, 2025, Robert Barron, Roman Catholic Bishop and prelate of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota, posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter):I was watching highlights from President Carter’s funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. I found some of the speeches very moving.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
desmoinesregister.com | John Kearney
John Kearney of Waterloo is a retired philosophy professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Should a citizen base her vote on a presidential candidate’s qualifications, policy prescriptions, and character? Presumably, but not everyone thinks these are the only criteria. In a HuffPost blog entry prior to the 2008 election, Peter V.
