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Jul 19, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Henry Karp |Bruce Lear |Rick Morain |Kara Grady
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. I live in the Quad Cities, which unite the states of Iowa and Illinois across the Mississippi River. It always has been a point of community pride that we are the home of the international headquarters of John Deere & Company, the major producer of farm equipment.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Rick Morain |Kara Grady |Jared Strong
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] Changes in youth sports since the 1970s seem as dramatic as Iowa’s weather this summer. Those changes raise questions about whether sports are an extracurricular activity or should be the main focus for some kids.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rick Morain |Kara Grady |Jared Strong |Kurt Meyer
Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em,Know when to fold ‘em,Know when to walk away,And know when to run. Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler”“The Gambler” should be the current theme song of President Joe Biden’s campaign.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Michaelyn Mankel |Kara Grady |Jared Strong |Kurt Meyer
Michaelyn Mankel is an Iowa Organizer with Food & Water Action, the political and lobbying arm of the national environmental group Food & Water Watch. She is based in Des Moines. Last month, the Iowa Utilities Board (renamed the Iowa Utilities Commission as of July 1) approved Summit Carbon Solutions’ permit application for a carbon pipeline.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Kara Grady |Jared Strong |Kurt Meyer |Laura Belin
Editor’s note from Laura Belin: This week Iowa wildflower Wednesday highlights the regal fritillary, an insect species that depends on plants native to the tallgrass prairie. Kara Grady is a writer and plant enthusiast from eastern Iowa. Her work has been published by the Iowa Native Plant Society, Lyrical Iowa, Bleeding Heartland, and most recently by the Women, Food, & Agriculture Network. She currently lives and writes in northeast Ohio.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Laura Belin |Lora Conrad |Kara Grady
Photo by Kara Brady of Lesser yellow lady’s slipper (Cypripedium caleolus), found in Jones CountyGuest authors carried the load for most the twelfth year of Bleeding Heartland’s wildflowers series. Although I have been getting around pretty well (despite a catastrophic ankle fracture in early 2022), the pace of Iowa political news was relentless in 2023. In part for that reason, I spent less time on trails and prairies than I would have liked.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Kara Grady |Laura Belin
Posts 5 Comments 0 Posts Comments Ratings Iowa wildflower Wednesday: The magic of monarch waystations Wednesday, Sep 27 2023 Kara Grady 1 Comment Kara Grady is a wildflower enthusiast living in eastern Iowa. Her work has been published in the Erythronium newsletter of the Iowa Native Plant Society. When she’s not going on rare flower adventures, she can be found reading the latest botanical books or attending prairie seminars.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Nancy Dugan |Bruce Lear |Kara Grady |Nate Willems
NC attorney conducting Summit Carbon mediations with Iowa landowners Thursday, Sep 28 2023 0 Comments Nancy Dugan lives in Altoona, Iowa and has worked as an online editor for the past 12 years. A North Carolina attorney is conducting mediation sessions the Iowa Utilities Board has facilitated between Summit Carbon Solutions and landowners on the company's proposed CO2 pipeline route, the board's general counsel confirmed to Bleeding Heartland.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Kara Grady |Nate Willems |Laura Belin
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. Whenever Dad saw someone struggling to get something done, he’d say, “That guy's working with a short-handled shovel.”U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s shovel handle is short, and he let a tiny group of his own party saw it off so he could become speaker.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Kara Grady |Nate Willems |Laura Belin |Nancy Dugan
Iowa wildflower Wednesday: The magic of monarch waystations Wednesday, Sep 27 2023 0 Comments Kara Grady is a wildflower enthusiast living in eastern Iowa. Her work has been published in the Erythronium newsletter of the Iowa Native Plant Society. When she’s not going on rare flower adventures, she can be found reading the latest botanical books or attending prairie seminars. Sitting down outside the crystal store in Amana, my eye was drawn to a sign half-hidden across the way.
