Kathleen Mccarthy

3 weeks ago | rcreader.com | Kathleen McCarthy |Kathleen Mccarthy

Inexplicably, for decades, incurious American voters refuse to remove elected bad actors, even though we are responsible for giving them power and access. The lawlessness and corruption has gotten so over the top and still we do nothing, ever-expecting the ones who are breaking our system to fix it. This inertia is beyond wishful thinking: It is lazy, cowardly, slothful civic conduct.

1 month ago | rcreader.com | Kathleen McCarthy |Kathleen Mccarthy

For two years, lifelong Scott County residents Dr Allen Diercks and Diane Holst (a former Scott County Board of Supervisor) put their money where their convictions are and hired Attorney Mike Meloy to take Scott County, Iowa, and Auditor Kerri Tompkins to court in 2023 to compel her in the direction of greater transparency and participation with Scott Countians by disclosing the list of names and addresses of 27 candidates who submitted résumés for a vacant supervisor seat on the Scott County...

Mar 21, 2025 | rcreader.com | Kathleen McCarthy |Kathleen Mccarthy

I don't know anyone who isn't touched by the compassion and trust between human and animal that bonds us together for life, while simultaneously becoming thoroughly disgusted with government regulatory abuse that interferes with the best part of human-animal interaction, after learning the story of Peanut the squirrel. Seven years ago, Peanut the baby squirrel was rescued and restored to health by Mark Longo and Rachel Tindal, wildlife rehabilitators in New York.

Mar 7, 2025 | rcreader.com | Kathleen McCarthy |Kathleen Mccarthy

In 2023, Dr Allen Diercks and former Scott County Supervisor Diane Holst enlisted Attorney Mike Meloy's expertise in a lawsuit to force transparency on the part of of our elected public officials with respect to the people's representation. I can't encourage and urge people enough to read the case documents for a great lesson in how government service is supposed to work according to law, but how said service often goes awry.

Feb 14, 2025 | rcreader.com | Kathleen McCarthy |Kathleen Mccarthy

In 2013, the newly enacted Smith-Mundt Modernization Act permitted government, in partnership with media, to propagandize Americans for national security interests. Prior to this, the original Smith-Mundt Act of 1946 prohibited government and/or media from propagandizing Americans under any circumstances.