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Oct 13, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Jim Chrisinger |Laura Belin |Clark Kauffman |Katie Byerly
Jim Chrisinger is a retired public servant living in Ankeny. He served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, in Iowa and elsewhere. He also holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Preserving American democracy and the rule of law motivates me every day. I feel compelled to reach across the divide to those in my world who, wittingly or unwittingly, would undermine or even throw these foundations of our republic overboard. So of course I want to persuade them.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Rick Morain |Katie Byerly
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] When the last firework explodes, the calendar accelerates. School, a distant memory in June becomes a focus in July. There’s a lot to do and a short time to do it.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Rick Morain |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro
Top ten moments from the 2024 Democratic National Convention Sunday, Aug 25 2024 0 Comments I doubt either party has had a more successful convention in my lifetime than last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. I envisioned finishing this post on Friday, but it was so hard to choose my favorite moments that I ended up watching many DNC speeches a second time.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Rick Morain |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro
Feenstra challenger urges split ticket, vote for Democrat in IA-04 Saturday, Aug 24 2024 0 Comments Kevin Virgil, who gained nearly 40 percent of the vote in the Republican primary to represent Iowa’s fourth Congressional district, has encouraged his supporters to consider splitting their votes: Donald Trump for president and Democrat Ryan Melton for Congress.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rick Morain |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. Republicans, who control the Iowa House, the Iowa Senate, and the Iowa governorship, make no secret of their intent to entirely eliminate the state’s income tax. It probably won’t happen this coming year or the next, but the plan is now on a glide path.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Jason Benell |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
Jason Benell lives in Des Moines with his wife and two children. He is a combat veteran, former city council candidate, and president of Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers. Secularists, Freethinkers, Atheists, Agnostics, the non-religious—known collectively as the “Nones”—are on the rise in the United States, as well as in my home state of Iowa. According to the a Pew Research poll published in January 2024, the Nones represent nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population, which is no small amount.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman
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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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Bernie Scolaro |Ed Wasserman |Henry Karp
Iowa wildflower Wednesday: American white water-lily Wednesday, Aug 21 2024 0 Comments Katie Byerly of Cerro Gordo County is also known as Iowa Prairie Girl on YouTube. Click here to watch her video on American white water-lily. The water-lily doesn’t need much of an introduction. If you’ve seen a large white flower floating on a body of water, chances are that flower was an American white water-lily (Nymphaea odorata).
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Ed Tibbetts |Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Katie Byerly
Ed Tibbetts, a longtime reporter and editor in the Quad-Cities, is the publisher of the Along the Mississippi newsletter, where this article first appeared. Find more of his work at edtibbetts.substack.com. Senator Joni Ernst calls herself the U.S. Senate’s “fiercest advocate” for government accountability. Too bad she doesn’t appear to care about the country’s biggest tax cheats. Over the past couple years, the Iowa senator has been fixated on the Internal Revenue Service.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Katie Byerly |Norman Brewer
U.S. women have had phenomenal success at the Olympic Games in Paris. Simone Biles has won more Olympic medals than any other American gymnast. Katie Ledecky has won more Olympic medals than any other American woman in any sport. Lee Keifer became a three-time gold medalist in fencing and competed against Lauren Scruggs in “the first All-American final in the individual foil in Olympic history.” U.S. women also won their “first-ever team fencing gold in women’s foil” and their first medal in rugby.
