Laura Belin
publisher and Editor at Bleeding Heartland
Statehouse Correspondent at KHOI-FM (Ames, IA)
Reporter, commentator covering Iowa politics for the progressive website Bleeding Heartland. Co-host of "KHOI's Capitol Week," available on podcast platforms.
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6 days ago |
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Rob Sand |Randy Evans |Bruce Lear
“The working class has been working their ass off every day to survive and make ends meet for their families,” Nathan Sage told me this week. Making working people’s lives better is the driving force of his U.S. Senate campaign. At least four Democrats are thinking seriously about running against two-term Republican incumbent Joni Ernst. Sage was the first to make it official, on April 16.
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1 week ago |
bleedingheartland.com | Rob Sand |Randy Evans |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin
Rob Sand is Iowa’s state auditor. Recently, an argument has been going around that goes like this: private schools are accredited to teach students, therefore they’re accountable to taxpayers. This claim ignores that being accredited as an academic institution has nothing to do with how an entity spends money. Accredited private schools taking vouchers still have no rules for how they spend tax dollars, and no audits either.
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1 week ago |
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Sue Dinsdale
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]. A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there.
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1 week ago |
laurabelin.substack.com | Laura Belin |Spencer Dirks
I laughed out loud when I saw Monday morning’s On Iowa Politics newsletter from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in my inbox. Des Moines Bureau Chief Erin Murphy wrote, “I was traveling Friday for a long weekend off. Did I miss anything?” I know the feeling. During my “past life” covering Russian politics, I called in sick one day in March 1998. That morning, President Boris Yeltsin fired his entire cabinet.
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1 week ago |
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin
It will take months to fully assess the fallout from Governor Kim Reynolds’ decision not to seek another term in 2026. But one thing’s for sure: State Auditor Rob Sand’s chances of winning the next governor’s race are substantially higher now than they were before April 11. The day before Reynolds announced her plans to focus on her family in the coming years, Morning Consult published its latest round of approval ratings for all 50 U.S. governors.
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Kim Reynolds has always polled poorly in Morning Consult. For years, lower approval in these polls than in the (much maligned by Republicans) Selzer polls for the Des Moines Register. I'm not saying the poll is right or wrong, just observing.
Morning Consult finds 49 out of 50 U.S. Governors have a net positive approval rating. The one exception? Kim Reynolds of Iowa, who is five points underwater https://t.co/IwrBv3EIQH https://t.co/QIreLSs9pM
