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Aug 28, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Diane Porter |Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Jack O'Connor
Diane Porter of Fairfield first published this post on My Gaia, an email newsletter “about getting to know nature” and “giving her a helping hand in our own backyards.” Diane also maintains the Birdwatching Dot Com website and bird blog. Walking a damp trail at the woods edge, I’m surrounded by flowers. Pink and purple clusters of blossoms dangle from low branches and brush my face. This is Groundnut (Apios americana), a native flowering vine of North America.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Daniel Clark |Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Jack O'Connor
Black History Month from Carver to Clark Wednesday, Aug 28 2024 0 Comments This column by Daniel G. Clark about Alexander Clark (1826-1891) first appeared in the Muscatine Journal on February 7, 2024. For the second year since becoming an official state holiday, February 1 was George Washington Carver Day. What better kickoff for Black History Month every year?
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Jack O'Connor |Bruce Lear
Nancy Dugan lives in Altoona, Iowa. Disclosure: Dugan has filed several objections into the Summit Carbon Iowa Utilities Commission dockets in opposition to the CO2 pipeline. She has neither sought nor received funding for her work. Late on Friday afternoon, August 23, the Iowa Utilities Commission posted a Motion to Declare the Acquisition of Certain Land Interests Noncompliant by the Bremer County Board of Supervisors.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Clark Kauffman |Nancy Dugan
Declaring that “This election is bigger than any one person” and “the stakes are just too high,” first Congressional district nominee Christina Bohannan on July 11 called for President Joe Biden “to withdraw from this campaign and pass the torch to a new generation of leadership.”The same day, the Democratic nominee in Iowa’s second Congressional district, Sarah Corkery, said the president should “pass the baton” to Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Clark Kauffman |Nancy Dugan |Randy Evans
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] We’ve all heard these old adages. “You can’t force a round peg into a square hole.” “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” There are a lot of other things we shouldn’t try to force.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Clark Kauffman |Nancy Dugan |Randy Evans |Bernie Scolaro
Clark Kauffman is deputy editor at Iowa Capital Dispatch, where this article first appeared. The state of Iowa says it will not necessarily disclose to the public the rationale for disciplinary charges against licensed professionals such as physicians, nurses, therapists, and nursing home administrators. The determining factor appears to be whether the state’s licensing boards choose to include the allegations within the text of a final order in a disciplinary case.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Nancy Dugan |Randy Evans |Bernie Scolaro |Laura Belin
Nancy Dugan lives in Altoona, Iowa. Disclosure: Dugan has filed several objections into the Summit Carbon Iowa Utilities Board dockets in opposition to the CO2 pipeline. She has neither sought nor received funding for her work. This is an opinion piece. During a February 7 interview, North Dakota radio host Scott Hennen asked Bruce Rastetter to answer the following question posed by a listener: Can the carbon in CO2 be separated and just store the carbon?
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Nancy Dugan
Des Moines City Hall, photographed by James Steakley in 2009. Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at [email protected]. The Iowa legislature took an important step last week in voting to toughen penalties for state and local officials who violate a key government transparency tool, Iowa’s open meetings law.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Nancy Dugan |Adam Zabner
State Representative Joel Fry floor manages a bill on raising elected officials’ salaries on April 18Before adjourning for the year on April 20, the Iowa Senate did not take up a last-minute bill from the House that would have given state legislators and statewide elected officials a $10,000 raise, effective 2025. Lawmakers should not wait until the closing days of the next session to address this issue.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bruce Lear |Nancy Dugan |Laura Belin |Adam Zabner
From left: Iowa House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl, Florida Governor RonDeSantis, Iowa Senate President Amy Sinclair, Governor Kim Reynolds. Photo first published on Reynolds’ political Facebook page on December 18, 2023. 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.
