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Jun 28, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Charles Bruner |Dan Guild |Nate Willems
Charles Bruner served in the Iowa legislature from 1978 to 1990 and was founding director of the Child and Family Policy Center from 1989 through 2016. For the last six years, he headed a Health Equity and Young Children initiative focusing on primary child health care for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The movie came first (the live debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump), but I would also urge people to read the book—that is, the full CNN debate transcript.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Dan Guild |Nate Willems |John Kearney
Dan Guild is a lawyer and project manager who lives in New Hampshire. In addition to writing for Bleeding Heartland, he has written for CNN and Sabato’s Crystal Ball, most recently here. He also contributed to the Washington Post’s 2020 primary simulations. Follow him on Twitter @dcg1114. This post updates a piece I wrote in 2020. At this moment the race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is close; you could argue it is the closest in U.S. history. To say it is unique is to state the obvious.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Nate Willems |John Kearney |Rick Morain
Nate Willems served in the Iowa House from 2009 through 2012 and practices law with the Rush & Nicholson firm in Cedar Rapids. This essay previously appeared in The Prairie Progressive. A single mom works as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) in a hospital. One night, she is assigned to give a shower to a patient who has dementia. As she starts to shower him, he growls. He calls her a Nazi. She tries to calm him. He calls her a Nazi again and louder.
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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.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Nate Willems |Laura Belin |Nancy Dugan |Bruce Lear
Nate Willems served in the Iowa House from 2009 through 2012 and practices law with the Rush & Nicholson firm in Cedar Rapids. This essay previously appeared in the Prairie Progressive. In August 2019, I filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of several current and former employees of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. We claimed UIHC was violating Iowa law by holding on to certain wage payments for too long before paying. As UIHC had a common payroll practice, we sought to certify a class action.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Norman Sherman |LaNisha Cassell |Nate Willems |Althea Cole
In addition to all the well documented attempts by the CO2 pipeline companies to use eminent domain, coercion and public influence through advertisement to ram their pipes through the state of Iowa and adjacent Illinois, South and North Dakota there is the very real danger potential of CO2 leakage should the succeed. A well written article by Allan Childs and presented to the Iowa Utilities Board on Oct.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
desmoinesregister.com | Nate Willems
Creative, collaborative public employees willing to work with common purpose against dumb management decisions still may have some rights in the state of Iowa. Nate WillemsGuest columnistNate Willems practices labor law in Cedar Rapids. This piece was originally published in the Prairie Progressive. In 2017, Iowa Republicans rewrote our public sector collective bargaining law, Chapter 20, dramatically taking away the rights of Iowa public sector workers to bargain a contract.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Charles Bruner |Scott Syroka |Jim Chrisinger |Nate Willems
Charles Bruner served in the Iowa legislature from 1978 to 1990 and was founding director of the Child and Family Policy Center from 1989 through 2016. For the last six years, he headed a Health Equity and Young Children initiative focusing on primary child health care for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Democrats prioritize investing in children but don't stress the importance of parents in raising the next generation. Republicans do the opposite. The electorate wants both.
