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Jul 9, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Bernie Scolaro |Laura Belin |Neal BakerDana Schuster

Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at [email protected]. Do you remember that phrase our nation’s founders wrote in the preamble to the Constitution 237 years ago? The one about forming a more perfect union? We have hit some speed bumps in that quest, a couple that would rattle your teeth. I wonder when, and how, or if, we are going to get back on the road.

Jul 9, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Bernie Scolaro |Laura Belin |Neal BakerDana Schuster |Al Charlson

Bernie Scolaro is a retired school counselor, a past president of the Sioux City Education Association, and former Sioux City school board member. My father is 95 years old, but you would never guess his age by watching him or talking to him. Unlike President Joe Biden. He shows his age, and like all presidents, has been aged by the job. In the president’s recent CNN debate against Donald Trump, Biden shuffled to the stage like the elderly man he is.

Jul 8, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Daniel Clark |Neal BakerDana Schuster |Al Charlson |Laura Belin

My MLK Day 1619 surprise Monday, Jul 8 2024 0 Comments This column by Daniel G. Clark first appeared in the Muscatine Journal on January 10, 2023. I braved slick roads to attend a Martin Luther King Day celebration in Iowa City at the historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Instead of the announced speaker, Professor Venise Berry who got stranded by weather, I got to hear a preacher whose name I didn’t know but whose face I thought I recognized.

Jul 8, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Jason Benell |Neal BakerDana Schuster |Al Charlson |Laura Belin

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. For many, the current political climate seems to have taken a distinct turn. The media has been ablaze with U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning the rights of kings—I mean presidents—in regard to the rule of law, as well as sweeping changes to how policy can be interpreted by different branches.

Jul 7, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Neal BakerDana Schuster |Al Charlson |Laura Belin |Dan Guild

Louisiana, keep your hands off my Commandments Sunday, Jul 7 2024 0 Comments Neal Schuster is the rabbi of Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Des Moines. This essay is the prepared version of remarks he delivered at a Shabbat service on June 28. Well, let’s see – what’s in the news? What’s in the news? Hmm, let’s see.