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Sep 20, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Dave Leshtz |Stephen G. Bloom |Rick Morain |Nick Covington
Dual readings in Tama remind us: Iowa's state capitol is not a church Friday, Sep 20 2024 0 Comments Dave Leshtz is the editor of The Prairie Progressive. The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. –John Milton, Paradise LostIt was a beautiful day for a drive, with big clouds billowing in a vast Iowa sky. My destination was the town of Toledo, where an “Iowa 99 County Bible Reading Marathon” was taking place on September 16.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Stephen G. Bloom |Rick Morain |Nick Covington |Laura Belin
Stephen G. Bloom is a professor of journalism at the University of Iowa. He is the author of seven nonfiction books, the latest of which is The Brazil Chronicles, due out in November. For anyone who grew up in Iowa during the 1940s or ’50s, or was a student at the University of Iowa in the 1960s, the name Bobby Washington will ring a bell. Bobby was the Caitlin Clark of his generation. Just like Caitlin, if you mentioned just the name Bobby, everyone knew who you were talking about.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Rick Morain |Nick Covington |Laura Belin
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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Sep 18, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Lora Conrad |Rick Morain |Nick Covington |Laura Belin
Lora Conrad lives on a small farm in Van Buren County. The American Hog Peanut is also called American Wild Peanut. Amphicarpaea bracteata is a vining annual plant in the Pea family (Fabaceae). It can also be a short lived perennial. It is somewhat unusual for a legume in that it thrives in shady areas. Amphicarpaea is reported to mean either “two kinds of flowers” or “two kinds of fruit,” both of which it has.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rick Morain |Nick Covington |Laura Belin |Dan Guild
Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. I’ve been muddling through some thoughts about national politics after the November 5 election. I will no doubt have more, but this week I have one for each party. Presidential candidate Donald Trump is already strongly suggesting that if he loses to Vice President Kamala Harris, it will be because of election fraud. That’s extremely unlikely.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Nick Covington |Laura Belin |Dan Guild |Henry Karp
Nick Covington is an Iowa parent who taught high school social studies for ten years. He is also the co-founder of the Human Restoration Project, an Iowa educational non-profit promoting systems-based thinking and grassroots organizing in education. In 2022, following a long culture war fight in my own suburban Iowa school district, I resigned from a job I had held for a decade as a high school social studies teacher.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Lora Conrad |Rick Morain |Nick Covington
Full Iowa wildflower Wednesday archive Saturday, Jun 15 2024 1 Comment Bleeding Heartland’s weekly wildflower series has grown far beyond what I envisioned when I published the first Iowa wildflower Wednesday in March 2012. The search for material to publish in the spring, summer, and fall has taken me to many parks and nature preserves I’d never explored.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Richardson |Rick Morain |David P. Tilly |Nick Covington
Randy Richardson is a former educator and retired associate executive director of the Iowa State Education Association. On January 26, a month later than planned, the Iowa Department of Education released a summary of the annual certified enrollment numbers for Iowa’s public and private K-12 schools. The agency’s news release also provided our first look at the impact “education savings accounts” (also known as school vouchers) have had on public school enrollment across Iowa.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Rick Morain |David P. Tilly |Nick Covington |Laura Belin
Left: John Quincy Adams, depicted by painter Thomas Sully. Right: Andrew Jackson, also painted by Thomas Sully. Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. The 2024 presidential election will in all probability be decided in the usual fashion, with a candidate receiving a majority of the electoral votes declared the winner. That’s the way it’s been done in almost all 109 presidential elections since the nation’s founding.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Daniel Clark |Nick Covington |Laura Belin |Bernie Scolaro
This column by Daniel G. Clark first appeared in the Muscatine Journal on August 23, 2023. Above: Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune, September 23, 1919. Recently I told John Jelly’s 40-years-later account of a “colored man” bringing food for a “freedom seeker” hidden on a farm in northern Muscatine County in 1855. From not much evidence, I concluded that man must have been William H. Greenway (1840-1930).
