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Nov 9, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Jack Hatch |Ed Tibbetts |Laura Belin |Patrick C. Swanson
Jack Hatch is a retired state senator and was the 2014 Democratic nominee for governor. As a well-used phrase suggests, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.”Our Democratic message was strong, and our attention to our deeply held values of equality, inclusion, and freedom was spot-on. But in Iowa, our organizational structure is off base. We lost seats in the Iowa House and Senate and lost two very close races for Congress.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Ed Tibbetts |Laura Belin |Patrick C. Swanson
Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. Recent news articles have reported on NexEra’s interest in restarting the Duane Arnold nuclear plant. We need to consider the consequences of such an action. Restarting a closed reactor in decommissioning status has never been attempted. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) admits there are no regulations authorizing the restart of a closed reactor.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Ed Tibbetts |Laura Belin |Patrick C. Swanson |Arnold Garson
Donald Trump expands footprint in Iowa's Mississippi River valley Friday, Nov 8 2024 0 Comments Third in a series interpreting the results of Iowa’s 2024 state and federal elections. Ed Tibbetts, a longtime reporter and editor in the Quad-Cities, is the publisher of the Along the Mississippi newsletter, where this article first appeared. Find more of his work at edtibbetts.substack.com.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Patrick C. Swanson |Laura Belin |Arnold Garson |Andy Johnson
Patrick Swanson has been restoring a Harrison County prairie. The fourth iteration of the multi-day LoHi (Loess Hills) Trek was held October 16-20 in Mills and Fremont counties of southwestern Iowa. This was my third LoHi Trek, joining about 45 others hailing from Colorado to Ohio, Minnesota to Missouri, and various points in between on this unique supported camping and hiking adventure.
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May 31, 2024 | 
jskfellows.stanford.edu | Patrick C. Swanson
How I Took an Improv Class and Learned to Stop Worrying“Don’t prepare, just show up.”- from the book ‘Improv Wisdom’ by Patricia Ryan MadsonOn the first day of my final quarter as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, I took a leap into the unknown. I woke up at 8 a.m., brushed my teeth, had breakfast — and biked to the Roble Art Gym on campus, where I walked into the beginning moments of a legendary Stanford class. I was about to take my first steps into the world of improv theater.
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May 31, 2024 | 
jskfellows.stanford.edu | Patrick C. Swanson
"Don't prepare, just show up."- from the book 'Improv Wisdom' by Patricia Ryan Madson On the first day of my final quarter as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, I took a leap into the unknown. I woke up at 8 a.m., brushed my teeth, had breakfast - and biked to the Roble Art Gym on campus, where I walked into the beginning moments of a legendary Stanford class. I was about to take my first steps into the world of improv theater.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Patrick C. Swanson
Rather than closing off, newsrooms should experiment with generative AIby Patrick Swanson and Kaveh WaddellThe mood is grim right now in journalism. Mass layoffs, consolidation and shrinking ad budgets are stoking worries of an “extinction-level event” for the media. There’s no question we’re in crisis. It’s alarming — but it’s deeply motivating, too.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
medium.com | Patrick C. Swanson
"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one." - Joan Baez This quote caught my eye as I walked into my first classroom as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford. It was carefully written on a whiteboard, an introductory message to prepare us for what was ahead. The class was called "Conversations in Management". As I took a seat, I smiled to myself. The words rang true to me.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Katie Byerly |Diane Porter |Lora Conrad |Patrick C. Swanson
# Wildflowers Wild petunias and their springing seeds Wednesday, Nov 27 2024 Diane Porter 0 Comments Note from Laura Belin: Bleeding Heartland’s Iowa wildflower Wednesday series is going on winter hiatus and will return sometime in the spring of 2025. You can find all past posts focusing on specific plants here, and posts featuring many wildflowers found in one natural area here.
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Patrick C. Swanson |Laura Belin |Randy Evans |Chuck Holden
Patrick Swanson has been restoring a Harrison County prairie. Over Memorial Day weekend this year, I joined the third installment of the LoHi Trek, a multi-day hike through the Loess Hills organized by Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development and other partners. I joined the inaugural LoHi Trek in 2021 through Monona County, and offered my reflection on that journey in an earlier Bleeding Heartland post. I missed last year’s trek and the follow-up “mini LoHi” hike in the fall.
