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1 week ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Sue Dinsdale
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes openness and transparency in Iowa’s state and local governments. He can be reached at [email protected]. A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there.
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1 month ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Kurt Meyer |Laura Belin |Matt Russell |Sue Dinsdale
"Any fool can destroy trees." Is Uncle Sam a fool? Monday, Mar 17 2025 0 Comments Kurt Meyer writes a weekly column for the Nora Springs – Rockford Register and the Substack newsletter Showing Up, where this essay first appeared. He served as chair of the executive committee (the equivalent of board chair) of Americans for Democratic Action, America’s most experienced liberal organization.
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1 month ago | 
bleedingheartland.com | Herb Strentz |Matt Russell |Laura Belin |Sue Dinsdale
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. Lutheran Services in Iowa is struggling after the federal government reneged on a $1.5 million commitment to fund the nonprofit’s work in welcoming and aiding legal immigrants and refugees to Iowa.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
telegraphherald.com | Sue Dinsdale
You can’t miss the non-stop political ads for Iowa’s House and Senate races. Many of the Republicans are crowing about raising teacher pay and commenting that Iowa Democrats voted against those raises … failing to mention — that for purely political motives — this provision was attached to the Area Education Agency bill that is unpopular with most Iowans.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
mississippivalleypublishing.com | Sue Dinsdale
This year, Medicare, the most popular health care program in America, turns 59. Over 65 million seniors and people with disabilities depend on Medicare for their health coverage. That number will only increase over the next decade as a record number of people turn 65, qualify for the program, and enroll in a health plan that provides everything from routine prevention to acute care for serious illnesses like cancer.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bernie Scolaro |Ryan Melton |Bonnie Ewoldt |Sue Dinsdale
Bernie Scolaro is a retired school counselor, a past president of the Sioux City Education Association, and former Sioux City school board member. A man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania on July 13. A bullet killed Corey Comperatore, who was sitting behind the candidate at the rally. Trump was wounded when something (bullet, glass, or shrapnel) grazed his ear, producing much blood.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Ryan Melton |Bonnie Ewoldt |Sue Dinsdale |Bernie Scolaro
Ryan Melton is the Democratic nominee in Iowa’s fourth Congressional district. These are his prepared remarks for the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration in Des Moines on July 27. You can listen to the speech as delivered here. At the Mills County Fair Democratic party booth in Malvern a couple Saturdays ago, a high school freshman to be asked me what motivates me to keep going despite the odds in our district, so he too could buy in and join the effort.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Bonnie Ewoldt |Sue Dinsdale |Bernie Scolaro |Laura Belin
Bonnie Ewoldt is a Milford resident and Crawford County landowner. Last month, Summit Carbon Solutions received a conditional permit from the Iowa Utilities Commission to construct a 680-mile CO2 pipeline across Iowa. The proposed pipeline, named the Midwest Carbon Express, will carry pressurized CO2 from ethanol plants across five Midwestern states to North Dakota, where Summit has said it will be permanently sequestered underground.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Sue Dinsdale |Bernie Scolaro |Laura Belin |Diane Porter
Sue Dinsdale is the executive director of Iowa Citizen Action Network and leads the Health Care For America and Lower Drug Prices NOW campaigns in Iowa. The most popular health care program in America turns 59 this year. Over 65 million seniors and people with disabilities depend on Medicare for their health coverage.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
desmoinesregister.com | Sue Dinsdale
Big drug companies’ power to raise prices faster than inflation has enabled them to inflate profit margins, making the pharmaceutical industry the most profitable sector in the United States. Sue DinsdaleGuest columnistSue Dinsdale is the executive director of Iowa Citizen Action Network. As we celebrate 58 years of Medicare, over 65 million seniors and people with disabilities depend on the program for health coverage, including routine preventive care, hospitalization and prescription medicines.
