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Is Iowa Owned By The Koch Brothers?
AFP’s Drew Klein is the only witness to Branstad signing the 2017 union busting bill. Out of the blue republicans in the Iowa senate once again struck a blow against democracy by rushing a budget bill...
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Iowa Policy Project Analyzes Senate Budget Bill
As I have said so many times before, when it comes to thorough analysis on things fiscal in Iowa, no one comes close to the Iowa Policy Project and its partner Iowa Fiscal Partnership. So when the...
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Backfill Cut Is BS
Editor’s note: This ‘on the money’ rant from a friend landed in my mailbox on Friday morning. It is quite self explanatory You can email your legislator and urge them to vote NO on SF 2081- backfill...
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Sunday Funnies And A Couple Of Comments
John Fugelsang has an interesting view on the next election. He would like to see Trump win if only to face the consequences of his reckless economic policies. Much like George W’s policies, Trump...
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Where Did The Money Come From?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post giving my understanding of how the Republican Party (aka now the Trumpublicans) had worked for 40 years to drive the country so deeply in debt that the government...
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Pennsylvania legislator lets loose with a very deserved rant concerning the fact that Republicans in the legislators were positive for corona virus while meeting with Democrats who were never told...
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Analysis Of Iowa Tax Proposals From Common Good Iowa
caption with article on commongoodiowa.org Many of you may remember that the old think tank of iowpolicyproject.org updated itself into commongoodiowa.org. As before, they are the gold standard in Iowa...
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This Week’s The High Five
As noted before, The High Five is a daily email from Progress Iowa that keeps the public abreast of what is going on in the Iowa Legislature. In this time of Iowa’s Republican domination , it is smart...
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Iowa Has A Choice For Governor
Iowa has a choice this fall. DeJear for Governor In a rather surprising editorial in the Des Moines Register last week John and Terri Hale wrote about encounters with former Iowans at various places...
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Radical Right Budgetary Shenanigans
As headlines of a monster of a storm bearing down on Florida early in the week and expectations of major revelations coming from another January 6th committee hearing captured most of the news...
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