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The new Susan Knapp Health Center, the latest health care site under Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa, will open its doors Monday, July 2, at 2304 University Ave. in Des Moines. The facility was named for a Des Moines businesswoman in order to honor her leadership and support of PPGI. A gift from Knapp and [...]

Americans Against Escalation in Iraq will launch its “Iraq Summer” tonight in Des Moines under the guidance of Director Sue Dinsdale. Iowa native Dinsdale understands it’s an important step for the organization, but for her it’s one more stop on a long journey. “When you have a child in the military you expect them to [...]

Former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack is on a crusade built on friendship, wrapped with respect and bolstered by hope. It’s a quest she hopes will end in November 2008 with Sen. Hillary Clinton being named the 44th President of the United States. “I know a lot of people talk about [Clinton's] baggage,” Vilsack told [...]

Ten of Iowa’s decorated veterans have announced they are supporting the presidential campaign of Republican Sen. John McCain and have been named to his veterans advisory committee. They are Gen. Tom Bruner of Crescent, Gen. Russ Eggers of Des Moines, Major Gen. Merrill Evans of Waukee, Major Gen. Evan “Curly” Hultman of Waterloo, Gen. Bud [...]

Des Moines attorney and Iowa activist Kasey Kincaid is among 65 individuals serving on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s steering committee for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Kincaid has been a supporter of Clinton’s for some time. In 2000, he made political contributions to her U.S. Senate campaign regardless of his residence in Iowa. During that [...]

M.E. Sprengelmeyer from Rocky Mountain News has put together a group of bloggers for tonight’s Democratic presidential debate on PBS. I’ll be joining John Deeth, Jason Bane, Mike Hlas and, of course, Sprengelmeyer and will attempt provide intelligent representation for politically-minded women out there. (HA!) Those who want to follow-along or type-along — and goodness [...]

Carissa Picard openly admits she isn’t comfortable speaking in front of groups. Corner her privately afterward and she’ll confess to not eating anything beforehand for fear she might become physically ill. Publicly or privately, however, she’ll also tell you the message she carries is so important that she plans to spend the next few weeks [...]

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Pres. Bill Clinton will hold a rally at the corner of 2nd Street and Main in Davenport on Tuesday, July 3. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. Those who wish to attend will need advance tickets. Those can be obtained by phoning the Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee [...]

The filing deadline for Disaster Unemployment Assstance in 11 Iowa counties is Monday, July 2. Iowans living or working in any of these counties recently declared disaster areas may be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits under the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program. The affected counties are Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby, Taylor [...]

Those in and around Des Moines tomorrow have the opportunity of attending the launch of the ONE Vote Campaign. For all the nitty-gritty details, please click over the post on the ONE blog by Libby Pederson. For those who aren’t aware, ONE Vote is a bipartisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign [...]