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If I could have a Christmas miracle it would be that the Iowa GOP would begin to listen to those of us who don’t put social issues as the most important issue to be focused on in the next legislative session. So many of us are hurting.  Our families are suffering.  We are putting on [...]

The fire blazing in the room at Java Creek Cafe was not the only heat when former Governor Terry Branstad visited with Linn County GOP activists.  Rumors were spreading like hot embers through the room that Paul Pate is a candidate for Secretary of State.  A couple of Pate’s former staff members were in attendance, [...]

Joni Scotter of Marion is a member of the Iowa Republican Party’s State Central Committee.  She has recently come under attack for choosing to be a member of Terry Branstad’s corridor campaign committee. The by-laws of the Party do not say anything about members working or volunteering for campaigns.  Much like anything else, there are [...]

Want to follow Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge as she travels the state promoting the I-JOBS initiative? Check out Patty’s new blog and you can do just that? From the press release: Lt. Governor Patty Judge is on the road today promoting the Culver/Judge I-JOBS initiative, and now Iowans can follow along from the comfort [...]

Ellen, who posts on the Choices Campus Blog, has spent the past semester studying in Sweden and brings word of a movement in that country — The Feminist Initiative (F!). It is a feminist political party, launched in 2005 in a country that has had a history of progressive policies in relation to gender. Here’s [...]

Mayor Elect Ron Corbett’s Listening Session with Flood Victims IBEW Building, Cedar Rapids, December 3, 2009 The following notes are taken from Tweets I sent out during the meeting.  I have rearranged them so that they are in order from first to last and corrected some of my spelling errors. The only elected officials that [...]