Posted at April 30, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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The bond issue to renovate the Polk County Courthouse failed yesterday by just over 4,000 votes as only 43% of voters supported badly needed repairs and additions to the facility. It’s saddening that a small group of anti-tax zealots were able to take advantage of low turnout special-election in order to defeat a badly needed […]
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Posted at March 31, 2008 at 7:43 pm
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Ed Fallon today attacked a bill that would ban politicians paying themselves with campaign funds as “status quo politics at its worst.” The bill was introduced because Fallon had paid himself nearly $14,000 with campaign funds after the end of his 2006 gubernatorial bid, making Fallon one of the most notable politicians to line his […]
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Posted at March 30, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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David Yepsen was singing the praises of Chet Culver today for undermining efforts to allow teachers and other public employees the same rights as private sector employees. Apparently if this happens, there’s a chance that teachers may negotiate for smaller class sizes as part of collective bargaining and why would any Iowa school want smaller […]
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Posted at March 24, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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Posted at October 19, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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This week, it was shockingly revealed that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are 8th cousins. Apparently, if you go back far enough in history, random people are related each other. This was reinforced by Iowa Progress’s crack team of genealogists, which has spent countless hours in the archive (or minutes on Google) researched other such […]
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Posted at October 18, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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Via Yglesias: Mitt Romney shows a modicum of reason when discussing the cost of higher education and immediately gets pounced on by a goon at Cato. What did Mitt say to warrant the ire of the wingnuts?
“I like the idea of linking the level of support that we’re able to provide to young people going […]
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Posted at October 17, 2007 at 1:16 am
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Chase has the story - it looks like our friends at the Iowa College Republicans have decided to throw their own sweaty hat into the ring that is the Iowa blogosphere. If the first few days are any indication, it’s going to be a riot.
Here’s a gem from dreamboat and Executive Director Matt Beckstein:
I look […]
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Posted at October 16, 2007 at 3:05 pm
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I’ve written before about Rudy’s penchant for bullying and his contempt for civil liberty. And New Yorkers have long known that Rudy is, well, abrasive.
Here’s a favorite moment of mine from the Mayor’s radio show:
Gravel-voiced Joe from Dutchess County asked in 1999 why the mayor did not attack President Clinton at a fund-raising dinner. When […]
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Posted at October 10, 2007 at 1:25 pm
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Posted at September 28, 2007 at 9:02 pm
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