Editor's note: Mary McBee passed away on Saturday, Aug. 30. Huge corporate-owned farms and corporate animal factories are not “farms.” They are industries created solely to bring in highest profits while avoiding responsibility for all damages caused. For decades these industries have ...
Do you think Iowa Att. Gen. Bird would justify Me or any common Citizen for shooting and killing another person who was carrying a toy or fake gun? Has she ever found anything wrong with any police killings of Citizens? The gestapo is never wrong. Republican lawmakers have given police so much ...
I have the same upsetting concerns felt by all of us — for example, cuts in Medicare, growing the national debt, rising prices — all are really worrisome. But I must refer to another concern where our representatives and senators have let us down. The federal funding for Iowa Public TV ...
Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) changes the lives of nearly one in eight people in central Iowa, around 25,000 people per year. Poverty isn’t unique to us—it touches nearly every town and county in the U.S., but what is happening in Tama County, Iowa, isn’t the same as in Dallas County, ...
Dictator Trump called in the National Guard to protect people in Washington D.C. The same dictator Donald Trump pardoned people who attacked the U.S.A. Capitol. When will Ashley Hinson, Dean Fisher and other Republicans stop kissing Trump’s butt? I can't wait for the day dictator Donald Trump ...
There used to be a Russian Colony just north of San Francisco, which was part of Mexico, in the early 1800s. With President Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska, which was itself bought from Imperial Russia, it's all leading up to a importination of renewed Russian expansion. Feeding into the ...
“It’s horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment,” Ansel Adams once said. Later, Bill Moyers clarified the problem being that the power of money trumps the power of democracy, meaning that a democratic form of government inevitably bends to the will of the ...
We’ve launched over 4,000 satellites into space and now have huge numbers of operable and defunct satellites along with other human-sourced junk continually and densely orbiting our planet. We’ve badly polluted and over-fished our massive and irreplaceable oceans. We’ve managed to poison ...
I am a proud American, and there was a time when I felt an even deeper pride in our country. Like many people, I didn’t always appreciate paying taxes — especially when the difference between gross and net pay is so noticeable. But as I matured, I came to understand the critical importance ...
Randy Veenstra running for governor say he wants to be like Trump. Veenstra when will you pay a porn star to keep her mouth shut like Trump? Veenstra when will you bad mouth fellow republican, governor Reynolds like Trump did? Veenstra when will you declare bankruptcy multiple times like Trump ...