Watch this discussion of Polk County’s launch of the Central Iowa Source Water Research Assessment (CISWRA). The project aims to assess and come up with recommendations for water quality improvements. Iowa Farmers Union hosts a Lunch and Learn every week. Follow IFU on Facebook and Twitter.  Visit their website here ..read more

Check out this conversation with Melissa Vine, a Democrat running for congress in IA-03. Visit her website and follow on Facebook and Twitter ..read more

Check out this conversation with Lanon Baccam, a Democrat running for congress in IA-03.  Visit his website and follow on Facebook and  Twitter ..read more

This is so cool.  Hope you all can watch and share this awesome interview with President Biden.  While I’m not particularly a fan of Howard Stern, I’ve always noticed how comfortable guests seem talking with him and his musical guests always sound so amazing in his studio.  This was behind a paywall on Sirius. Great to be able to watch it via YouTube. Thanks to Howard Stern ..read more

This week was a fairly typical Iowa Press program except there were follow up questions and challenges because their guest was a Democrat for a change. The prize for worst lead in to a question in this episode came from Erin Murphy who said, “..obviously, former president Trump is popular here and democratic president Biden is not..” Followed by a pointed question as to how this was going to likely negatively affect Democratic down ticket races. What about the 759,061 Iowans that voted for Biden for president? Do we count for nothing? If you are looking for nuance, do not watch Iowa Press. Hou ..read more

This is just a reminder that the general election is six(6) months from today. Make sure your registration is up to date and make plans to help elect Democrats at all levels. If we don’t elect Democrats we will continue to watch rights such as women’s health care disappear. Rachel Maddow – one of the most thoughtful commenters on the political world of today – goes deep behind the headlines to expose what is driving our current state of affairs. What she tells us is quite simple and as old as humanity itself. We have a party that is corrupt to the core with a leadership that is corrupt to the ..read more

Well, look who finally decided to come back to work. Went out to buy Christmas presents. Must have went to Mars to find bargains. Just a reminder that there is a big election in 6 months from today. Get your plans in place. A reminder of why this coming election is so important. Authoritarian governments are bad for your health. Kent State 54 years ago yesterday (3 minutes) Another week of the corporate media trying to mislead us.  A) Despite the media trying to ignore it, what politician’s deadly encounter with her puppy kept cropping up everywhere? B) What first witness for the prosecu ..read more

As of today we are 54 years removed from the shootings at Kent State University in Ohio. Once again it becomes relevant as protests concerning the Israeli – Palestinian situation are being pushed hard by the corporate media.  Protests have always been integral to America’s functioning and the right to protest is enshrined in the constitution. Protests must remain peaceful, however. Right wing groups are attempting to exploit these protests trying to make the President look inept. He is on top of the situation President Biden addresses campus protests: Right wingers who live in a dreamwor ..read more

I do not know if this has been ballyhooed enough. Maybe some of you have heard of Project 2025. Maybe some of you have been sufficiently scared by this proposal to sound the alarms. But I do not think enough have been scared enough. This is a really frightening proposal and the extreme right is fully ready to put their proposals into practice almost immediately. Here is a video explaining some of the plans. This video has a little age, but I was trying to find one that was sufficiently serious about this plan to get people’s attention. (10 minutes) Hopefully this video will sufficiently awake ..read more

Nobody has the Republicans’ number quite like Hillary Clinton who was right about Trump early on and was ignored. Now look where we are.  We ignore her at our peril.  Looking ahead to November she said, “Expect them to shrink  the electorate, make it difficult to vote, confuse the electorate with flat-out disinformation and they will launch big surprises at the end.” On SCOTUS:  “What the majority is doing is what they were put on the court to do. They are implementing a right wing agenda… we got the judges that had been groomed to put into the pipeline to do what they are ..read more