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The middle class struggles because our elected representatives, such as 1st District Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, do not work for us - We the People.
Miller-Meeks supported privatizing …
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Trish Nelson, Iowa City
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4/16/25
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Last weekend, more than three million people across 1,400 cities and towns sent a message: Stop the assault on our government.
We haven’t seen this kind of public resistance to our own …
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Suzan Erem
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4/9/25
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The 82nd Indivisible group that I belong to believes that libraries protect intellectual freedom.
It was predicted, with the advent of the internet, that libraries would disappear completely. …
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Jennifer Sotelo
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4/9/25
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“First They Came For”
This poem, written as a confessional by Pastor Martin Niemöller in 1946 was his coming to terms with his failure to speak out against the Nazis during what …
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Larry Hodgden
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3/26/25
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What kind of man bullies a Quaker? Berates a disabled retiree? Badgers a veteran?
What kind of man stands in front of voters here at home and says, “Everybody knows glyphosate causes cancer” …
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Jeanette Wigim
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3/26/25
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Pushback is growing against the wholesale firing of federal employees in the VA, FAA, National Park Service, Federal Arsenals, US Geological Survey and other public agencies. The head of the …
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Jim Glasson
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3/19/25
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Some good news this week. Sen. Kerry Gruenhagen and Rep. Bobby Kaufmann stated at their Stockton listening post Saturday they oppose all public library bills moving through the statehouse. These …
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By Suzan Erem
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3/5/25
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I was so grateful for a successful exercise in democracy at the listening post in West Branch. People could talk without being harassed. Strangers from across the political spectrum even discovered …
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Suzan Erem
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2/11/25
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While our national politics pull us apart with high-voltage rhetoric, groups of local people are gathering to seek common ground around local issues.
The newly-constituted 82nd Indivisible is a …
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2/5/25
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Donald Trump is a ____ ?
While hard to answer in one word, perhaps we have to return to the playgrounds of our youth to find the right one. As an adult we can recognize and name his being a …
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By Clara Oleson
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1/15/25
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Phil Wiese deserves our support to be our Iowa House Representative. Phil knows that public dollars (your taxes, right?) should support our public schools instead of subsidizing private schools which …
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10/2/24
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This is Teamsters Local 238 endorsement letter for Muscatine County supervisor candidate Kim Schneider.
The executive board of Teamsters Local 238 has endorsed you in your race for the Muscatine …
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10/2/24
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This is an update to the situation involving the Fire Department, Rural Fire District and the City of West Liberty. All indications are that City Hall (the city manager and attorneys) is putting more …
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5/28/24
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