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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Harkin Interviewing Democrats for U.S. Attorney

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Iowa Senator Tom Harkin is apparently doing a little interviewing during his weekend in Des Moines . A source close to the senator confirms...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

McCain's Top 10 Porkiest Projects

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(Photo courtesy: http://www.ehponline.org/ ) Republican Senator John McCain isn't quite showing the love to the state that helped to se...

Chuck Grassley for Governor

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But first, the matter at hand. Our photojournalist was shooting close ups of Governor Chet Culver signing the allowable growth bill at Des M...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Polk County Republicans' New Leaders

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I'm trying to catch up on some news. My laptop got zapped by some type of virus, xp-police or something like that? It apparently alerts ...

Chris Matthews: Oh, God

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MSNBC's Chris Matthews is again causing a stir about the liberal leanings of his cable network's prime-time programming. Mathews utt...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Chuck Grassley, the Tweeter

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The Politico just ranked Iowa Senator Charles Grassley as the seventh most influential "tweeter" in America. Not bad for a 75-yea...

Iowa Republicans Target Appel

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Not exactly sure what this means...but... Iowa Senate Republicans sent out two releases on the idea to have us elect a new president based o...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

The Insiders

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In case you missed Channel 13's "Insiders" on Sunday (like anyone would miss it, right?), there's a link on our website. J...
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Republicans Claim Victory on Prevailing Wage

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Iowa Republicans weren't doing cartwheels in the house chamber today. But they're definitely starting to claim victory now that the ...
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Statehouse Sleepover

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It's 10a.m. as I write this. That means (I think) this prevailing wage/sit-in/sleep-in at the Iowa statehouse may be down to its final t...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

As the Prevailing Wage Turns

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It's day three of the prevailing wage sleepover at the Iowa statehouse. The vote still stands (as of 3pm) 50 "for" and 47 ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Prevailing Wage Sleepover

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Who blinks first at the sleepover standoff at the Iowa statehouse? Or who showers first? As it stands tonight, the vote on the prevailing wa...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Prevailing Wage Doesn't Prevail

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I think we can call this one a "stunner". The prevailing wage bill at the Iowa statehouse the Democrats were trying to push throug...
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Prevailing Wage Debate Friday

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Today is Friday. And apparently the Iowa legislature will work today. Friday. The controversial prevailing wage bill was supposed to get deb...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Chicago Tea Party?

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So how do you feel about all those federal bailouts? CNBC's Rick Santelli is all kinds of fired up about them. Have you seen what he did...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

ITA Layoffs

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Taxpayers were incensed about financial institutions taking their bailout money and then still taking those fancy, schmancy trips. Today, we...
Monday, February 16, 2009

RIO Getting Pay Cuts

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What exactly is going on at the Rebuild Iowa Office? And what was or wasn't going on for the past five months or so? The last several w...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Boeyink and Sterzenbach

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D-a-v-e P-r-i-c-e. I used to worry it's too simple. Maybe I need a better "tv name", I wondered. But I bet you have no proble...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Kiernan Criticizes King

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New Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan had said his priority was to get Chet Culver re-elected as governor. In a release today, ...
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Representative Burt's Arrest

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Could someone please make sense of this? One of the new Iowa legislators, Kerry Burt, a Waterloo Democrat, apparently may or may not have be...
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