As communities in Iowa and Illinois consider the possible transformation of the Thomson, Ill., prison into a federal “supermax” facility, Florence, Colo. journalist Bob Wood’s insights about his own community’s supermax facility shed light on the proposal’s potential impacts.
Edgar: Thomson likely would be safe
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Quad City Times
What Giuliani 2012 Would Look Like
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Marc Ambinder
What Giuliani 2012 Would Look Like
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The Atlantic
What’s unfair to residents of coal-dependent states?
11/20/09 11:34 AM
Bleeding Heartland
TIR Will Live Blog Jefferson Jackson Dinner on Saturday
11/20/09 7:57 AM
The Iowa Republican
Roxanne and Her Special Interests
11/20/09 5:29 AM
The Iowa Republican
Chuck Norris Opens His Home to Vander Plaats for Fundraiser
11/20/09 5:01 AM
The Iowa Republican
Ex-ISU coach Gibbons to run for Boswell’s seat
11/19/09 11:38 PM
Des Moines Register
Poll results increase donations for Branstad
11/19/09 11:18 PM
Des Moines Register
Zaun also will run against Boswell
11/19/09 9:07 PM
Bleeding Heartland
Jose Antonio Vargas: Palin Online — Palin’s Web Buzz Trumps Obama’s
11/19/09 8:04 PM
Huffington Post
State Senator to Challenge Boswell
11/19/09 7:29 PM
Roll Call
Joe Lieberman Is Hallucinating
11/19/09 2:25 PM
The Plank
Nathan Daschle: The GOP “Comeback” is Really a Throwback
11/19/09 1:43 PM
Huffington Post
Geithner, Republican Congressman Clash Over Bailout
11/19/09 1:32 PM
The Atlantic
Sholom Rubashkin won’t be heading back to court to face 72 counts of immigration-related charges after all.
Not only is U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin confident that the Senate Democratic Caucus will be able to block filibuster attempts on a health care reform bill, but he is looking forward to the jockeying that will come from both political parties once the bill is signed.
Harkin said he “can only hope” that Republicans who have opposed reform efforts will make the legislation a theme in their speeches on the campaign trail.
“I hope it is an issue next year,” he said.
According to health department officials, deaths in Iowa have mirrored the state population, with age groups and all major racial and ethnic groups being impacted. Nearly half of the deaths have occurred in adults between the ages of 25 and 49. Five of the deaths were among adults from age 50 to 64, while three deaths were in the 18 to 24 age group. In Iowa, there has only been one child death and one death for persons over the age of 64.
Moderate- and low-income Iowans pay a greater share of their income in state and local taxes than the rich do, according to a new report from two non-partisan research organizations.
Not only will the Senate be working weekends through December on health care reform legislation, but it could also spend the upcoming weekend in session, Sen. Tom Harkin told D.C.-based newspaper The Hill.
Iowa’s rural private drinking water wells “have several contaminant problems, some long-standing and some emerging,” according to the results of a two-year study released last week.
A jury in Sioux Falls, S.D., returned to the courtroom late Thursday afternoon and delivered judgment on former Agriprocessors manager Sholom M. Rubashkin: Guilty on 86 of 91 possible counts.
Rubashkin, who is the 50-year-old son of company founder and president A. Aaron Rubashkin, was convicted of all possible money laundering and mail, wire and bank fraud charges. He was also convicted on 15 out of 20 counts of failing to provide timely pay to livestock auctions and providers.
As the federal government weighs stricter rules governing the disposal of coal ash, and as awareness of the potential dangers in Iowa continues to increase, it is important to note that while health risks are a major concern, there are many others that must be considered.
There’s some good news, but there is also bad news in the way some students perceive their safety at Iowa schools.
A last-minute amendment to the health care reform bill that passed the U.S. House on Saturday is disruptive to the current ban on federal funding for abortion services and could lead down a slippery slope that prevents women from accessing services with their own money as well, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin said Tuesday.
Des Moines anti-abortion activist Dave Leach said Monday he was surprised but happy to hear from the media that Scott Roeder would pursue a necessity defense after confessing to the murder of Kansas doctor George Tiller.
Scott Roeder has confessed to the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller and plans to go forward with a legal defense promoted by Des Moines anti-abortion activist Dave Leach.
Des Moines civil rights attorney Roxanne Conlin has kicked off her 2010 campaign for the chance to take on Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley with a new Web video released Monday.
Government asserts that Rubashkin aided flight of Agriprocessors co-worker to Israel
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade has ordered that the Iowa meatpacking manager found guilty on 86 counts of fraud and money laundering will remain behind bars. Continue reading »
A TV and film star is throwing a $100,000+ fundraiser for a candidate for Iowa governor tonight, but the beneficiary isn’t the bleeding-heart Hollywood liberal you might expect. Continue reading »
Instead of asking conservatives to call home-state senators with pleas for votes against health care reform, the Republican National Committee is asking its membership to contact the offices of two Democratic senators deemed “critically important” to squashing any up-or-down vote on the reform bill. Continue reading »
The Register’s Kathie Obradovich reports that U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin will not make it to the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner in person tomorrow night because he’ll be busy trying to pass health care reform in Washington, D.C. In his absence, the party will play a video greeting from him during the event.
Perhaps more notably, Vice President Joe Biden will still headline the dinner (as far as we know). That will put him pretty far outside the Washington beltway as the Senate’s health bill is finalized.
Former Iowa State University wrestling coach Jim Gibbons and state Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, both announced intentions Thursday to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell in 2010. Continue reading »
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan’s attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply “insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administration’s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States,” an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday. Continue reading »
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday. Continue reading »
Now that Democratic leaders in the Senate have unveiled their health care reform plan, Democrats have “rounded third [base] and we’re heading to home,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Cumming, said Wednesday night.
During an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Harkin said no one in the Democratic caucus wants to be the person who derails health care legislation. Continue reading »
The question of possibly housing Guantanamo Bay detainees at a prison facility on the Iowa-Illinois border isn’t something that deserves consideration, according to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who said today that he opposes such individuals ever entering the country. Continue reading »
A little more than half of Americans believe health care reform would do more harm than good, according to a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released Wednesday.
The national phone survey of 772 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent, found that 52 percent believe government action would do more harm than good, and the remaining 48 percent supported change.
The poll showed a distinctly partisan split, as government action was preferred by 54 percent of Democrats, compared to only 40 percent of Republicans. Continue reading »
Those who immediately voiced opposition to a possible plan to move detainees currently housed at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay into a revamped facility on the Illinois-Iowa border should take time to research instead of offering knee-jerk reactions, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley said today.
“I’m not going to engage in political fear mongering about something that is very serious to the safety and security to the people I represent,” Braley said Wednesday afternoon on a conference call with reporters. Continue reading »
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