Stories

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 [...]

MoveOn.org Civic Action has released a new TV ad that it says will begin airing in Iowa tomorrow.  The ad, which satirizes opponents of a public health insurance option, is said to be targeted at Iowa because of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)’s role in the impending health care debate.

The full MoveOn.org press release is [...]

In a new television ad, the pro-same-sex marriage group One Iowa attempts to rally support for its cause by appealing to Iowans’ pride in their state and faith in its public institutions.

Justin Uebelhor, the organization’s communications director, told the Iowa Independent in an email that the ad would run for at least a week on [...]

4th district congressional candidate Becky Greenwald released her first television ad today.
The ad, which will play in the Des Moines and Mason City media markets according to a campaign press release, is a positive ad intended to introduce voters to Greenwald’s campaign.
Greenwald, a Democrat, hopes to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Latham in November.  Previous [...]

Well before a rally on immigration reform was set to begin, people with differing viewpoints converged in the small town of Postville. The opposing groups ultimately flung messages at one another across a downtown street.

What if you could do one-stop shopping for all your global peace and security policy analysis needs?

Nuclear proliferation and disarmament; United Nations strategy and planning; Middle East and Asian security; emergent powers; U.S. security; all of it. Ready for download and available from one policy research think-tank that is nonpartisan and stresses a multilateral approach [...]

Church bells around the town of Clinton, Iowa, were rung in remembrance of the start of the War in Iraq on Wednesday.
More videos are below the fold.

At the Democratic County Convention in Iowa City on Saturday, John Edwards supporters kept him in the running and kept alive their bargaining power at the district and state conventions.

Ever wondered about the intricacies of legislating on Iowa’s capitol hill?  We talked to Rep. Tyler Olson, D-Cedar Rapids about them in the context of the bill to ban smoking in public places, which he floor-managed.

In its busiest week of the legislative session, lawmakers at the Iowa Statehouse advanced dozens of bills through committee, sparing them from the so-called funnel-week deadline and keeping hopes – or fears – of their passage alive.

Below the fold: a video interview with Rep. Donovan Olson, D-Boone.