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Your Letters To The Editor
Progressives around Iowa are showing up on the opinion pages of their local papers. Here is a sampling. TheBurlingtonHawkeye.com Again and again Gov. Branstad shows his arrogance as he continues to...
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ALEC Readies Want List For Next Year
The American Legislative Exchange Council met in New Orleans in early August. Since ALEC wants to operate behind the scenes (or under a rock as I prefer) we have only bits and blotches of what happened...
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AttackWatch Launches, But Is It Good Strategy To Combat Lies With Facts?
Sadly, in this day and age of corporate media and the right wing propaganda machine, the truth is probably not enough to win the media wars. Research shows, and as BFIA has posted about previously...
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What The Hell Is A Person Supposed To Do?
Next week the so-called “Super-Congress” will deliver its verdict on whose throat to cut as a sacrifice to the gods of austerity. It is at times like this that a citizen feels so helpless that they...
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Cedar Valley Voices – The Funnel and Women’s Rights
Larry Hodgden of Tipton is among a group of writer’s who provide an alternative voice to Rep. Kaufmann’s column is the small town papers around Iowa City. He has graciously consented to allow me to...
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The “Dickens” You Say
Today’s guest post is by Larry Hodgden of Tipton Iowa. Larry is a retired Viet Nam era veteran of the USAF. He and his wife of 40 years, Sharon, have three children and seven grandchildren who keep him...
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Letters To The Editor: Don’t Be Shy!
Folks, I am a big believer in using the newspaper’s Letters To The Editor section to make sure the public knows we exist and that we support our candidates and their positions. Through polling we know...
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Let’s Write Some Letters!
This election year the Republicans can dig deep into their nearly endless pockets. We don’t have those. What we do have is good policies, good candidates and access to newspaper Letter To The Editor...
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Keep Those Letters Coming
We are getting down to crunch time for the 2014 election. Actual election day is about 35 days away. But as most of you know the election in Iowa started last Thursday. Everyday from here forward...
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Kim Reynolds Supports TPP: That Should Scare You
The following is a letter to the editor from Don Paulson. Mr. Paulson is chair of the Muscatine Democratic Party I get it now! Kim Reynolds was pulling an early April Fool’s Day joke with her 3/31/15...
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Letters, We Send Letters!
From our friend Don Paulson in Muscatine commenting on the Iowa legislature: Dear Editor, The Iowa Legislature started a new session and already some Republicans are talking looney-tunes. One of...
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Letters, We Send Letters
One of BFIA’s favorite letter-to-the-editor writers, Don Paulson, shows us how it is done once again: Many Republicans have expressed “outrage” at Rita Hart’s decision to appeal the outcome of Iowa’s...
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Writing In Public In Iowa
My first letter to the editor of a newspaper appeared in the Quad-City Times on Dec. 30, 1974. I had just returned to my home town from Europe after college graduation. I did not like the culture I...
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I Write Letters To The Editor. You Should, Too
As Blog for Iowa notes our 20th year, I looked and found this is my 1,220th post here. My first post was on Feb. 25, 2009, and by any measure, that’s a lot of writing. What I value more, though, is I...
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