I have reached the age where I don’t particularly enjoy being reminded I’m getting old. Another reminder came last week and hit close to home — close to my childhood home. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, died Thursday at age 95. He was the...
In a radio interview this morning with Simon Conway on WMT Radio, Republican Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett announced he will not seek reelection for mayor. Instead he is taking a very serious look at challenging Kim Reynolds for Iowa Governor in 2018. Secretary of...
One the greatest remaining frustrations from the past six years in Democratic politics has been that after the blowout losses in 2010 and 2014, the party did no real self-reflection or analysis of what went wrong. It seems we’ll finally get that effort, at least...
Seven of the eight candidates who are vying to lead the Iowa Democratic Party next year gathered to take part in a forum at Grand View University in Des Moines last night. The Political Party, an organization formed this year to engage young progressive millennials,...
The Iowa Democratic Party is set to select its next party chair on January 21 in what is expected to be a wide-open contest following the 2016 losses. Eight candidates are vying for the position: Sandy Dockendorff, Derek Eadon, Mike Gronstal, Bob Krause, Blair Lawton,...