Guest op-ed from Jim Chrisinger, a retired public servant from Ankeny We focus so much on political campaigns that we lose sight of their purpose: the opportunity to govern. Governance often plays like an afterthought and most of us don’t see that much of a...
Guest op-ed from Jim Chrisinger, a retired public servant from Ankeny We focus so much on political campaigns that we lose sight of their purpose: the opportunity to govern. Governance often plays like an afterthought and most of us don’t see that much of a...
Guest op-ed from Hem Rizal, an educator who recently moved to Des Moines from South Dakota. Gov. Reynolds has already promised that she’d sign an executive order to restore the voting rights of Iowans with felony convictions. Now is the perfect time to deliver on...
Guest op-ed from Hem Rizal, an educator who recently moved to Des Moines from South Dakota. Gov. Reynolds has already promised that she’d sign an executive order to restore the voting rights of Iowans with felony convictions. Now is the perfect time to deliver on...
Guest op-ed from Jeremy Dumkreiger, an educator in Sioux City. A colleague and I started Iowa Educators for a Safe Return to School to allow educators in Iowa to discuss the lack of guidance from Gov. Kim Reynolds and her administration. That group quickly grew to...
Guest op-ed from Mike McCarthy, President Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans On July 14, 1965, the Older Americans Act (OAA) was signed into law. It responded to the need for community services, evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention programs, civic...
Guest op-ed from Erika Brighi of Marion, Iowa, a member of Advocates for Social Justice Black. Lives. Matter. We have heard these three words before — yet this time, the fight feels different. All lives matter, right? Yes. That’s the goal. But “all lives matter”...
Guest op-ed from Erika Brighi of Marion, Iowa, a member of Advocates for Social Justice Black. Lives. Matter. We have heard these three words before — yet this time, the fight feels different. All lives matter, right? Yes. That’s the goal. But “all lives matter”...
Guest op-ed from Ava Auen-Ryan of Iowa CCI and Emma Schmit of Food & Water Action. Iowa’s political leaders used the end of the legislative session to avoid accountability and push through widely opposed legislation. They proved, once again, that when it is in...
Guest post from Nate Monson, executive director of Iowa Safe Schools. On Monday, June 15, 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch that both sexual orientation and gender identity are protected classes under Title VII. This ruling...
