Bear with me for a bit and let’s do a little pretending. Let’s assume a portion of the Democratic Party was high-jacked by some very left-wing radicals, beyond socialist and very dogmatic. Let’s...
In the middle of today's stunning news of indictments and guilty pleas in Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election collusion, a familiar name popped up this afternoon that Iowa...
I have told this story many times in print and on the air. Now it is even more important to repeat it. In the spring of 1966, my junior year at Yale College, a classmate of mine who would be...
Democratic Senator Matt McCoy and Representative John Forbes held a press conference last week and presented a simple, common sense health care solution for Iowans. Their proposal “Healthy Iowans...
This week Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer held an emergency conference call with a number of progressive organizations warning about the coming GOP tax scam plan. His message was...
Iowa public employee unions voted overwhelmingly in favor to maintain their existence this week, despite Iowa Republican politicians' best efforts to destroy them. Earlier this year, legislative...
Tom Steyer, the Democratic California billionaire, launched an in-your-face Trump impeachment ad campaign across the country this week. Timing and momentum is everything in politics. It certainly...
Details are tucked away in the distant crevasses of my memory about one of life’s teachable moments. That lesson has stuck with me for nearly 60 years. I wish I had that teachable moment on video...
That didn't last long. Iowa Senate Democrats met today to take the rare step of electing a new minority leader not even halfway through a campaign cycle. Senator Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids was...
Iowans won't be seeing too many TV ads for Novembers's municipal races, most of which are relatively low-profile affairs where not a whole lot of money spent. But one of the few they will watch...
