Pat Rynard sits down for a fun conversation with Rob Barron and Judy Downs on the Steak Fry’s past and present as we approach the biggest Iowa Caucus event yet this weekend.
Ep115: Previewing The Steak Fry, The Biggest Caucus Event Yet
2020 is not 1937. A History Lesson On FDR And The Courts
By 1935, the New Deal was helping the American people and economy bounce back from the disaster of the stock market crash of 1929. National programs were putting people to work, building infrastructure like bridges, hospitals and schools and expanding access to electricity. The New Deal was popular and well-loved. In May 1935, it suffered its first losses in the Supreme Court. The biggest blow declared Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act, a key piece of the New Deal, unconstitutional. Roosevelt wasn’t happy. The first reaction many people have when 2020 candidates talk about expanding the Supreme Court tends to be […]
One Country Project Pushes Dems To Reconnect With Rural America
Hillary Clinton won just six total counties in all of Iowa in the 2016 presidential election. Trump took the other 93, often by large margins, including with 60% or 70% or more in many rural counties. In an effort to tamp down those lopsided margins in rural Iowa, One Country Project, an organization launched by former Democratic Senators Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly, has added J.D. Scholten to their team. “I learned from studying Berkley Bedell and Tom Harkin, and that was their thing. If they got out to the people, proved that they’re trustworthy, and proved that they’re going […]