I took over a hundred pictures of the Decorah/Freeport area, Monday. I haven’t had a chance to edit them yet, but thought I’d share so you could see what was happening around here.
I spent some time downtown, Monday, and you could feel the tension and fear. Decorah dodged the [...]
The river here is at record high level. My old neighborhood is under mandatory evacuation, just over an hour ago. Scooter's folks have 4' of water in their basement and the river is creeping up to the top of the dike. His brother's family is stranded at their house on [...]
Can you believe it? We’re two days from the State Primary. It’s been a long several months of campaigning, and now the rush of last minute candidate advertising is filling mailboxes, newspapers and airwaves.
We’re in a unique position in northeast Iowa - four Democratic candidates for [...]
Indiana
McCain 77%
Huckabee 10%
Paul 8%
Romney 5%
N.Carolina
McCain [...]
Becky is looking forward to meeting Winneshiek Democrats and discussing her plans and reasons why she is running for [...]
We have a very full roster of candidates for the upcoming Primary, and you may be thinking, “Wouldn’t it be great if I could ask some questions and hear the candidates’ views?” Well, now you can!
Local Democratic candidates will be attending a forum to answer questions from area voters, [...]
Bravo, Rick! Your recent column “Universal health care is a moot point if you're dead” will surely go down as one of the greatest auditions ever submitted to FOX News Channel. It had everything we've come to expect [...]
In November, due to the Thanksgiving holiday, they will meet on Thursday, November 15th, at [...]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.I'm no law-talky person, but this seems rather [...]
A coalition of Iowa environmental and union activists on Tuesday called on Iowa's congressional delegation to back vigorous action against global warming. The group urged Iowa's five congressmen to support the Safe Climate Act, a federal bill that aims to cut the United States' global warming [...]
"By vetoing this legislation, I am sending an important message: that we must never forget the lesson of September the eleventh. We will not surrender - instead we will fight to replace [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today announced strong opposition to provisions in the House "Farm Bill," H.R.2419 that would end federal meat inspection. The bill, [...]
Polish Legion of American Veterans USA, national executive director Ben Filipczyk:
“This year the U.S. Senate enthusiastically passed S.J. Res. 5, proclaiming Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary U.S. citizen posthumously. This meaningful legislation now only awaits the [...]
The Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act is named for an Army Reserve member from Grundy Center, Ia., who took his own life after returning from 11 [...]
Gov. Chet Culver on Wednesday accused the Bush administration and Republican Rep. Steve King of choosing politics over children by opposing a proposed expansion of a health insurance program for children.
"In the most powerful, richest nation [...]
Brooks:
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- Obama/Giuliani - +8
- Obama Thompson - +10
- Obama/Romney - +10
- Edwards/Giuliani [...]
Season Premiere tonight! New characters? New plot lines? I can’t wait!
I won’t be liveblogging it but Tim Kring and Jack Coleman will be liveblogging during the show, at the NBC site.
[...]Produced at less than $1 per watt, the panels will dramatically reduce the cost of generating solar electricity and could power homes and businesses around the globe with clean energy for [...]
From The Courier:
From coast to coast, independent voters tilt tellingly toward Democrats in their opposition to the Iraq war, their displeasure with Bush and their feeling that the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to data from recent Associated Press-Ipsos [...]
From The Register:
Washington, D.C. - Iowa's senior Republican senator expressed frustration with the White House, and Gov. Chet Culver warned that the state might not be able to pay October premiums as the deadline for renewal of a popular children's health [...]
"Something needs to be done," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. "The presidential nominating process is too important to our democracy to allow the pell-mell scramble to continue."
Feinstein has thrown her support behind federal legislation creating [...]
Superintendent Michael Haluska says the [Struxtures] architectural firm is studying whether parts of the school can be salvaged for use on the Trout Run Trail.
WASHINGTON - The Senate narrowly rejected legislation on Wednesday that would have given military detainees the right to protest their detention in federal court.
The 56-43 vote [...]
Iowa Governor Chet Culver is in Europe this week for several renewable energy events. Culver says one of the key events is a panel and conference on wind energy. Culver says [...]
About 60 people attended the pro-troop rally in Des Moines, which was the 20th stop on a 27-city tour that will end in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15.
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Washington, D.C. - A Republican congressman from Iowa said Monday that the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq should happen sooner than a midsummer 2008 date recommended [...]
They are not here. And we, we are the Others
Who walk by ourselves unquestioned in the sun
Which shines for us and only for us.
For They are not here.
And are made known to us in this great absence
That lies [...]
Today's the day. If you live in the Decorah School District, you have an opportunity to cast a vote and preserve a major part of Decorah's history. The polls will be open at Decorah Sr. High until 8pm. Hometown [...] 
"American veterans reform? Anyone for helping the veterans? Minutemen?" he asked as people trickled into the arena.
[J. Michael] Haskins, director of the Johnson County chapter of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, was [...]
Planergy Inc., of Woodbury, Minn., has been collecting gas from the city of Waterloo's sewage treatment lagoon in the Northeast Industrial Park and using it to power a boiler at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant on North Elk [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa - The cost of health care in the U.S. is putting a pinch on many family farmers and ranchers who are struggling to pay high premiums and out-of-pocket expenses, according [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) --- Ethanol producers have friendly government policies to thank for the current boom in the corn-based alternative fuel and will need more help from Washington to keep from going belly up in a few years, says a new [...]
As you may know, for more than a year, now, I have been working to pass the Joshua Omvig Suicide Prevention Act. This bill - which is named for a soldier from Grundy Center, Iowa, who took his own life after returning from Iraq - directs [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today announced strong opposition to provisions in the House "Farm Bill," H.R.2419 that would end federal meat inspection. The bill, which recently passed the House, lowers food safety [...]
By the end of this year, Starbucks will no longer serve dairy products that contain Posilac, aka rBGH or rbST, the growth hormone manufactured [...]
From The Swamp:
Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, one of [...]
"Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary," Richardson, New Mexico's governor, said at the Northwest Iowa Labor Council Picnic. "And I want you to know who was the first candidate to sign a pledge not to campaign [...]
