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Earlier this year in Connecticut General Assembly budget discussions, House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire. Note the other [...]
A year ago tonight, the votes were counted and Barack Obama won the presidency and Democrats strengthened their holds in the two federal chambers. Republicans nationally and in Iowa licked their wounds, then looked ahead.
State Rep. Chris Rants, R-Sioux City, showing me a host of vote totals from various statehouse [...]
Republican governor prospect Terry Branstad announced today Statehouse veteran Tim Albrecht would be communication director for the former governor’s 2010 campaign.
Albrecht has been an active and rising Iowa Republican press aide, beginning with staff work for Steve Forbes presidential campaign in 2000 and most recently as the communication director for [...]
The race for three Sioux City Council seats will be decided two nights from now. The five candidates include the sole incumbent, Jim Rixner, former councilman and mayor Tom Padgett, 2002 and 2004 statehouse (Republican) candidate Keith Radig, developer John Fitch and political newcomer Ian Rappolt, who works at Boys [...]
IOWA CITY, IA. -- Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage Plans and Health Care Reform will be the three topics discussed on November 9th at 2:00 PM in the assembly room of the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center, 28 South Linn. This program, sponsored by the Johnson County Task Force on [...]
Newt Gingrich has endorsed New York Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the Republican running to fill the Congressional seat vacated by now Army Secretary, then GOP Representative, John McHugh. The problem here is that there is a better candidate running in this three-way race for the [...]
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