by Tim Wilkins | Nov 15, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Striking Teachers Are Fighting For Much More Than Paychecks While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 14, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Can Bloomberg Buy The White House? Michael Bloomberg’s first term as the mayor of New York began after the billionaire spent an incredible $74 million to get himself elected. He spent, in effect, $99 for every vote he received. Now...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 13, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ross Floyd Migrants Are Iowans, And We Stand With Them To his fellow migrants and to all of us at Iowa CCI, Jose Robinson Palacios is a hero. That’s because he saved the lives of dozens of children on his trek north from Honduras, carrying them one by...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 12, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sean Broadbent, Cheng-Sim Lim, Sasha Rappaport What It Takes To Win Medicare For All In Los Angeles And Beyond On Tuesday, November 5th, the Los Angeles City Council voted ten to one in favor of a resolution in support of the Medicare for All Act of...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 11, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans We Can Create The World We Want To Live In I’ll never forget one conversation I had in a little bar in Hagerman, about two hours east of where I grew up. I would start by saying, you know, “I just want to talk to you about some of these...