by Tim Wilkins | Sep 24, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant How Private Search Firms Skim Millions From Public Schools The education world was rocked in 2015 when Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was convicted and sentenced to prison for accepting kickbacks from SUPES, a private...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 23, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins The People’s Forum: Presidential Candidates Fresh, Not Fried “We are a force that our land and our people desperately need.” With these words, Barb Kalbach – registered nurse, fourth-generation family farmer and board chair of Iowa CCI...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
"We are a force that our land and our people desperately need.” With these words, Barb Kalbach – registered nurse, fourth-generation family farmer and board chair of Iowa CCI Action – opened the Iowa People’s Presidential Forum in Des Moines this Saturday. She was...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 20, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Chris Simmons College For All Means Dignity For All My name is Chris Simmons, and I want to tell you why we need – I need – Free College For All now. I grew up in Newton, Iowa, a small city east of Des Moines. For a hundred years, Newton was the...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 19, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ai-jen Poo Ask 2020 Candidates To Support Universal Family Care This Saturday at the People’s Presidential Forum, hosted by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund and People's Action, I’ll be joining Lou Ann Burkle — a Des Moines wife who...