by Chris Simmons | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Education, Election, Featured
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 “washing machine capital of the world.” It was home to the Maytag...
by Linda Armitage | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Housing
Photo credit: Caelie_Frampton/flickr/cc I lost everything during the financial crisis. The government decided that the perpetrators of the crisis were “too big to fail” and bailed them out with our money. I was not bailed out. Today, a decade after the crisis, I’m...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Barb Kalbach Medicare For All Is A Matter Of Life Or Death For Rural America Rural hospitals are often the economic heart of a community. Worse, when minutes mean the difference between life and death, every hospital that closes leaves patients in...
by Hugh Espey | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
It’s time. After months of preparation, the Iowa People’s Presidential Forum will be this Saturday, September, 21, at noon in Des Moines. At Iowa CCI Action, we’re ready - our buses from all across the state are booked, and our questions are prepped. Bernie Sanders,...
by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 12, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
At the first two Democratic debates, the moderators from NBC/MSNBC and CNN based their questions about health care on Republican and corporate talking points. They acted as if the issue most people care about is the future of private insurance companies, rather than...
by Paul M. Barrett | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
Photo credit: igorstevanovic/Shutterstock.com In 2016, Russian operatives used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to sow division among American voters and boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. What the Russians used to accomplish this is called “disinformation,”...
