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 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...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 18, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Linda Armitage What A Homes Guarantee Means To Me 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...
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 Tim Wilkins | Sep 16, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE The Iowa People’s Presidential Forum Will Be A No-Stump Zone 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 – buses from all...
