Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing By Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic. December 5, 2020 Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing2020-12-052020-12-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/doctor.jpg200px200px Above photo: A nurse holds a swab taken from a patient for testing at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Andy Abeyta / The Gazette / AP. The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility. Updated on December 4, 2020 at 10:22 a.m. ET. Iowa City, IA — Nick Klein knew the man wasn’t going to make it through the night. So the […]
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Iowa Tribe Creates National Park November 26, 2020 Iowa Tribe Creates National Park2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/iowa-e1606439455299.jpg200px200px Above photo: Alan Kelley, executive committee vice chairman of Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, left, and Lance Foster with the Tribal Historic Preservation Office walk the land the Nebraska Conservancy has transferred to the Iowa Tribe. Matt Dixon/The World Herald. The land on the Nebraska-Kansas border will allow the tribe to tell the story of its people, tribal officials say Lincoln, NE — The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is creating the nation’s largest tribal national park on a forested bluff overlooking the Missouri River and […]
A tree fell across vehicles at a home in West Des Moines after a severe thunderstorm moved across Iowa on Aug. 10. It was the costliest storm system in modern U.S. history. David Pitt/AP hide caption toggle caption David Pitt/AP A tree fell across vehicles at a home in West Des Moines after a severe thunderstorm moved across Iowa on Aug. 10. It was the costliest storm system in modern U.S. history. David Pitt/AP The powerful derecho that swept through the Midwest in August, focusing its destruction on central Iowa, is officially the most costly thunderstorm event in recorded U.S. history. […]
VT: There is much that isn’t being told here in this two week old murder case. Yes, they have now arrested 4 ‘ever-Trumpsters’ in the killing but the story is being suppressed. Police announced this was not a race crime because one of the 4 knew the victim. We know otherwise and would like to take a strong look at local police and their relationship with the killers, more than one of whom are police informants. 4 people have been charged after a Black man’s body was found burning in an Iowa ditch https://t.co/bWLIIs7eTI Definitely not a race crime. They have […]
Four people have been charged in connection with the death of Michael Williams, a 41-year-old Black man whose burning body was found in a ditch last week, Iowa authorities announced Tuesday. Officers said they believe Williams was strangled on Sept. 12, and his death was “not a random act of violence,” as he’d known at least one of the suspects for years. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said four suspects—Steven Vogel, 31, Julia Cox, 55, Roy Garner, 57, and Cody Johnson, 29—have been charged in connection with Williams’ death. Vogel, who is described as a “known acquaintance” of Williams, has […]
Last Monday, top officials on the White House coronavirus task force issued an urgent warning to governors across the country: Stop sending your COVID-infected college students home to their parents or risk another nationwide surge, just like the one that overwhelmed the South this summer. So far, the task force’s request for governors to talk to their college presidents appears to have made little difference. By the end of the week, some colleges in the country’s biggest coronavirus hot spots not only were still allowing students to go home after they’d been exposed or infected—they were ordering them to. “You need […]
A longtime employee of the Iowa Department of Public Health claims she was forced to resign after responding to routine public records requests about the coronavirus pandemic. In a press conference Thursday after she filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit, former IDPH spokesperson Polly Carver-Kimm claimed the governor’s office chose to use information from her department “in the way that would best serve the governor’s agenda and needs.” “I don’t want to say the public’s health is in danger because of this,” said Carver-Kimm, who worked for the department for more than a decade before being ousted in July. “I just feel […]
The largely maskless crowd on the South Lawn of the White House for President Trump’s speech accepting the Republican nomination happened to number about the same as the new COVID-19 cases that day in the state with one of the highest infection rates. Iowa reported a record 1,289 new cases on Thursday. But any comparison between that and the 1,000 plus supporters arrayed before Trump was not one he would have wanted anybody to make. He was busy diverting attention from the pandemic while talking about crime, declaring that America’s most dangerous cities in that regard are run by Democrats. “Nobody […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA—Jessica Tennyson, 34, stays inside her apartment on the southeast side of town as long as she can at night. Eventually, though, the heat is too much for her to bear, and she has to step out into the pitch-black street. “I’m always afraid that one of these times I’m going to be sitting out on my porch and somebody’s just going to go bang, bang bang,” Tennyson told The Daily Beast as she held up her fingers in a way that mimicked a gun. “And I can’t see where I’m going or where I can run.” Tennyson’s neighborhood […]
Kanye West’s presidential campaign has asked to appear on the Iowa ballot, keeping his 2020 bid alive as the entertainer called to meet with Donald Trump and Joe Biden to discuss “restoring the black community.” Representatives for the West campaign brought nominating petitions to the office of Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate on Friday, the secretary said in a tweet, adding that that would be reviewed to “ensure they meet the minimum requirements.” “The review of petition signatures to see if they meet minimum requirements has started but likely will not be complete until Monday,” Pate went on, sharing a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0a/1080126194_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_6bdd3656d981d74754399a73b348c3b2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008101080126315-videos-derecho-with-hurricane-force-winds-cuts-trail-of-destruction-across-us-midwest-/ Some 450,000 homes and businesses in Nebraska and Iowa are without power following the onslaught of a derecho that stretched across several states, downed trees and caused structural damage that is now being assessed. A derecho is a widespread, long-lived windstorm that is generally accompanied by rapidly moving showers and thunderstorms. The Weather Channel revealed Monday afternoon that winds as high 100 miles per hour impacted Nebraska and Iowa earlier that day, dumping buckets of torrential rain and aggressive gusts of straight-line winds onto areas such as Des Moines, Iowa – home to over […]
Facing a heavy burden from trade and the coronavirus, “Iowa’s just in a position to be in maybe more ready than other states to make a change” in November, says pollster J. Ann Selzer. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio Facing a heavy burden from trade and the coronavirus, “Iowa’s just in a position to be in maybe more ready than other states to make a change” in November, says pollster J. Ann Selzer. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio Bringing up the Iowa caucuses should come with a trigger warning for Iowa Democrats like Pat Copley. […]
Theresa Greenfield is a 56-year-old Des Moines real estate development executive who’s still small-town, girl-next-door-friendly. She’s also running for the United States Senate. Her style is so earnest, affable, and humble that talking to her the first question that comes to mind is: What’s a nice girl like you doing in a racket like this? Part of the answer lies with Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst. The last time many saw her, back when she first ran in 2014, she was a pig castrator on a Harley vowing to snip the private parts of the porcine influence peddlers and their senatorial prey. […]
A Black Lives Matter protester who tried to block a vehicle carrying Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R) by standing in front of it Tuesday said he was was shocked when Reynolds’ driver hit the gas instead of the brake and drove right through him. The protester, Jaylen Cavil, said he was “physically okay” after failing to block the governor. Jaylen Cavil protesting Gov. Reynolds, screen image. The Des Moines Register reported on the incident (excerpt): …A group of about two dozen Des Moines Black Lives Matter activists showed up to Reynolds’ public events in Steamboat Rock and Ackley, each about 90 […]
Protester Italia Marie Kelly was shot and killed in the Davenport, Iowa, late Sunday night/early Monday morning as the protest she was attending was winding down. It’s being called a random shooting, and was not a police related, so it did not receive national attention. Don’t expect the far left protesters to chant her name. WQAD reports: TRENDING: UPDATE: Looters Murder Retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn at City Pawnshop – Film it on Facebook Live – Then Loot the Store (VIDEO) Several dozen friends and family members gathered on Monday evening at the same spot Italia Marie Kelly was […]
The only member of Congress known for lamenting the decline of white Americans and making racist remarks about the size of immigrants’ calf muscles is out of a job next year. Rep. Steve King was defeated in a five-person primary Tuesday by a fellow Republican, Iowa state Sen. Randy Feenstra, who had received support from a national GOP establishment that finally invested deeply in an effort to oust King. Their success brings to an end the two-decade congressional career of a man who managed to make himself a notorious national figure and persona non grata within the GOP even during the […]
Rep. Steve King, shown here during a news conference in August 2019, faced criticism for his comments on abortion, including when he questioned whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP Rep. Steve King, shown here during a news conference in August 2019, faced criticism for his comments on abortion, including when he questioned whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest. Charlie Neibergall/AP After years of incendiary comments on race […]
Theresa Greenfield is a Democrat who is running for the United States Senate in Iowa. During a recent debate, she was asked a direct question about illegal border crossings. Instead of providing a direct answer, she deflected by going on and on about how our immigration system is broken. The Washington Free Beacon reports: TRENDING: BREAKING — “QUID PRO JOE’ — AUDIO Released of JOE BIDEN and Ukrainian President Poroshenko Discussing FIRING VIKTOR SHOKIN Who Was Investigating His Son — FOR IMF LOAN!! Iowa Democrat Refuses to Say Whether Illegal Border Crossings Should be Decriminalized Iowa Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield refused […]