by admin | Jul 29, 2009 | Education, Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Politics & Government
Governor Chet Culver isn’t calling for a state legislator’s resignation, but the governor says he expects fellow Democrat Kerry Burt of Waterloo to be facing not one but two criminal cases soon. Burt was elected to his first term in the Iowa House this...
by admin | Sep 1, 2008 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Politics & Government
Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, says he talked with House leaders and others about disaster relief almost every day while he was at the party’s national convention in Denver last week. The talks included a visit with Iowa Democrats by...
by admin | Aug 29, 2008 | News
The Democratic National Convention may be over, but the general election battle is still ahead. Some of the state’s most involved Democrats have big plans for the 66 days that lay between now and November 4th.Twenty-three-year-old Robert Jarvis of Oskaloosa was...
by admin | Aug 28, 2008 | Politics & Government
As Barack Obama prepares to formally accept the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nomination, some of the Iowans in Denver to watch the spectacle are reminded of the Obama campaign’s spartan beginning in Iowa. Nancy Bobo of Des Moines was...
by admin | Aug 28, 2008 | Politics & Government
A national union leader sent a zinger toward Governor Chet Culver this morning during a public meeting of Iowa Democrats in Denver. Gerald McEntee, president of AFSCME — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, noted that both...