by admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Education, Human Interest, Politics & Government
The president has nominated former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities. Leach, a Republican who represented eastern Iowa in congress for three decades, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency in August of...
by admin | Nov 12, 2008 | Politics & Government
President-elect Barack Obama is sending former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach to Washington for this weekend’s international summit. President Bush indicated before the presidential election that he’d invite the winner to attend the G-20 summit, a gathering of...
by admin | Oct 2, 2008 | Business, Politics & Government
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach says Wall Street grew more sophisticated than federal bureaucrats and that’s one reason the nation’s in the midst of a financial system meltdown. Leach is a professor at Princeton these days, but he’s carefully...
by admin | Aug 26, 2008 | Politics & Government
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, a Republican, took the podium last night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, touting the attributes of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican, says he’s...
by admin | Aug 26, 2008 | Politics & Government
Just about half the Iowa delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver are women and they’re invited to join a march today to celebrate an anniversary — the 88th anniversary of ratificaation of the 19th Amendment, the one that gave women...
