Preserve public employees rights in Iowa 2017 session
Guest columnist Rick Moyle argues against dismantling Chapter 20 Iowa Public Employment Relations Act, highlighting 1974 enactment and current rights to collective bargaining for salary, benefits, hours, and safety. He urges readers to contact lawmakers, vote out officials who attack workers, and defend dignity for police, firefighters, teachers, and other public employees. Moyle, executive director of Hawkeye Labor Council AFL-CIO, Cedar Rapids.
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Romane Publican
State Assembly
Iowa General Assembly
Robert Ray
Iowa
Iowa Republican Party
Fick Moyle
Hawkeye Labor Counc
Afl-Cio
Cedar Rapids
Moyleoho
Change in America and Iowa policy under new presidency
Community letter argues Trump's presidency may bring change good or bad, cites GOP priorities and health care, criticizes Branstad's shifting Medicaid to private contractors then proposing a state run family planning program, warns of tax cut cycle and cuts to education and services citing Kansas as precedent.
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Donald Trump
GOP
Barack Obama
Russia
Trump
Obama
America
Terry Branstad
Planned Parenthood
Department of Human Services
Ben Hammes
Branstad
DHS
Iowa
Cindy Garlock
Cedar Rapids
Kansas
Boycotts as Free Speech and Consumer Choice
A columnist argues that boycotts are a form of speech and that the right to buy implies the right not to buy. Citing Historical and modern examples, the piece contends boycotts influence economics without muzzling expression, noting both effective and trivial campaigns across the left and right.
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Yiannopoulos
Simon & Schuster
Donald Trump
Starbucks
Obama clemency stance sparks debate over Lopez Rivera case
Charles Lane argues that President Obama’s recent clemency for Oscar Lopez Rivera, leader of the FALN, contrasts with Clinton’s 1999 mercy and raises questions about granting release to a violent offender. Lane notes Lopez Rivera’s long sentence, past escape plot, and the lack of remorse or renunciation of violence in this decision.
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Barack Obama
Obama
Army
Chelsea Manning
WikiLeaks
Oscar Lopez Rivera
Lopez Rivera
Armed Forces of National Liberation
FALN
Chicago
Leavenworth
Kan
FBI
Bill Clinton
Clinton
White House
Manning
Vietnam
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Commonwealth
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