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Reich ties destinies of middle class, U.S.

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Des Moines Register - By David Elbert - Sep. 26 (Review) - A new book by economist Robert Reich makes the case that the middle class is disappearing and that without it, the U.S. economy cannot recover to pre-recession levels.

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Scenes from Iowa's recession

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Michael Bugeja - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - They arrive at Gray's Lake Park in the morning, basking on borrowed time of a mild mid-November, realizing the winter can arrive any day like layoffs without warning. They are the unemployed, strolling with friends, partners or retirees, or sometimes alone. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone knows someone else out of work in what some call "The Second Depression." They are neighbors, acquaintances, family members, colleagues, friends. They may be you. They belong to "The New Poverty," people who followed the rules, paid bills and mortgages on time and whose lives were scuttled by Ponzi and subprime schemes happening far away.

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Just speaking of war can be a big battle

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Marc Hansen - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - Howard Hall wouldn't have agreed to this on his own. He's 93. He can barely hear. World War II was no fun. He never liked talking about it anyway. What's the point?

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Grassley voted for end-of-life help in 2003

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Des Moines Register - By Thomas Beaumont - Aug. 15 (News Report) - Sen. Charles Grassley made headlines this week when he criticized parts of a U.S. House bill that would pay for counseling for older Americans' final years, but in 2003, he supported legislation that included Medicare reimbursement for some end-of-life services.

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Unanimous ruling: Iowa marriage no longer limited to one man, one woman

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Des Moines Register - Apr. 03 (News Report) - The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays’ right to marry. “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,” the justices said in a summary of their decision.

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Basu: Will results validate idealism?

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Des Moines Register - By Rekha Basu - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - Like many, she is looking at this election not just as a make or break time for America, but for her own relationship with her country.

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House crafting farm bill proposals

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Philip Brasher - Feb. 12 (News Report) - Bush has threatened to veto any farm bill that is funded through new tax revenue and that doesn't restrict farm subsidies to wealthy growers and landowners.

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Tearful Romney may be eyeing image, experts say

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Erin Crawford - Dec. 20 (News Report) - Romney may be trying to soften his image because his closest competition, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is seen as so likable, said Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University.

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Corn ethanol goes from being a hero to a scapegoat

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:44:10 -0800

Des Moines Register - By David Elbert - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - How is it that the ethanol industry went from joke to hero to goat in less than three years? There are at least three things at work. One is that corn-based ethanol is not, and never has been, an efficient fuel. ... There has always been a question of whether the production of ethanol consumes as much, or more, energy than it delivers as a motor fuel. ... There are also water and food issues.

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Preachers feel heat of Grassley tax probe

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:53:46 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Jane Norman - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Nonprofits such as the Nature Conservancy, the Red Cross and the Smithsonian Institute all have endured uncomfortable probes by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, watchdog of the Senate. Now it's a much different group of tax-exempt operations - televangelists - that are having their spending practices questioned by the senator.

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Edwards offers specifics of his plans to fight AIDS

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:56:58 -0700

Des Moines Register - By Tony Leys - Sep. 25 (News Report) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards vowed Monday to step up the fight against AIDS in the United States and around the world. The former North Carolina senator promised to take several steps against the deadly disease. He said he would: - Increase resources to stop the disease among blacks and Latinos, who have higher rates of infection. - Expand Medicaid to let people infected with the AIDS virus receive coverage earlier in the disease process. - Ensure "age-appropriate" sex education and back programs that give clean needles to intravenous drug users. - Spend $50 billion over five years to increase the ability of people in poor countries to receive AIDS drugs and use U.S. trade policies to ensure that those countries can buy generic drugs at fair prices. Edwards, one of the leading Democratic candidates for president, unveiled the proposals in a speech at a health forum in Washington, D.C. He noted that he also supports universal health care.

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McCain takes aim at earmarks

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:13:22 -0700

Des Moines Register - By Tom Witosky - Aug. 05 (News Report) - Arizona Republican John McCain suggested Saturday that congressional earmarks such as $48 million for a proposed indoor rain forest near Pella contributed to last week's collapse of the highway bridge in Minneapolis. "We spend approximately $20 billion of fuel tax money on pork barrel earmark projects," McCain said. "Maybe if we had done it right, some of that money would have gone to inspect that bridge. Maybe the 200,000 people that cross that bridge every day would have been safer than spending $233 million of your taxpayer dollars on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."

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Press candidates on looming fiscal storm

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 08:43:36 -0700

Des Moines Register - By David Yepsen - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - One of the biggest problems facing the country in the next 50 years is an explosion of government debt. Experts call it a "tsunami" of red ink that will swamp the country as it borrows more and more to pay for all the obligations it has incurred for health care, retirement and other federal programs. The multibillion dollar cost of the war in Iraq is but a small part of the problem.

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Edwards leads in poll of likely caucusgoers

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:05:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Jane Norman - Dec. 14 (News Report) - ohn Edwards came out far ahead of the rest of the pack of possible Democratic presidential candidates in a poll of Iowa Democrats conducted in October by an environmental group and released Wednesday. Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina and the winner of the 2004 caucuses, was picked as the early preference of 36 percent of likely caucusgoers in the survey.

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