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Fork in the road (opens the original)
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As ranking member on the Iowa House Environmental Protection Committee in 2014, I went on a fact-finding bus ride to Hamilton County sponsored by the Iowa Soybean Association (ISA).<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="
You heard it here first (opens the original)
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Shortly before I retired from the Iowa House of Representatives in 2025, some local advocates, including me, got our band back together. We jump-started the Dubuque Area Land and Water Legacy.<source t
Stand by your plan (opens the original)
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Iowa’s newly-minted 10-year Wildlife Action Plan was still hot off the presses when the country’s bull in the china shop threw a giant monkey wrench into it.How’s that for mixing metaphors? Chaos, I know.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EcrC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16c76a4c-a428-48b0-8913-bf22fb5fa2ca_1522x723.jpeg" target="_blank"
On the ropes (opens the original)
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The century started out with such promise. On July 1, 1999 (technically fiscal year 2000), Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack inaugurated the College of Public Health. The first new academic unit at the University of Iowa in 50 years recognized the growing impact of research being conducted there.<sourc
Thumbs up or thumbs down (opens the original)
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“Back in the day” (my day), Siskel and Ebert became famous film critics with a TV show that gave “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” to movies they reviewed.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="3397" src="https://substackcdn.com/i
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