Month: December 2022

A global warming win-win-win

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I know some pretty amazing people. Many have been doing cutting edge work all their adult lives. (Sometimes, that work is better described as bleeding edge.) One of them is Nick Johnson. Nick’s a retired law professor. He also served on the Iowa City school board and on the Federal Communications Commission. That’s the short list.

One of the issues Nick’s not afraid to tackle is global population. I’m going to pass the baton and share what Nick wrote earlier this year on the subject. You can hear our conversation about it during the opening segment of this week’s program. Feedback welcome, as always, and I’m happy to pass it along to Nick. Continue Reading →

Kansas pipeline rupture raises concerns about DAPL, CO2 pipelines

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Last week, we witnessed another pipeline rupture. An estimated 770,000 gallons of tar-sands oil spilled out of the Keystone Pipeline into a Kansas creek. [Note: This is a different pipeline than the Keystone XL pipeline that President Biden shut down last year.] It’s the largest rupture in that company’s history, and the largest onshore crude oil pipeline spill since 2013.

The Kansas spill did not go unnoticed by Iowans fighting three CO2 pipelines targeting nearly 2,000 miles (yes, miles!) of Iowa farms, forests, and wetlands. Continue Reading →

Why Biden and the DNC killed the Caucuses

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Democrats across the US are celebrating the demise of the Iowa Caucuses. That’s unfortunate, because the passing of the Iowa Caucuses is a huge loss to democracy. And President Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are to blame.

Iowa has never gone well for Biden. In 1988, Biden polled poorly even before dropping out after he got caught plagiarizing Neil Kinnock. In 2008, Biden finished fifth in Iowa. In 2020, fourth. Ouch.

It’s no surprise that Biden would love to never have to campaign in Iowa again. He made that clear at a 2019 forum when he said to me and others in attendance, “All you guys in Iowa are pains in the neck, you know that?”

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