FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2016 Contact: Ed Fallon, 515-238-6404, ed@boldiowa.org Bold Iowa Blasts Dakota Access For Attempting to Bypass Corps Des Moines — In response to a request made this morning by Dakota Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, The Bakken Pipeline poses serious risks to Iowa’s farmland and waters. Yet the project’s impacts have not been fully assessed by the Army Corps of Engineers, despite what Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, In the past three weeks, unlikely coalitions have stopped two pipelines: Palmetto in Georgia and Kinder Morgan in New England. These victories are very encouraging to those of us Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, Here’s the mug I use to drink my strong, black tea every morning. The quote by Gandhi does as much to jump-start my day’s work as the tea itself: Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, Pipeline fighters know the important role President Obama played in helping defeat the Keystone XL Pipeline. Today, four of us stepped forward with a letter to the President imploring Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, Last fall, Dr. Andy McGuire, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP), approached me to discuss how to build a bridge to progressives and other disaffected voters who’d left the IDP. Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, As Native Americans ramp up their opposition to the Bakken Pipeline, Alexey Yaroshevsky with The Ed Schultz Show reported this story last week, which includes footage of Jane Kleeb Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, One way to tell if you’re having an impact is the level of push back against you. I experienced this in my Congressional campaign in 2008, when my opponent hired a Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, Governor Branstad’s appointees to the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) — Geri Huser, Nick Wagner and Libby Jacobs — should be ashamed of themselves. Sure, it was clear all Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, {The Iowa Utilities Board meets March 9th and 10th beginning at 9:00 a.m. at 1375 E. Court Ave in Des Moines. The IUB could make a decision this week on the Continue Reading →