Awaiting presidential action on the pipeline
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 →
Category Archives: Weekly Updates
Pipeline opponent needs our support
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 →
Exxon Fights Back
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 →
Tell the Corps to do its job!
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 →
Dems’ caucus review panel a joke
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 →
If Birds Could Vote
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 →
Spring: Time for Democracy
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 →
Shame on the IUB!
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 →
Judge Not
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 →
Dakota Access in Trouble
Dear Friends, I’ve always believed we could stop the Bakken Pipeline. I still believe that. As they say in the world of opera, it ain’t over til the fat lady sings Continue Reading →