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'The Wild Girls' by Pat Murphy

Martin wrote 6 days ago: Joan moves to a hew housing development on the outskirts of town with her unhappy nuclear family. Pl … more →

Tags: Short Stories, witpunk

Mean Joe Green #60: It's Earth Day! Spend Time Not Money!

Joe Mohr wrote 1 week ago: Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on Earth Day 2009 When John Ivanko reviewed Pat Murphy … more →

Tags: Enviro-Political, Green Options, Cartoon, Mean Joe Green, Earth Day, earth day cartoon, Green Shopping, John Ivanko, Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and

Devil Development Program Announces Five-Week Fall Baseball Camp

Russ Christ wrote 2 months ago: The Devil Development Program (D-Pound), a series of baseball camps organized by Arizona State baseb … more →

Tags: News, Baseball, The Devil Development Program, youth baseball camps, Arizona State University, packard stadium, John Flanagan, Ken Knutson, Andy Stankiewicz

The Wild Girls

jessmonster wrote 4 months ago: The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy My rating: 4 of 5 stars A lovely, realistic story about friendship and … more →

Tags: Books, children's lit, Reviews, the wild girls

The Wild Girls

Carrie Rollwagen wrote 5 months ago: click here to jump to this week’s chapter BOOK REVIEW :: BY CARRIE ROLLWAGEN All day, I’ … more →

Tags: News, Reviews, Contests, Some New Trend, Carrie Rollwagen, the wild girls

ASU+CWS = Disappointment

Aaron wrote 6 months ago: Another Tough One for ASU I descended onto Omaha for two reasons: 1) For a family vacation I attend … more →

Tags: ASU, NCAA Baseball, College Baseball, College World Series, Mike Leake, Josh Spence

Former GOP County Co-Chair Launches House Bid as Independent9 comments

Al Bregar wrote 6 months ago: We have been saying for some time that the people advocating for Republicans to compromise on our pr … more →

Tags: Politics, Abregar, taxes, Republican Party, Education, Gay Marriage, Iowa Supreme Court, federal deductibility, Governor Culver

Pure silliness!: Klutz's Invasion of the Bristlebots1 comment

toyportfolio wrote 6 months ago: This time of the year with all of the toys pouring in for review, it takes a really unique product t … more →

Tags: Activity Kits for Kids, Scholastic, Klutz Invasion of the Bristlebots

Anticipating 201010 comments

Al Bregar wrote 7 months ago: Barring a special session the Iowa legislative session has come to a close. Now Iowa Republicans can … more →

Tags: Politics, Abregar, Democrats, Iowa, Republicans, Chet Culver, government debt, taxes, Mike Gronstal

Showengerdts Share Painful Story in DM Register

JLG wrote 7 months ago: Iowans Karl and Judy Showengerdt share the painful story of their homosexual son Randy’s losin … more →

Tags: Marriage, Faith, Judges and Courts, Health Care, Family, Politics, Religion, News, Chet Culver

Speaker of the House Pat Murphy is a Liar4 comments

Al Bregar wrote 8 months ago: As most people are by now aware the Speaker of the Iowa House Pat Murphy ordered the removal of hund … more →

Tags: Politics, Abregar, Iowa Statehouse, Iowa Speaker of the House, Governor Chet Culver

Post eviction reflections from one in the "unruly crowd" 4 comments

callmecrusader wrote 8 months ago: I wonder how many of the “unruly crowd” (according to the Des Moines Register of April 1 … more →

Tags: Politics, callmecrusader, Chet Culver, Des Moines Register, House File 807, Speaker of the house, Michael Kiernan

Strawn Statement on Federal Deductibility Hearing

iowabrigade wrote 8 months ago: This evening, Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn released the following statement followi … more →

Tags: Matt Strawn, Republican Party of Iowa, Democrats, chairman, federal deductibility, Tax Increase, public hearing, Iowa House Speaker

Nazi Germany Comes to Iowa13 comments

Al Bregar wrote 8 months ago: Last night I had the unique opportunity to attend my first public hearing at the Iowa State Capital. … more →

Tags: Politics, Abregar, Iowa Statehouse, House File 807, federal deductibility, Speaker of the house, state troopers

New Names for our Wall of Pride5 comments

Iowans Rock wrote 10 months ago: In case you haven’t noticed, we have a new addition to IDA.  We have had the Wall of Shame for … more →

Tags: Politics, Iowans Rock, Chris Hagenow, Kent Sorenson, prevailing wage, voting machine, Ray Zirklebach, Iowa Statehouse

Help Close the Voting Machine on Prevailing Wage1 comment

Iowans Rock wrote 10 months ago: The Prevailing Wage vote is stuck in the Iowa House at 50-46 and Speaker Murphy is keeping the votin … more →

Tags: Politics, Iowans Rock, vote, Iowa House of Representatives, McKinley Bailey, Doris Kelley, prevailing wage, Larry Marek, Delores Mertz

Impressions from the Fifth Annual U.S. Peak Oil Conference1 comment

mjolsen wrote 1 year ago: The conference was in a new place this year, Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. It was a rea … more →

Tags: Transition, Peak Oil, John Michael Greer, Katrin Klingenberg, Linda Wigington, passive house, super-insulated, Peter Bane, John Richter

MLA voices concern about involvement in PNP discussions

Stephen Pate wrote 1 year ago: TERESA WRIGHT The Guardian Last updated at 12:36 AM on 08/10/08 Government MLA Pat Murphy, who has p … more →

Tags: Liberal Millionaires Club, stephen pate, PEI Disability alert, the guardian, Robert Ghiz, PnP, Jim Bagnall, Provincial Nominee Program, Olive Crane

A hot potato for the auditor general

Stephen Pate wrote 1 year ago: P.E.I. Auditor General Colin Younker picked up a hot potato this week when he announced he would inv … more →

Tags: Liberal Millionaires Club, stephen pate, PEI Disability alert, the guardian, PnP, Chinese, auditor general, Premier Robert Ghiz, CBC


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