News Roundup (6/22/06)
- Steve King is delaying the renewal of the federal Voting Rights Act by pushing for an end to multilingual ballots. Apparently letting citizens understand whom they’re voting for is “driving a wedge between cultures.” Steve King isn’t all asshole though; yesterday he apologized for calling Helen Thomas ugly.
- Now that Karl Rove is free of indictements, he has some spare time to spend campaigning for Mike Whalen and Jeff Lamberti here in Iowa. Thank god for that.
- Cityview answers all of your eminent domain questions, and then some. If that’s not enough, Chris Woods ponders what the Legislature’s next move may be.
- According to an article in the Globe Gazette, some Iowa Democrats are hankering for a little Obama ‘08 action. It strikes me as unusual to find an entire news story about someone not visiting Iowa, which says something about Obama’s popularity (and about how demanding Iowans are). Here’s an interesting Nation article on Obama’s progressive stalwart potential.
- A study conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest gave Iowa a failing grade on school nutrition. Harkin has been pushing for national school nutrition standards for years. I could make a crack about Iowa feeding the world, but I’ll let you imagine one for yourself.
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