The below paragragh, makes me feel like no matter what the impact on the other casinos will be, this is a done deal, because corbett will call in some markers and they will just get together with a smoke filled back room agreement like the old good boys system did when they were in Des [...]

Dandekar would go into the blue dog democrat group and there is too many of them already in congress. They add to the number of democrats with seats but then when it comes time for a vote, you can’t count on their vote when it is needed.

I dont think King could get votes from anywhere other then the north western corner of the state any more then Vander Plaats, so it would be an absolute waste of energy for him to run for a state office.

And it goes against the whole purpose of having elected, decision-making bodies in the first place. the trouble is now days, some of the elected offiicals are getting to think the will of the people dont matter. look at IC the neighborhood dont want a development to go in and the officials want to put [...]

them 10 league champs are in the leagues the Hawkeyes choose to play for their non conference games so as they can have a overall winning season each year. But when it comes down to the final game for all the marbles, unless BYU is in it, the team playing will not have a winning [...]

The NIT tournament is for the losers not good enough to make the big NCAA tournament.>>>>You’re looking at an NIT Final Four with just one of the four teams (BYU’s 10-6 in the West Coast Conference) that was above .500 in league play. So even if a team wins it, they havent won much because [...]

It is easy to determine who to fire first. the whole BOS needs to be fired as their time to be reelected comes up before the people. their giving theirselves that big raise shows just how arrogant that they are and their treatment of the auditor is just the icing on the cake. they all [...]

The board has become arrogant and needs a good house cleaning. the old expression of throw the bums out really fits them. they gave their selves a big non deserved raise and just totally ignore the will of the people, which the november election showed how the people felt about the auditor and his opponent. [...]

the ACA would be a lot better if the republcians would quit trying to mess it up at every opportunity. It really needs to be revolved into national health care for all legal citizens someday, but for now it is better then what was before it. private for profit health insurance companies need to kicked [...]

Senator warren just said recently>>”If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour” So yes it [...]

The best argument to raise it is, every worker needs to be paid a living wage. If a business cant afford to pay a living wage to their workers, they need to remain a family business with ma, pa and the kids doing all the work their selves.

Pheasants are disappearing, honey bees among other things are disappearing and a lot of it is due to the way corporate farmers, farm now days. removed all the fence rows to plant ditch to ditch and replaced creeks with tile and using GMO seeds. they are raping the land and killing the earth inhabintants.

Tim, some people have privacy fences where they can sunbathe in their back yards, it is not breaking the law but they dont need some drone flying around so some person in a remote far away place can spy on them.

yes, the state should have guidelines and the money collected from the cameras, should go to the state road fund. that would keep the cities honest and use them for safety as they would have no incentive to keep using them for the cash cow as they do now.

no, it is just the republican way to try to control the vote so as to better their odds of winning. if they can keep the poor and miniority people from voting, they have a better chance at winning. It is like redistricting, they have to arrange funny boundaries to insure their winning. they can [...]

I wonder then, why for the most part, the poor go to jail and do time for what they are charged with and a lot of the richer paying people get charges knocked down to misdeamors and probation.

There is an old saying that you get what you pay for, So do they get adequate representation. Yes they get represented adequately,most of the time, but also it is not the same representation that a paying person would get.

1 and done<<<< too short of answer to post, but you asked and i answered.

Sue it would be great if the state turned bluer out in western iowa, but i cant imagine any reason enough for progressive people would want to move there even to turn it blue. But you did list good reason for people coming to eastern iowa.

Yes the lower income families should get a bigger earned tax credit to make up for the cheap wages they are paid because people want to buy stuff for less money at wally world and other stores, restaurants and fast food places, which forces the places to pay lower wages to the workers.