Today’s Issue

• Is it really a great time to cut taxes?

  May 24, 2021:   Senator Cournoyer [District 49] may truly believe Iowa is in a great position to cut taxes (NSP 5/12/21) but I sometimes struggle with Republican math. They are shifting mental health funding from property taxes to the state but the claimed...Read more >

• Legislators should support COVID-price law

  April 15, 2021:   "As vaccine rollouts remain patchy throughout the United States, we who live in Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois, have seen an increase in vaccinations. There is no doubt that many more still need to be vaccinated, bu...Read more >

• Iowa ARA VP, Kay Pence – Meat processing: Essential Workers should not be treated as disposable widgets – Letter to the Editor

  May 18, 2020: Last week The NSP reported “the unthinkable: Mass killing of perfectly healthy livestock on a scale never seen in the country.” I was glad to see workers finally mentioned on page 4. I was beginning to fear disposal of euthanized hogs was the ...Read more >