Alfredo Jimenez, the El Savadoran artist with a sophisticated, lively sound, will perform as the featured vocalist in front of the Des Moines band Los Salseros this Friday, July 24. Jimenez and Los Salseros will open at 9:00 p.m. at the Kirkwood Ballroom, Fourth and Walnut Streets, in downtown Des Moines. They’ll perform until 1:00 […]
Eric Woolson of The Concept Works will be a guest on the Iowa Public Radio program “Talk at Twelve” at noon Wednesday, July 29. Moderator Greg Shanley will host a conversation between Woolson and New Hampshire political analyst Arnie Arenson. Woolson, a GOP strategist, and Arenson will provide counterpoints on a range of current national […]
Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats, the frontrunning Republican in the 2010 Iowa gubernatorial race, writes for a leading political website, “The numbers in the first scientific poll of the 2010 GOP primary, published last week by The IowaRepublican.com, are helping bring the race into clearer focus. The poll told us a few things we […]
DES MOINES – A scientific poll published today by TheIowaRepublican.com website shows Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats leading his nearest competitor by more than a three-to-one margin in the 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary. The poll, conducted by the Washington, D.C., polling group Voter Consumer Research, shows Vander Plaats with 46 percent support among registered […]
SIOUX CITY – The failure of Gov. Chet Culver and legislative Democrats to mesh the state’s tax code with federal disaster relief provisions was “simply a way to take money from people who had already suffered far too much,” Sioux City Republican Bob Vander Plaats said today. In a story published in today’s edition of […]
SIOUX CITY – With the start of the new fiscal year today, Gov. Chet Culver should make a resolution to control his excessive spending habits that have already pushed the state to the brink of an illegal deficit, Republican Bob Vander Plaats said. “The Legislative Services Agency reported today that state revenues are $123 million […]
Des Moines Register staff writer Grant Schulte writes in today’s edition about former Johnston resident Ryan Hargens, whose 2005 murder in Sioux Falls, S.D, was first ruled a suicide as a result of hasty, incomplete work by authorities. Schulte writes, “The death investigation of a former Iowan who was shot in the head raises numerous […]
Political strategist Dick Morris observes in a commentary featured on the Rasmussen Report site: “To quote the esteemed Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the chickens that were hatched in the stimulus package are coming home to roost in the healthcare proposal. The budget deficit Obama racked up paying for the massive federal spending passed in January is […]
DES MOINES – Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats said today his willingness to take a strong stand to protect the separation of powers and hold activist courts in check distinguishes him from at least one of his primary election opponents, former House Speaker Christopher Rants. Vander Plaats said during the Jan Mickelson program on […]
In a Newsweek web exclusive, documentary filmmaker James Scurlock questions whether his populist-posturing peer Michael Moore has bitten off more than he can chew in his upcoming project about “the wealthy.” To read Scurlock’s insightful piece, “Moore in Less”, click here.
