By The Admin on February 17, 2012
A judge will soon decide whether to grant black employees and job applicants monetary damages for hiring practices used by every agency of Iowa state government that they say has disadvantaged them for years.
Experts say the case is the largest class-action lawsuit of its kind against a state government’s civil service system, and tests a [...]
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By The Admin on January 19, 2012
Rick Santorum has ended up 34 votes ahead of Mitt Romney after a recount of the results from the Jan. 3 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, The Des Moines Register is reporting.
But, the newspaper adds, Iowa GOP officials say that results from eight of Iowa’s 1,774 precincts “will never be certified,” meaning the outcome remains basically [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Iowa
By The Admin on January 3, 2012
Inserting his voice into a big night for Republicans, President Barack Obama was appealing to Iowa Democrats during the first balloting in the GOP presidential campaign, seeking to counter months of withering criticism in the state that launched his presidential ambitions four years ago.
Obama was hosting a live video teleconference for Democrats attending precinct caucuses [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Iowa
By The Admin on December 20, 2011
It’s everywhere you turn these days: in magazines, on tv, in the headlines, and all over the twitterverse. You’d think I was referring to the latest Khardashian drama, or Kobe’s divorce but I’m not. I’m talking about one of the most important litmus tests in an election year: The Iowa Caucuses. Once every four years, [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Iowa, Race
By The Admin on January 20, 2011
Des Moines Register
- Gov. Terry Branstad’s decision to rescind a process allowing ex-convicts to quickly have their voting rights restored discriminates against black Iowans, a group of black Iowa community leaders said Wednesday.
They compared Branstad’s insistence that ex-offenders must first pay all fines, fees and restitution ordered by the courts to a “poll tax” reminiscent [...]
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