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Unlikely Allies: California And Iowa Look To Cleaner Ethanol
The Midwest can help save our planet’s natural resources with responsible farming practices. Presidential candidates have hinted at it with their plans and speeches in Iowa, but it’s not something we should gloss over as pandering; it’s a real possibility. Leaders from the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a major influencer in how markets nationwide…
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EP110: Iowa Starting Line Podcast is Coming Back
Iowa Starting Line will be bringing the podcast back this week. Pat Rynard sits down for a quick few minutes to talk about where we’ll be taking the podcast, when it will come out and what you can expect from week to week. There will be recaps, interviews, story dives, analysis and more.
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5 Democratic Health Care Ideas You May Not Know About
The health care discussion in the Democratic presidential primary has been dominated by Medicare for All. Candidates are asked to pick a side, tell voters how they would pay for it and how universal coverage would affect the country’s private health insurance industry. But there are many other aspects of health insurance, access and services…
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Latest Round of Refinery Waivers “The Last Straw With Farmers”
“The small refinery waivers that came out on August 9th by President Trump are like the nail in the coffin, or the last straw, with farmers,” said Pam Johnson, former President of the Corn Growers Association, at a press conference at the Iowa Capitol Tuesday afternoon. Johnson was joined by former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack…
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Joe Biden Defends Obamacare In New Personal TV Ad In Iowa
“Health care is personal to me,” Biden says in his new ad. “Obamacare is personal to me.” The ad addresses Biden’s personal experiences, drawing on a car accident that took his wife and daughter’s lives, as well as his son Beau’s struggle with brain cancer. The messaging in the new ad is similar to what…
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How Dark Money Groups Are Attacking Dems’ Health Care Plans
More than a million dollars worth of advertising spots were purchased in August in Iowa by three dark-money groups trying to impact the health care conversation in the state as voters vet presidential candidates. One Nation, Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, and Doctor Patient Unity all spent big bucks to buy spots in the…
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Health Care Industry Spending Millions in Iowa to Preserve Profits
While Democratic candidates pitch their plans on improving America’s health care system to Iowans, three dark-money groups are blanketing the Iowa airwaves with attacks ads on those reforms and similar issues. Aligned with the health care industry, they are airing ads against Medicare for All and other progressive health care legislation, spending over $1 million…
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Biden On Trump In Iowa: “Easy To Be A Bully” When Others Getting Hit
Around 75 people showed up at Sunset Ridge Farm this afternoon to hear Vice President Joe Biden speak earlier today. Biden framed the 2020 race as “the most important election any of you have ever voted in, regardless of how old, or young, you are.” Biden hit many of his frequent talking points, including the…
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Ernst, Grassley Warn Trump He’s Losing Iowa Support On Waivers
In the wake of 31 Renewable Fuel Standard waivers being granted to refineries last week, Republican senators from Iowa are warning President Donald Trump about the political fallout he’s causing, noting that “our farmers are angry.” The waivers allow oil refineries to avoid blending ethanol into their final product, benefiting oil companies’ bottom lines at…
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Iowa Farmers To Trump: “You’re Stabbing Us In The Back”
Iowa farmers are furious over a recent major decision from Donald Trump’s EPA that is undercutting corn growers in favor of oil companies. Robb Ewoldt, a farmer from Northeast Iowa, expressed his frustrations to Starting Line in a conversation this week. “We got to get somebody in the White House to hear, ‘you know, we…
