The big questions
Braley says abortion issue “balances” of rights of mother, baby; King says traditional marriage transfers values, no judgment on gays. Cityview: If a woman wants a child, we call it [...]
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Posted May 22, 2013in Political Mercury
Posted May 15, 2013in Political Mercury
Paul, Roberts mix with GOP faithful
Two Republicans who could top the 2016 ticket in Iowa offered similar messages on strategy during a party event Friday night in Cedar Rapids. Former State Rep. Rod Roberts of [...]
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Posted May 08, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Roberts remains in Senate mix
Former State Rep. Rod Roberts, R-Carroll, is one of many Iowa Republicans in a political career holding pattern as U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, continues to roll over a decision [...]
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Posted May 01, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
King: ‘I can build that wall down there’
National Republicans are struggling with strategies and angles for the party’s relevancy and viability in the 21st century. Enough with the caterwauling over changing racial and family dynamics, this rather [...]
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Posted April 24, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
King: GOP has numbers, strength to stand on principle
Republicans, actively conducting an autopsy of the last presidential election, should be cautious about throwing overboard long-held principles and core constituencies in a chase for quick political fixes with younger [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Sharecropper’s grandson Braley fights for plain-speaking federal government
Politicians looking to yarn folksy images often talk of being plain-speaking, just-folks fellows. Bruce Braley, who grew up in Brooklyn, Iowa, takes that angle a step further. He authored a [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
King leans toward Senate bid
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, who recently has characterized his likelihood of running for the Senate as something of a toss-up, went further last Monday. “I think that needle’s just [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
For Republican legislator, minimum wage is just kids’ stuff
In Mark Segebart’s world, the minimum wage is a quaint notion, something along the lines of an allowance. Make your bed. Clean your room. Flip some burgers after school, and [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Risky Republican strategy with Reynolds
Iowa Republican insiders tell Political Mercury they’re planning on rolling out an unconventional political makeover of Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, one fraught with potential trip wires that could confound her [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
If schools don’t regulate cyberbullying, who will?
Oh, for the 1970s — were it not for those wildly ridiculous pants. Those of us in older generations remember a time when K-12 educators were asked to teach reading [...]
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