Kathleen McCarthy

Fear Porn Furlong Winner Uncle Scam Riding Bilderberg The 21st century is silly with a vast wealth of data for doing reliable research. Using advanced computer technology to access troves of rich data relative to climate, as well as volumes of historic climate data, we should be able to accurately draw useful conclusions on climate change. So where's the beef?

Voters and taxpayers, most of whom are economic participants in some measure, whether owners of our own labor, capital, and/or resources, continue to accept, via silent consent, governance that is neither the republican form of government guaranteed by the U.S. and State Constitutions, nor is it democratic representation.

Here we are again, a decade later, fighting for the preservation of Scott County's exceptional land, with its rich soil, as farmland in perpetuity (and that of Iowa at large), especially due to its 100 rating as the best soil in the world for food production. We learned this a decade ago when a fertilizer plant from India was trying to bulldoze its way onto Scott County land zoned as Agriculture Preservation that disallowed such a worse-use project.