Clarke County Democrats adopted the following platform for 2018 at the county convention on March 24. AGRICULTURE, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENT 1. Enact a [3/8%] sales tax to fund conservation and water quality. 2. Enact legislation to ensure public utility rate structures that encourage customers to install solar and/or wind power on their own properties. 3.…

Precinct caucuses for all Clarke County precincts except Murray will be held at Clarke Elementary School, 420 E Jefferson St. in Osceola.  Murray precinct caucus will be at Murray High School, 216 Sherman in Murray.  Registration starts at 6pm, and the caucuses start at 7pm.  Call Ed White (641-414-1721) or Terry Jacobsen (641-342-4834) if you…

Reasons to raise the minimum wage from IowaStartingLine.com

Iowa Democratic leaders unveil health plan proposal with Medicaid buy-in option from Iowastartingline.com

7-county Democratic dinner, auction, & candidate forum Moravia, Methodist Church Fellowship Hall Pre-event coffee with candidates at 4pm. Free-will donation dinner starts at 5pm. Candidate speeches and auction start at 5:30pm.  

Come for free lunch and a chance to question our state legislators Amy Sinclair and Joel Fry about their recent and pending choices.  Other Clarke County Democrats will be attending: we have questions and you probably do, too.

Advice to Donald Trump from Henry Rollins: “White Power is not an energy plan.”

Greetings! It’s a great honor to run for the Iowa House of Representatives from District 27. My education and experience enable me to be able to serve you and Iowa. I graduated Lamoni High in 1975 and went on to earn a degree at Graceland University (79) in economics, business administration, and history. I hired…

There are some interesting down-ballot contests going on in Clarke County, but also some positions that lack any candidates at all.   Cruising around the county, one can see not only yard signs for Democrats and Republicans in the same yard, but even yard signs for opposing candidates for the same position standing next to each…

The candidates may have learned as much as the voters who attended the stops on Saturday’s Candidate Convoy through the farther reaches of Clarke County. Conversations ranged from confusion over the borders of the reconfigured Congressional districts to the price per acre of land in 1878 ($5.00) and 1945 ($17.50), while travelling from one to…