Like other communities around the nation that have used a variety of strategies to silence train horns, my hometown, Carroll, Iowa, is split on whether to spend tax dollars to reduce the noise coming from the two Union Pacific Lines crossing seven intersections in our slice of western Iowa.
Thanks for this piece Doug. Thinking about the ways in which people have issues in common is a great antidote to the now mainstream paradigm of thinking we are all at each other's throats.
Yes, local matters. A regional conservative activist once said ( I was director of the state Civil Rights Commission and advocating for expanding coverage under discrimination laws to LGBTQ communities)--"I would rather have 1000 school board members who subscribe to our conservative social beliefs than have a social conservative in the Presidency". This was said during Obama years.
I remember doing a story at The Ames Tribune in the 1990s with conservatives discussing strategy of going after school board seats. Thanks for the insight Ralph, and for reading.
Yes, there were example of certain evangelical conservatives running and winning seats, while keeping their religious views out of the campaign trail. I would attend forums and ask questions. Thirty years ago, the social issues were prayer in school and teaching of creationism.
Thanks for this piece Doug. Thinking about the ways in which people have issues in common is a great antidote to the now mainstream paradigm of thinking we are all at each other's throats.
Yes, local matters. A regional conservative activist once said ( I was director of the state Civil Rights Commission and advocating for expanding coverage under discrimination laws to LGBTQ communities)--"I would rather have 1000 school board members who subscribe to our conservative social beliefs than have a social conservative in the Presidency". This was said during Obama years.
I remember doing a story at The Ames Tribune in the 1990s with conservatives discussing strategy of going after school board seats. Thanks for the insight Ralph, and for reading.
Yes, there were example of certain evangelical conservatives running and winning seats, while keeping their religious views out of the campaign trail. I would attend forums and ask questions. Thirty years ago, the social issues were prayer in school and teaching of creationism.
So true. Thanks for all you do Doug