David Yepsen

Don’t add flood recovery to debts

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 22, 2008          

David Yepsen’s prescriptions for flood recovery reveal much of what’s wrong in contemporary U.S. politics ("Use Iowa Pragmatism to Guide the Recovery," July 6 column). He prefaces a long and very costly list of programs and...                

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Think green, not concrete, for Iowa

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 22, 2008          

The Register’s solutions to our troubles with flooding seem to begin and end with starting up the state’s concrete mixers. Columnist David Yepsen did superficially address the importance of preventing flooding in the first...                

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Yepsen: Strategy, voter trends benefit Obama

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 16, 2008   4 related          

DAVID YEPSEN • dyepsen@dmreg.com • July 17, 2008 Democrat Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican John McCain in the race for Iowa's seven electoral votes, according to the latest poll. The survey of 500 likely Iowa...                

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Yepsen: Feuding Iowa GOP tilts further right

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 14, 2008          

DAVID YEPSEN • dyepsen@dmreg.com • July 15, 2008 Iowa's Republican social conservatives have ousted a longtime state GOP leader from the national committee, replacing him with one of their own. Steve Scheffler, head of the Iowa...                

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Yepsen: Changing positions is healthy

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 12, 2008          

Instead, they're both dancing around, altering their positions on things and hoping we don't notice. Obama was for taking public funding of his election campaign until he figured out he could raise more from individual donors....                

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Yepsen: No surprises: Let’s hear ideas in races

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 8, 2008          

David Yepsen • dyepsen@dmreg.com • July 8, 2008 As we open the fall campaigns for the Legislature, it's good to remember something about Iowa politics: Voters like to be cut in on debates over issues. That way, you can generate...                

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Yepsen: Use Iowa pragmatism to guide the recovery

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 4, 2008   3 related          

David Yepsen • dyepsen@dmreg.com • July 6, 2008 Whenever politicians form commissions to study things, the odds are they've got a controversial problem to solve and are looking for a fig leaf to cover their actions. River...                

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Yepsen: Disasters changing Iowa’s political landscape

desmoinesregister.com     Jul 3, 2008   10 related          

David Yepsen • dyepsen@dmreg.com • July 3, 2008 The storms and floods of 2008, some of the greatest natural calamities ever to strike Iowa, will change the political agenda in the state for the coming months and years. These...                

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Yepsen: Take pride in veterans cemetery

desmoinesregister.com     Jun 27, 2008          

DAVID YEPSEN • dyepsen@dmreg.com • June 29, 2008 It is a jewel just beginning to shine. The new Iowa Veterans Cemetery, scheduled to be dedicated Thursday, is something all Iowans can look upon with pride and respect. Until...                

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Yepsen: Borrow to bankroll massive rebuilding

desmoinesregister.com     Jun 16, 2008          

And it should. So the first thing Iowa needs to change is its attitude toward public debt. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Iowa ranked 47th in per-capita levels of state and local government public debt in...                

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