Introduction Social workers play a lot of roles. As advocates, change agents, case managers, educators, facilitators and organizers social workers play an important part in helping people and communities make positive changes in their lives. Despite this, social workers are themselves sharply underrepresented among elected officials. Currently, while there are 682,000 Social Workers in the…
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The Importance of Vote By Mail
Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening elections across the United States and the rest of the world, it’s been more important than ever to be able to vote at home and not risk being exposed. One way to do this is through widespread adoption of voting by mail. In most systems like this (adopted years…
Sigourney City Council Meeting, Mar 4
Below are some brief notes from the March 4th Sigourney City Council Meeting. City Council Agenda Items Consent Agenda Approval of a Consent Agenda The Consent Agenda included the approval of the minutes from the previous meeting, the Council Accounts Payable, approval of the credit card report and approval of Don North (Director of Public…
Elected Officials in Sigourney, Iowa
Introduction The elected officials in Sigourney, Iowa consist of the Mayor, the City Council, the Sigourney Community School Board, and the Keokuk County Supervisors (who are not elected by the city by the entire county, but represent and serve Sigourney constituents.) The Sigourney News-Review is the source for the majority of the below information, but…
Iowa House File 153 (HF153)
Introduction Looking at new legislation related to economic development recently, I was surprised to see HF153 listed there. House File 153, “An Act providing for an abortion victims monument on the capitol complex grounds”, was sponsored by House Reps Dean Fisher (District 72), Tom Gerhold (District 75), Skyler Wheeler (District 4), and Sandy Salmon (District…