Episodes

Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Episode 34: A Conversation with Congressman David Young
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
On The Caffeinated Thoughts Podcast, Congressman David Young (R-Iowa) talks to Shane Vander Hart about why he voted for the Omnibus bill, President Trump's tariff proposal, trade, and tax cuts.
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Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Episode 31: Iowa Working Families Tax Relief Act
Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Thursday Mar 01, 2018
This week on The Caffeinated Thoughts Podcast, Shane Vander Hart discusses the Iowa Working Families Tax Relief Act (SF 2383) that passed in the Iowa Senate 29 to 21 with Drew Klein, the Iowa State Director for Americans for Prosperity. They also discuss the tax reform bill introduced in the Iowa House of Representatives (HSB 671).
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Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Episode 29: Expanding School Choice in Iowa
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
On the Caffeinated Thoughts Podcast, Shane Vander Hart discusses a bill in the Iowa House that would expand school choice in Iowa with Trish Wilger of Iowa Advocates for Choice in Education and Mark Jacobs of Reaching Higher Iowa.
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Friday Feb 09, 2018
Episode 28: Republican Employee Fired for Op-Ed Supportive of Kim Reynolds
Friday Feb 09, 2018
Friday Feb 09, 2018
This week for the Caffeinated Thoughts Podcast, our host, Shane Vander Hart, spoke with Anna Bergman, a Waukee City Councilwoman, who was fired as an attorney for the Iowa Association of School Boards (IASB) for an op-ed she wrote in The Des Moines Register supporting Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.
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Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
Episode 24: Tax Reform in Iowa
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
On this episode of The Caffeinated Thoughts Podcast, Shane Vander Hart talks to Chris Ingstad of Iowans for Tax Relief about their 2018 legislative priorities, and discuss what Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds had to say about tax reform in her Condition of the State address.
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