by Pat Rynard | Jan 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
On a bright and sunny Saturday afternoon, one year to the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, close to 10,000 people gathered outside the Iowa State Capitol building for this year’s Women’s March. Thousands of activists, voters and concerned citizens came out sporting...
by Pat Rynard | Jan 19, 2018 | POLITICS
Today at 4:30 was the deadline for Iowa statewide and legislative candidates to file their fundraising reports for everything they raised and spent in 2017. Starting Line will have a lot of in-depth coverage on the gubernatorial, other statewide candidates and...
by Randy Evans | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of Iowa’s talented historians delivered an important lesson last week. But instead of standing in front of a school classroom, he was in the chamber of the Iowa House of Representatives. The teacher was Mark Cady. The subject of his lesson was a proud chapter in...
by Pat Rynard | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
When Kristin Sunde and her husband Matt took care of two foster children in their West Des Moines home, they started to become concerned with what they saw in the complicated and sometimes-frustrating Department of Human Services system. The state’s Medicaid process...
by Chance Dorland | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
For Iowa Starting Line Podcast episode #4, Grant Woodard, the former campaign manager for 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jack Hatch, joins host Pat Rynard to discuss the upcoming gubernatorial primary & the all-important fundraising deadline,...
