by Nikoel Hytrek | Jul 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Montana governor Steve Bullock has a new idea for the type of justices he’d seek for the Supreme Court. After touring an ethanol plant and a grain co-op earlier this week, Bullock told Starting Line he would pursue justices who come from the Midwest or Western regions...
by Randy Evans | Jul 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Years ago, when I was a young pup of a reporter for the Des Moines Register, my assignment was covering state and federal courts. Normally, it amounted to reporting on the dirty laundry of society that gets scrubbed in the courts — the murders, the robberies,...
by Paige Godden | Jul 11, 2019 | Iowa Caucus
Iowa’s annual cross-state bicycle event will have at least one presidential candidate joining the trail with fellow riders. John Hickenlooper will ride his bike from Norwalk to Indianola during the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa later this month....
by Pat Rynard | Jul 11, 2019 | Iowa Caucus
Senator Amy Klobuchar has a new collection of endorsements from the kind of Iowa Caucus activists that get things done. They come ahead of her weekend visit to the state, her tenth since announcing her campaign. The Klobuchar campaign announced six new notable Iowans...
by Elizabeth Meyer | Jul 11, 2019 | IA-Senate
Dozens of women and children packed Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst’s office in Des Moines for several hours over the last two days to protest squalid conditions at immigration detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The group arrived Tuesday at the Federal...
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