2023
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How Gas Prices Have Changed In Des Moines In The Last Week
How gas prices have changed in Des Moines in the last week.
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The Most Common Undergraduate Degrees Awarded In Every State
Best Universities compiled data to show the most common degrees awarded to students who attended college by state.
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How To Decipher DeSantis’ Very-Online Campaign Message
When you sit down at the kitchen table to discuss life’s biggest challenges with a family member, is your top concern Central Bank currency or gain-of-function research? If so, you may be Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ target audience for his presidential campaign in the Iowa Caucus. If not… well, large parts of his initial pitch…
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Donahue: Iowa Republicans’ Harmful Agenda of Arrogance and Overreach
In recent years, the state of Iowa has experienced a concerning phenomenon that I like to call the “Iowa Overreach.” Since taking full control of state government in 2017, the Republican Party led by Gov. Kim Reynolds has pursued a relentless agenda of stripping away local control, undermining public education, restricting rights, and promoting discrimination.…
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Guest Post: Despite New Iowa Laws, We Support LGBTQ Students In Sioux City
An Open Letter to Governor Kim Reynolds: You recently signed legislation SF 496, which bans books from schools, limits education on gender identity and sexual orientation, and wants staff to “out” students whose preferred pronoun is different than their biological sex. You proudly signed this bill—privately. This had never been an Iowa concern, but a…
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Quiz: 5 Questions to Test Your Knowledge of Iowa’s “Right to Work” Law
What does "right to work" actually mean? Unions can't require workers to pay dues You're guaranteed a job if you want one You can't be fired without cause Iowa passed its right-to-work law in what year? 1947 2002 2015 1962 True or false: Right-to-work states pay workers less than states without those laws. True False…
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We Asked a Panel of Dads To Edit Our Father’s Day Gift Guide, and They Crossed Everything Out. Here’s What They Told Us To Recommend Instead.
Buying gifts for Father’s Day can be a real pain. Hey, someone had to say it. Whether your father (or father figure) likes to cook, hike, ride his motorcycle, read a good book, or never misses a football game, the idea of buying him a present seems pretty straightforward. But, as we all know, it…
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Newsmax Uses Davenport Tragedy To Push Ukraine War Disinformation
A right-wing media outlet capitalized on the tragic partial-building collapse in Davenport by claiming it was a Moscow building struck by drones from Ukraine. Greta Van Susteren, host of the Newsmax show “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” showed a few shots of the Davenport building and said, “This morning in Moscow, a city of…
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Here’s How the Biden Administration Has Tackled The Mental Health Crisis
May was Mental Health Awareness Month, and for the past few weeks, the Biden administration has announced a series of efforts to address the nation’s growing mental health crisis. Those come on top of the administration’s legislative achievements on mental health, including the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which represented the largest-ever national investment in mental…
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Iowa Students Advance to Finals of National History Day Contest
In June, those 62 students will travel to Maryland to compete in the National History Day Contest, pitting their projects against 3,000 other students from around the world.
