2023
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Guest Post: Iowa Students Ask Lawmakers To Protect Kids, Not Guns
Every day, people across the United States wake to news of another mass shooting. In 2021, a person was shot and injured or killed in their car every 20 hours. This year, 120 Americans are killed with guns every day. There have been 146 mass shootings of four-or-more Americans shot or killed with guns, as…
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Son Of Iowa GOP Chair Introduces Bill To Block Iowa Dems Caucus Plan
Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R-Wilton), son of Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann, is attempting to stop Iowa Democrats’ plan for a modified caucus that relies on mailed presidential preference cards. The younger Kaufmann introduced a committee bill on Monday that prevents anyone who is not physically present at the location of a precinct caucus from participating…
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Attorney ‘Hopeful’ Injunction On Iowa Abortion Law Stays After Court Arguments
The Iowa Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning about ending the injunction on Iowa’s six-week abortion ban. Peter Im, staff attorney at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, argued for Iowa abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood and the Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City. “We’re very hopeful on the merits,” he said at a press…
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Iowa GOP’s Amended Social Media Ban Bill Is Moving Forward
An Iowa House committee advanced a law on Monday to give parents something they can already control: Oversight of their child’s social media accounts. But the bill might instead lead parents to give up more of their own personal information to large social media companies. “Utah just did a law very similar that allows parental…
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20 Cheap (And Safe) International Travel Destinations
With travel becoming even more expensive in 2023 due to fuel prices, inflation, and labor shortages, travelers are considering international destinations where they can get the most bang for their buck. Stacker ranked the top 20 travel destinations where the U.S. dollar stretches the most by combining data from WorldData.info with country travel advisories issued by the…
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Judge’s Abortion Pill Ruling Could Have Widespread Consequences On Health Care Access
Two judges—one in Texas, and one in Washington—issued competing rulings on the fate of the abortion medication mifepristone on Friday, throwing the future of access to the pill into question. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a hold on the federal approval of mifepristone, in what multiple publications have said overruled decades…
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Iowa AG Stops Paying For Portions Of Rape Victims’ Health Care
The office of Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) announced Friday that Iowa will no longer pay for emergency contraception—morning-after pills—or abortions for sexual assault victims. “While not required by Iowa law, the victim compensation fund has previously paid for Plan B and abortions. As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance,…
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Nurse: Bill To Cut SNAP/Medicaid ‘Not Good’ For Iowans’ Health
Despite both of her parents being college graduates, Esther Hurston said her family struggled financially for most of her childhood and those scars stick with her. “As a little girl, I never knew if we were going to have a home to live in, if I was going to have food to eat,” she said.…
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Liberal-Leaning Students More Likely to Avoid Iowa For College
One in four high school seniors say they’re eliminating some colleges from their searches because of the politics of the state the school is in, according to a new student poll conducted this year by Art & Science Group. Around 24% of all students surveyed said they were making college decisions based on a state’s…
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Trump Makes Himself 2 Inches Taller In Fake Mugshot That Fundraises Off Arrest
Former president Donald Trump decided to turn his arrest and 34 felony charges related to hush money payments to an adult film star into a money-making opportunity, and has reportedly raised $7 million for his 2024 campaign since official news of his indictment last week. For Tuesday’s arrest and appearance in court, the Trump campaign…
