Andrew Yang has championed a universal basic income policy, coined "the Freedom Dividend." A big part of his sell has been that you could use this money for any personal need or want. Struggling to afford housing rent prices near your job? $1,000 can help cushion...
Former Vice President Joe Biden's eight-day 'No Malarkey' bus tour across Iowa isn't full of shenanigans. In fact, it's really quite serious. Biden spent the first five days of the 660-mile tour discussing a variety of weighty topics with voters in the...
Guest op-ed by Polk County Democrats Chair Sean Bagniewski The Democratic National Committee’s road to the debate stage was paved with good intentions. Throughout 2018, a record number of up-and-coming Democratic presidential candidates crisscrossed the country and...
Guest op-ed from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson, Moorhead Mayor Johnathan Judd and Mankato Mayor Najwa Massad. This week, Senator Amy Klobuchar will take part in the Local America Presidential Forum hosted by the United States Conference of...
Eddie Mauro, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, has made his first TV ad buy of the 2020 cycle. The campaign will spend about $105,000 on digital and TV ads set to start airing today. The ads will run for three weeks, according to the campaign. "Cool Under...
After Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Rosetta Robinson’s daughter had a baby, the two moved out of the small apartment they shared together, expecting to get a more spacious home within a few months. That was last year, and the women are still living in temporary living...
Down through the ages, a pretty comprehensive list of sins has been compiled to guide our daily lives. Some have been added over time as society’s norms have changed, and others have been stricken from the list. I’m not here to preach to you about envy, gluttony or...
Believe it or not, presidential candidates occasionally campaign in states other than Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Weird, right? And as you might expect, the dynamics of events in a place like Chicago, Illinois, where early candidate visits are a...
The President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James Hoffa, is expecting more than 700 union members from across the nation to attend the Teamsters forum in Cedar Rapids Saturday, Dec. 7. "I don't know where we're going to put them all. We'll put them...
New ratings recently released on the competitiveness of U.S. House districts reflect positive momentum for Democrat J.D. Scholten and spell trouble for Congressman Steve King. Inside Elections moved the race for Iowa's 4th Congressional District from "Lean...
