While raising her two young sons in West Des Moines, Cindy Axne found a problem: the school district claimed there was only enough space for half of local children to attend full-day kindergarten. A lottery system was used to decide who got to get in, which her...
“Something Different.” That could easily be the slogan for Cathy Glasson’s campaign for governor in 2018, as she said at one point in an interview with Starting Line that “Iowans want to see something different.” She believes Iowans will find just that in her...
Polk County Conservation Director Rich Leopold announced this morning that he was ending his campaign for Iowa Governor. Leopold, the state's former DNR director, was the first candidate to announce back in January. He cited the difficulty of running an...
Kim Weaver's candidacy has ended, and a follow-up story from the Des Moines Register raised serious questions about her reasoning for doing so. But whatever, it's time to move on. Hopefully, part of moving on for Iowa Democratic activists will be a renewed focus on...
It's been a banner two weeks for Iowa Republicans. Last Wednesday they saw Terry Branstad step down for his Chinese ambassador role, swore in Kim Reynolds as governor, celebrated it this Friday night and hosted Vice President Mike Pence at Joni Ernst's Roast And...
Just a couple months ago, Iowa Democrats were wondering if we'd have more than one or two candidates in the race for governor in 2018. Now, about one year out from the primary, we're up to nine contenders who have either officially declared or have set up an...
Democrats have another contender for the 2018 gubernatorial nomination: Cathy Glasson. She kicked off an exploratory committee today with a video outlining what she calls a "bold, progressive" agenda for Iowa. An ICU nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals for...
Iowa politics can be fun when you have a long memory. Take today, for instance. Kim Reynolds announced Adam Gregg as her "acting" lt. governor (due to Attorney General Tom Miller's ruling, he will be essentially a staff role for the time being). In doing so,...
Kim Reynolds was sworn in as Iowa's 43rd governor yesterday, but it certainly didn't take her long to kick off her reelection campaign. On the same day that she laid out her policy agenda for the state, her staff amended her former lt. governor campaign committee...
While Iowa's Democratic leaders congratulated Kim Reynolds on her swearing in as Iowa's newest governor, they also offered up deeply skeptical and critical concerns. Only a handful of well-known Democrats attended Reynolds' ceremony, including legislative leaders...
