First time voting in Iowa? Here’s everything you need to know
If it's your first time voting in Iowa, here's what you need to know to make your vote count.
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Amie Rivers
Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the weekly Worker’s Almanac edition of Iowa Starting Line, featuring a roundup of the worker news you need to know. Previously, she was an award-winning journalist at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; now, she very much enjoys making TikToks and memes and getting pet photos in her inbox.
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Aug
2024
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Voting 101: How to vote by mail in Iowa in 2024
From registering to vote to requesting a ballot and every deadline, here's everything you need to know about how to vote absentee—or vote by mail—in Iowa.
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2024
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What about worker rights? Here’s what Tim Walz has done
Picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signals something big: Worker rights, and pro-worker policies, are back at the forefront of Democratic politics. On Tuesday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Walz as her running mate—arguably a progressive pick, given the...
Jul
2024
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Union reps slam Iowa legislators after child labor violations rack up
Labor leaders in eastern Iowa called out Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Republicans who backed new laws to loosen child labor, and tied it to Project 2025's goal of loosening child labor nationwide during a forum in Cedar Rapids last week. Rick Moyle, executive...
Jul
2024
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Iowa worker rights advocates, progressive orgs excited for Kamala Harris
Iowa worker rights advocates and other progressive organizations were mostly hopeful, if not outright excited, about the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee for president. Unless you were falling out of a coconut tree since...
Jul
2024
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‘I can shine a light on the monsters:’ Iowan documenting Russia-Ukraine War
A Des Moines woman is recording and archiving footage to tell the unvarnished truth about the Russia-Ukraine War. Russia's war on Ukraine began in February 2022. However, Ann Vorhees of Des Moines started collecting video from it recently after a conversation she...
Jul
2024
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Davenport Starbucks is 2nd in Iowa to unionize
A second Starbucks has officially unionized in Iowa—and two workers there say they were almost the first. Eighteen workers at the Starbucks store on East 53rd Street in Davenport filed with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize in May. Out of 17 eligible...
Jul
2024
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Former Mercy Iowa City workers say UIHC is threatening pay, seniority
You probably heard about the very public bankruptcy of Iowa City's *other* hospital, Mercy Iowa City, and how around 1,000 jobs were saved when the University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) agreed to buy Mercy, changing the hospital's name to UI Health Care Medical...
Jun
2024
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5 Iowa arena football and indoor football teams to watch this summer
If you're looking for some summer football, check out these five Iowa arena football and indoor football teams. It's not the exact same game as you see in the fall. But with its shorter field, fast-paced action, and ability to run up the score quickly, arena...
Jun
2024
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Bruegger’s Bagels employees launch new union in Iowa
Workers at Bruegger's Bagels, a nationwide bakery chain, are trying to unionize—and, surprisingly, the effort is starting in Iowa, a state with some of the fewest rights for workers in the country.
