Amie Rivers

Reporting vote results takes time. And as other states are still counting their ballots late in the week, it’s a reminder that Iowa gets its numbers out rather fast and efficiently compared to elsewhere in the country. But Linn County became a focus and frustration on Tuesday night as the second-largest county in Iowa was…

While poll watching is nothing new, the practice has taken on extra significance this year as conspiracy theories about voting take hold on the right. In Black Hawk County, out of 59 precincts, Republicans are sending poll watchers to more than half of them on Tuesday. Craig Lohmann, chair of the Republicans of Black Hawk…

There are state legislators who have fought hard for the working class and union workers in Iowa. And there are legislators who actively work to keep workers down—by passing legislation restricting collective bargaining rights, cutting into unemployment benefits for laid-off workers, and refusing to consider a raise in the abysmally low minimum wage. Mostly, Iowa…

Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) is calling on Iowa Workforce Development to “do better” after a new report showed Iowa employers were stealing nearly a billion dollars per year in unpaid wages from employees. A Common Good Iowa report from last week showed more than $900 million is stolen annually by Iowa employers not correctly paying…

Maybe you’ve never voted before, maybe you just reached the legal voting age, or maybe you just moved to our fair state of Iowa and want a primer on the various rules and regulations legislators have attached to voting over the years. Never fear: We’re here to help! It’s no secret voting in Iowa has…

Monday marked 78 days on strike for about 120 workers at Ingredion in Cedar Rapids, whose company tells them they can’t afford to pay a living wage or save the jobs workers are demanding despite the company’s CEO profiting handsomely off their labor. That’s a notable number because it’s the same amount of days that…

Nearly 180 public unions in Iowa are currently in the midst of being forced to vote on keeping their union, or else the state will take it away. It’s called “recertification,” and it’s mandatory of certain public unions in Iowa since the Republican-majority legislature passed an anti-union law five years ago. Changes to Chapter 20,…