With just over two weeks to go before Election Day, Democrat Mike Franken called out Chuck Grassley, his Republican opponent for Iowa's open US Senate seat, on a number of issues during a Monday night event in Waterloo. Franken, a former US Navy admiral, criticized...
People who deny that Joe Biden is the President of the United States aren't just a fringe group in Arizona or Florida anymore. They're right here in Iowa—and they want to be in the Iowa Legislature. You might remember the traveling Ohio math professor peddling the...
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...
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...
I’m hiking every beautiful place I can think of around my home state, to showcase the beauty Iowa has to offer. Follow along on social media using #AmieTakesAHike to pass along your suggestions and see where I’m headed next. It's been a minute since my last hike....
If you've ever been denied overtime pay or been paid less than minimum wage, it's likely you've been a victim of wage theft, which a new report shows has grown to become a nearly billion-dollar problem in Iowa. According to Common Good Iowa, employers were stealing...
Second in a two-part series on Dollar General coming into rural Iowa towns, and how rural grocers can still compete with them. Read Part 1 here. When Dollar General opened a store in Paullina, a small Northwest Iowa town, in 2018, Prairie Market Owner Laura Palmer...
First in a two-part series on Dollar General coming into rural Iowa towns, and how rural grocers can still compete with them. Read Part 2 here. Scott Vogelaar started working at his parents' grocery store, Sanborn Foods, when he was 12 years old. Around 11 years...
As union workers at Case New Holland plants in Burlington, Iowa and Racine, Wisconsin continue their labor strike, it's worth considering how easily the company could give workers everything they wanted—and more. That's because the company is raking in healthy,...
Striking Ingredion workers in Cedar Rapids say it's more than their livelihoods at stake if the company refuses to negotiate with them: Hazardous and potentially explosive chemicals and starches used to make Ingredion products are now being manufactured by...
