Higher food prices and missing paychecks are a recipe for a tough holiday season for hundreds of striking workers in Iowa. However, their unions and community supporters are trying to make it all a little easier on them. BCTGM strike in Cedar Rapids The roughly 100...
Paralympian gold medalist and Democrat Josh Turek hung onto his Iowa House District 20 win by just six votes after a recount requested by his Republican opponent Sarah Abdouch. According to Pottawattamie County's official canvass last week, Turek had 3,404 votes to...
The good news: BCTGM unionized workers at the Ingredion milling plant in Cedar Rapids are just four or five negotiating proposals away from having a new agreement, more than 100 days after beginning their strike. The bad news: They're likely to continue striking at...
While election deniers were rejected in high-profile races around the country last week, Iowa will see several 2020 conspiracy theorists arrive (or return) in the state legislature this coming January. In local races that saw less scrutiny than statewide contests...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
