As he travels the state on his second run at a US Senate seat, Mike Franken is used to meeting fellow military veterans, and getting peppered with a lot of questions about foreign policy. It makes sense: A retired US Navy three-star admiral who served for more than...
I’m hiking every beautiful place I can think of around my home state, to showcase the beauty Iowa has to offer. Follow along here, or on Twitter using #AmieTakesAHike, to pass along your suggestions and see where I’m headed next. They had me at "waterfall." Union...
It's less than a week after a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 Black grocery store shoppers and employees. It's one day after 4-year-old Savannah Holmes of Ankeny found her father's gun on the couch and accidentally shot and killed herself....
Even as they've railed against an extreme shortage of baby formula, particularly Abbott brands that have left Iowa parents scrambling, Reps. Ashley Hinson, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Randy Feenstra still voted against a US House bill that provides $28 million to...
Owning a small business has always been difficult, particularly if you're facing discrimination because of your gender or race. Add in an economic crisis brought on by the perfect storm of a pandemic, supply chain problems, inflation, overseas conflicts, and empty...
It's tempting, easy, or—let's be honest—lazy to only think of Iowa as a flat state divided into squares of corn and soybeans. That's what everyone else thinks of us, looking down from their airplane as it flies over, right? Sure, we're an agricultural state. Many...
Was Keir Hichens surprised that his small, private Iowa college would vote overwhelmingly to unionize its undergraduate student workers, becoming the first college in the entire country to do so? Not at all, the Grinnell College junior said. That's because Hichens...
Cargill, JBS, National Beef, Smithfield Foods, and Tyson, all of which operate meatpacking plants in Iowa, are accused of conspiring with the Trump Administration to shield themselves from legal liability after they forced workers back on the line during the COVID...
Drivers at King's Ready Mix in Cedar Rapids went on strike Tuesday for better wages while the company argues their pay is fair. Jesse Case, secretary/treasurer of Teamsters Local #238, said 16 drivers were striking for higher wages, the only thing workers were...
Carly Matthew was excited in 2020 when she began working at Seed Savers Exchange, a Decorah nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of heirloom seeds. She went to The Organic Farm School in Washington State for six months to learn all about the trade. This April,...
