Guest op-ed from youth activist Isabella O'Connor of Des Moines. In a post-caucus and coronavirus-ridden state, Iowans are struggling to remain, or become, politically active. Many people who were already engaged in politics, or looking for a new hobby while social...
Guest op-ed from Lori Young, President of JustVoices and a resident of Des Moines. It’s been going on for decades in Des Moines, racial profiling that is. And for decades, different people and organizations have attempted to bring it to light and stop it, with...
Guest op-ed from Lori Young, President of JustVoices and a resident of Des Moines. It’s been going on for decades in Des Moines, racial profiling that is. And for decades, different people and organizations have attempted to bring it to light and stop it, with...
Guest op-ed from Ireland Larsen, a Drake University junior who secured Cory Booker's one caucus night delegate in the state. The vivid memories I have from my first encounter with the political realm have never left me. Fourteen years old and a freshman in high...
Guest op-ed by Sarah Melhado, an Iowan and Survivor Fellow with Everytown for Gun Safety Survivor Network Close to 30 years have passed, but the day my husband held our daughter hostage while threatening me will always be seared in my memory. I arrived home from...
Guest op-ed from Patty Judge, chair of Focus on Rural America For more than a decade, Iowa’s overall population has been steady. With a very modest growth rate, our state population has hovered around 3.1 million people. If you live in Polk County this may surprise...
Guest op-ed from Patty Judge, chair of Focus on Rural America For more than a decade, Iowa’s overall population has been steady. With a very modest growth rate, our state population has hovered around 3.1 million people. If you live in Polk County this may surprise...
Text of Waterloo State Rep. Ras Smith's speech on the Iowa House floor this Wednesday about Black History Month. As a child, I wondered why as black people we had the Negro National Anthem. “Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the...
Text of Waterloo State Rep. Ras Smith's speech on the Iowa House floor this Wednesday about Black History Month. As a child, I wondered why as black people we had the Negro National Anthem. “Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the...
Text of Waterloo State Rep. Ras Smith's speech on the Iowa House floor this Wednesday about Black History Month. As a child, I wondered why as black people we had the Negro National Anthem. “Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the...
