With the Nov. 5 elections getting closer, I’ve been talking with friends and neighbors about the candidates running for office and issues that matter in our day-to-day lives. One topic that keeps coming up is Project 2025.
A new book, "The Education Wars," show how private school vouchers further this country's divisions. This is a wonderful time of year in Iowa. We’re gearing up for harvest here on the farm. The hottest days of summer are behind us. And our public schools are once...
Why is Gov. Kim Reynolds saying “No” to Summer EBT, a summer food program for children?
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is launching “Public School Strong” across Iowa. Here's what it's all about.
Family farmers I know say we’ve been under the thumb of corporate ag bosses and the big meatpackers for too long. Political affiliation doesn’t seem to matter—they all agree something needs to be done to make our agriculture and livestock markets more open, fair...
by Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest/Report for America Leer en español Having spent more than half her life in Waterloo, Iowa, she has built a life here. It’s where she met her husband and where her only daughter, who wants to become a sonographer, was born....
In Iowa, we often pride ourselves on our resilience and self-reliance. However, the truth is our state's prosperity heavily depends on, both documented and undocumented, Black and Brown immigrants. The looming impact of the Tyson plant closure in Perry and the...
In a guest post, Rep. Sami Scheetz writes about how the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling to end an injunction that kept Iowa Republicans' abortion ban at bay is a blow to women's bodily autonomy. In just a few short weeks, my wife and I will welcome a baby girl into our...
The main issue that got me active in politics is the impact that regionalization of services has on smaller cities and rural areas. In October 2013, I was working as a sexual assault advocate in my hometown of Muscatine when my company’s CEO announced the closure...
Guest columnist Barb Kalbach questions why Iowa's two US senators haven't endorsed mandatory country-of-origin labels for beef in the Farm Bill, which she says could help family farms.
