Democrats in Iowa got some encouraging news with a special election city council win last night in the small, rural town of Solon. The race in rural Johnson County certainly wasn't the biggest campaign battle ever, but it proved that relatively new, progressive...
Iowa Republicans are getting ready for their exciting weekend of motorcycles, hog roasts and celebrating senators intent on taking away people's healthcare. But Democrats don't plan on letting them have all the fun in Boone for Joni Ernst's Roast And Ride...
Democrats have another contender for the 2018 gubernatorial nomination: Cathy Glasson. She kicked off an exploratory committee today with a video outlining what she calls a "bold, progressive" agenda for Iowa. An ICU nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals for...
In very sad(!) news today, Donald Trump announced he will be cancelling his planned Thursday rally in Cedar Rapids, due to an "unforeseen change in President Trump's schedule." It will be rescheduled at a later date, possibly as soon as early in the following week....
Iowa politics can be fun when you have a long memory. Take today, for instance. Kim Reynolds announced Adam Gregg as her "acting" lt. governor (due to Attorney General Tom Miller's ruling, he will be essentially a staff role for the time being). In doing so,...
Kim Reynolds was sworn in as Iowa's 43rd governor yesterday, but it certainly didn't take her long to kick off her reelection campaign. On the same day that she laid out her policy agenda for the state, her staff amended her former lt. governor campaign committee...
While Iowa's Democratic leaders congratulated Kim Reynolds on her swearing in as Iowa's newest governor, they also offered up deeply skeptical and critical concerns. Only a handful of well-known Democrats attended Reynolds' ceremony, including legislative leaders...
Iowa has a new governor. Kim Reynolds was officially sworn in this morning at a large ceremony in the rotunda of the Capitol, with many of the state’s top officials, Republican legislators and major conservative activists in attendance. Terry Branstad resigned the...
I have seen a lot of political inaction in my time here in Iowa, but nothing that has perplexed and infuriated me as much as the state's inability to respond to the starvation deaths of two adopted girls. You would have thought something may have changed after...
The options for women's healthcare services are being dramatically reduced in Southeast Iowa thanks to the actions of local Republican lawmakers like Mark Lofgren, Tom Greene and Gary Carlson. Planned Parenthood announced today that they will close four clinics by...
