Late on Tuesday night, it appeared that State Auditor Rob Sand would suffer the same fate as all the other statewide Democratic candidates. Sand had fallen behind by over 10,000 votes to Republican Todd Halbur, while fellow Democratic incumbents Tom Miller and Mike...
If there's one constant in Iowa politics, it's this: We're always in the middle of everything. Despite many analysts and operatives' attempts to write Iowa off of the competitive 2022 battleground map, there's late momentum and intrigue growing on the ground in the...
All throughout the country and here in Iowa, Republican politicians this year have attempted to turn the debate around abortion access away from the fact that they will implement (or already have) abortion bans with very little to no exceptions. They have read from...
For well over a year, Ankeny's Kimberly Reicks and Emily Peterson were—and still are—the face of Iowa's far-right movement against masks in schools and later opposition to the general acceptance of LGBTQ students. The former "Mama Bears" duo accused the school...
The group of Nazis who spread anti-semitic messages around Des Moines on 9/11 got their feelings hurt by Democratic Senate candidate Mike Franken yesterday. After Starting Line reported on how a member of the "319 Crew," a Northeast Iowa Nazi organization, drove...
The eternal Midwest question: Do you call it "Bags" or "Cornhole?" An essential part of any tailgate or backyard BBQ, the game we all know and love that includes bean bags and two boards with holes in them is also a topic of dispute over its name. While there is an...
Sen. Chuck Grassley told a crowd of his constituents that he is "for $35 caps" on insulin prices, just a week and a half after he voted against them twice. His comments came at his town hall in Cordyon on Wednesday, to a crowd of about 40 people in Wayne County....
Iowa Republicans really seem to feel like they "own" the State Auditor's office. At an event earlier this month in Eldora, GOP nominee Todd Halbur told a crowd at the local Republican Sweet Corn Feed that their party has traditionally "owned" the auditor role and...
The last time Sen. Chuck Grassley held an open town hall meeting, he got an earful from Iowans upset over unaddressed gun violence. The tense exchanges and Grassley's explanations drew national attention. That was two and a half months ago, on June 1. Grassley...
A young family from Cedar Falls were the victims killed in a morning shooting at the Maquoketa Caves State Park campground, officials announced Friday evening. The Division of Criminal Investigation released the names of the victims that were murdered in their...
