In Iowa, the voters are angry. Even the really old ones, like 95-year-old Bud Guthrie, a World War II veteran who lives in rural Story County. He’s so upset by Donald Trump, that Guthrie, a lifelong Republican, has now switched to being a lifelong Democrat, as he...
Guest op-ed from State Sen. Eric Giddens of Cedar Falls. Our nation’s guiding principle is enshrined in our founding document: the government derives its power from the people, and the people direct the operations of their government. That’s what the Declaration of...
It was an hour and a half into Joe Biden’s event in Knoxville, Iowa, and the former vice president wasn’t ready to leave. Taking his third question after his staff called for a “last question,” Biden walked into the crowd to an older gentleman emphatically raising...
The acknowledgment of transgender Iowans appears to have deeply upset a pair of Republican lawmakers in Iowa. State Rep. Skyler Wheeler called the flying of a transgender flag over the Iowa Capitol for a few minutes "one of the most egregious acts of political...
The issues and challenges that Iowa cities face will get their time on the national stage early next month, as the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Accelerator for America brings a major presidential forum to Waterloo. Mayor Quentin Hart of Waterloo will welcome...
Elizabeth Warren brought her number of Iowa state legislator endorsements to ten today following last night's Democratic debate. Cedar Rapids State Representative Art Staed announced he'd be in Warren's corner on caucus night, along with 24 other notable Iowa...
It is past time for more candidates to drop out of the presidential primary. Seventy-nine days out from the Iowa Caucus, we still have 17 Democratic contenders in the race. The total number started going in the wrong direction this past week with Deval Patrick's...
A recently-released survey from PPP Polls has good news for Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer in the lead-off caucus state. Both are moving up in the still-crowded Democratic primary, with Klobuchar polling at 9% and Steyer at 6% in Iowa in this survey. Klobuchar's new...
We're starting to enter peak advertising season here in the Iowa Caucus, as messages from presidential candidates compete with holiday ads on the TV screens. Starting Line counts eight different Democratic contenders with spots on Iowa TV this week, most of which...
We may only be 82 days away from the Iowa Caucus, but that's still multiple political lifetimes in today's media cycles. For a few months now, the top-four field has largely been set: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Lately, Warren...
