Democratic activists and candidates gathered on a sunny, hot field on Saturday for the Polk County Democrats' annual Steak Fry, which returned to an in-person setting this year (with plenty of COVID precautions). Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood keynoted the event to...
Although she won't be able to see it on Twitter for another day, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Iowa State Fair-goers will be greeted this week by a billboard tying the congresswoman to two of Iowa's own Republican members of the US House. Democrats hope...
Two weeks after state Sen. Rob Hogg announced his upcoming retirement from the Iowa Senate, the field of Democrats looking to fill his seat in the chamber is getting a shake-up. State Rep. Liz Bennett announced last night that she is officially running for the...
If it feels like some of your relatives and neighbors are living in a different reality than you these days because of how they consume information online, it's because they essentially are. We've all witnessed how the struggles of the local news industry have...
Iowa's U.S. Senate race may feature a match-up between Chuck Grassley and a Democrat less than half his age who wasn't alive when the senator was first elected to office. Kim Reynolds will likely face off with someone with a fraction of years experience in public...
Iowa Democrats are eager to set their sights on the future following yet another poor election showing in 2020, one that saw the party again fail to win the top statewide race on the ballot. To get that effort moving, they'll need candidates to take on Gov. Kim...
A farmer from Crawford County with a family history of winning as a Democrat in rural Western Iowa announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by Chuck Grassley today. Dave Muhlbauer, 37, a recent county supervisor and fifth-generation family farmer,...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds finished out the 2021 legislative session in fitting fashion late Wednesday night, signing into law a hastily-passed bill to immediately ban schools from enforcing mask policies. Just over her shoulder during the ceremony was an anti-mask,...
Videos have quickly circulated on Facebook in Iowa over the past day that show an incident from a Sioux City Perkins restaurant early Thursday morning where a police officer instructs a Black man to leave the premises, grabs ahold of his arm, pushes the man on a...
Iowa Starting Line is entering another expansion phase as we build out our newsroom in 2021 and focus on developing a broader readership audience in Iowa. In particular, we plan on expanding our social media reach and producing stories that better reach Iowans...
