Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard interviews Spencer Kimball of Emerson Polling about the new poll in the governor's race and what all the numbers might mean. We also talk with Vicky Brenner,...
Perhaps Governor Kim Reynolds should just stay off planes. The AP's Ryan Foley reported this afternoon that Reynolds had once again taken a questionable plane ride paid for by a donor that has business with the state of Iowa. Dave North, the CEO of Sedgwick, a...
Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard interviews Rob Sand, Democratic candidate for State Auditor, about what it's like campaigning as a down-ballot candidate this year. Let us know what you think...
After years of state and national progress on healthcare access, Governor Kim Reynolds brought back one of the worst features of pre-ACA healthcare: denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. And the company that was chosen to offer up the new plans just so...
For Starting Line's fourth piece about important swing districts in the battle for the Iowa House, we look at three blue-collar seats spread around the state. Democrats are mostly on defense here, and they really can't afford to lose much in their effort to pick up...
Senator Cory Booker will headline the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest event of the year in early October, the party announced this afternoon. He's the featured guest for this year's Fall Gala (formerly known as the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner), which will be held on...
In the third in our series of looks at competitive Iowa House seats that could decide the majority, we focus on three districts that wrap around metro areas in Eastern Iowa. A variety of circumstances in each could provide Democrats chances to fill the final piece...
The $117 million in federal funding for the Cedar Rapids flood wall is not as was originally publicly promised, Starting Line has confirmed from multiple sources. Last month, city leaders were informed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that $41 million of the...
For the second in our series of in-depth looks at where the key Iowa House battlegrounds stand for November, we turn to suburban districts in the eastern part of the state. Iowa has seen similar trends to other parts of the country where suburban voters, who are...
Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard interviews Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon about his thought process on running for president, what he thinks the country can learn from his former colleague John...
