Ty Rushing

Pottawattamie County will hold a special election on Aug. 1 to determine how future board of supervisors elections are conducted, a move community organizers and labor groups hope will create better representation in county government. The Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors approved the special election when it met Tuesday, in response to a petition from…

Just a few days into the launch of Iowa’s new private school voucher program, Iowa taxpayers are already projected to spend about $76 million on private school tuition next school year. Applications for Gov. Kim Reynolds’ new private school voucher program—called Students First Education Savings Accounts—opened on May 31. For the first three days of…

Iowans will get a chance to meet one of the “very best like no one ever was” this weekend at Des Moines Comic Con as longtime Pokémon voice actor Sarah Natochenny will be there to meet and greet with fans of the series. Since 2006, Natochenny has been the English voice of Ash Ketchum, Pokémon’s…

When you sit down at the kitchen table to discuss life’s biggest challenges with a family member, is your top concern Central Bank currency or gain-of-function research? If so, you may be Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ target audience for his presidential campaign in the Iowa Caucus. If not… well, large parts of his initial pitch…

Davenport, Iowa, is in the national spotlight after a building partially collapsed in the heart of its downtown over the weekend. Here’s what we know: What happened? A little before 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 28, Davenport first responders answered a call about a collapsed building at 324 Main Street. The six-story apartment building has…

As union construction workers practiced their trade in the background, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined Iowa officials Thursday to celebrate the progress of a $20 million update to the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. The project was made possible by funding from the Biden Administration’s infrastructure law.  “The bipartisan infrastructure package gave us…

When it was time to speak during Monday’s Hampton-Dumont School Board meeting, high school sophomore Isaac Vosburg delivered a clear message to district leaders: You let us down.   Flanked by four other Hampton-Dumont High School students at the podium, Isaac told Hampton-Dumont officials how disappointed he was in their decision to rescind an elementary school…

In April, a rural Iowa school district was set to hire Leslie Pralle Osborn as the new principal of its two elementary schools. That was until a local resident, who never met Osborn, started a Facebook campaign against her. His reason? He thought Osborn would bring a “woke agenda” to the community. On April 23,…

The 2023 Iowa Legislative wrapped up in early May, but the ramifications of what one Democratic lawmaker called “the most harmful and destructive” session ever will be felt for a while. The opening days of the session were all about rushing through Gov. Kim Reynolds’ taxpayer-funded private school tuition voucher plan, which predictably led to private…

The cost of attending a private K-12 school in Iowa will go up for many families in the 2023-24 school year even after Iowa Republicans at Gov. Kim Reynolds’ behest approved using hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to supposedly make private education affordable to all who want it. The first bill to pass in…