The past weekend’s immigration raids across the country by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) have immigrant communities living in fear and confusion. Trump’s indiscriminate...
The Iowa House and Senate are set tonight to ram through the Republican bill that thoroughly dismantles Iowa's collective bargaining law. Speaker Linda Upmeyer and Senate Leader Bill Dix have...
Iowans might assume the Iowa Republican controlled Legislature’s anti-labor collective bargaining bill resulted from a massive demand from their Iowa constituents. That assumption would be wrong...
In the highly contentious battle to extinguish public worker rights, Iowa Republicans have attempted a divide-and-conquer approach to pit unions against each other. Their legislation splits...
I won’t beat around the bush. I’m dismayed by President Donald Trump’s decision to keep people from entering the United States if they are citizens of one of seven nations where a majority of...
Dallas County residents were outraged this week when they found out their vote may well have not been counted in the 2016 election. There has been at least some local consequences for the Dallas...
Ankeny residents have had enough. A boisterous crowd of well over 400 packed the room at a legislative forum hosted by the local chamber of commerce at a community education building in Ankeny....
Angry crowds of Iowans packed legislative forums and listening sessions across the state once again this Saturday. Opponents to Republicans' far-reaching and fast-tracked agenda easily...
While frustrated Democratic activists and voters are vowing to unseat Republican legislators in 2018 for their recent votes, an earlier test for the party out of power looms in 2017: municipal...
Yesterday the Republican controlled Senate Labor Committee passed the most devastating blow to the rights of public service employees in over 40 years. Republican Senator Jason Schultz,...
