Good morning readers! Starting Line is back after a couple days off for the Thanksgiving holiday and to attend to newly-arrived Baby Starting Line. We're now looking at the final two month sprint...
Guest Post from Every Child Matters Children are twenty-three percent of our population yet one hundred percent of our future. Decisions made today are critical to their success later in life. As...
Most people's idea of a fun 21st birthday celebration probably doesn't entail working from sunrise to midnight and getting serenaded by your guitar-playing boss in front of all your co-workers...
Hillary Clinton scored a major victory this past week by gaining the endorsement of SEIU, the healthcare workers union that represents over 2 million workers. That bumped the total membership of...
Young Iowans around the state were "feeling the Bern" Thursday night at mock caucuses held jointly by Democratic and Republican county parties and the Secretary of State's office. Sanders took...
Guest Post Bench Building Problem Democrats. The party of the young and idealistic. The party that looks toward the future and not the past. The party with policies to help the struggling 20 and...
And then there were 14. Or 13, depending on how you're counting. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ended his campaign for the Republican nomination on Tuesday, saying it was clear that 2016 simply...
Congressman Steve King's endorsement of Ted Cruz for the Iowa Caucus yesterday morning didn't come as too shocking a surprise. With Cruz gaining the most traction of any of the Tea...
The reverberations of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris continue to spread across the world and, predictably, quickly washed upon the shores of the U.S. presidential race. If the first few...
For a while on Saturday afternoon it looked like the Democratic debate might be lost to history as events in Paris overshadowed the day's affairs. The mood on Drake University's campus was...
