On Wednesday night, six of the eight Republican candidates in the party’s first presidential primary debate committed to support former President Donald Trump if he wins the party’s nomination—even if he’s convicted in a court of law for the many crimes he’s been...
The Iowa State Fair may be a good place for conspirators to be in public, to say the quiet part out loud, and hardly get noticed. People are too busy eating food on sticks and taking pictures of the Butter Cow. If you happen to walk by the “Fair-Side Chats,” you may...
Three months after the Waterloo City Council passed a ban on conversion therapy for minors, the council reversed its decision in a 4-3 vote Monday. The controversial decision comes just days before Cedar Valley Pridefest begins. Why did the council repeal it? Waterloo...
Meet the two Indigenous sisters running for local office in Sioux City: Trisha Rivers and Jessica Lopez-Walker. Both are enrolled members of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, a sovereign and federally-recognized Native American nation near Sioux City. Rivers is...
Another parent in Johnston is fighting efforts to restrict access to books in schools, and she’s doing it with a box in her front yard.
Republican Congressman Zach Nunn does not yet have a Democratic challenger for next year’s election, but a new coalition called “Fairness for Iowa” is taking aim at his voting record, arguing he is not actually representing the people of Iowa’s 3rd Congressional...
Depending on the day, your Starting Line team had up to seven people on the ground to help cover the Iowa State Fair. With that many people working and recording video, you're bound to accumulate a lot of footage, especially on Saturday where multiple presidential...
A Republican congresswoman holding an open town hall in the bluest part of Iowa was shouted down for saying a federal assault weapons ban was “ineffective.”
There's nothing quite like the Iowa State Fair during caucus campaign season. And this year's circus was particularly intense, due largely to the Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis showdown on Saturday. Throughout the hot, sun-filled days, several key scenes revealed where the...
Dr. Amy Bingaman knows there may come a time in the near future when she might have to choose between her Iowa medical license or the life of a pregnant person she is treating. “I could never imagine letting a woman die on my watch when I could intervene,” Bingaman...
