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12 can’t-miss Iowa summer festivals
Plus: Only in Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday and Memorial Day weekend. I’ll protest the US starting wars, but I’m grateful for and mourn those who signed up to defend us and paid with their lives. This year, that includes the six Iowans who were the…
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37 private flights to Kansas while running for Iowa governor
Plus: Protests and reader soundoff Share with a friend Amie here. Memorial Day came up on us fast! (So did this summer humidity. 🥵) In this issue: Candidate events and protests, this week’s viral post, and reader soundoff. Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor, Iowa Starting Line Email me Featured protests and rallies: 📅…
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Your guide to Iowa’s theme park season
Plus: Only in Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday. You can officially start voting early in the primary election (more on that below). Time for Only in Iowa, this week’s photo, Positively Iowa, and news you can use. The primary election—aka, voters registered with a recognized political party picking…
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Cash for crowds at a Vance rally? We’ve got the scoop
Plus: Protests and reader soundoff Share with a friend 👽 Amie here. Files were released this weekend! (Ope, not the files we really wanted released, though.) In this issue: Candidate events and protests, this week’s viral post, and reader soundoff. Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor, Iowa Starting Line Email me Featured protests and rallies:…
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Name an Iowa female athlete besides Caitlin Clark
Plus: Only in Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday, and Mother’s Day is this Sunday. Time for Only in Iowa, this week’s (dog) family photo, Positively Iowa, and news you can use. Unleaded gas is $4.44 in Ottumwa. Where is it where you’re at? Reply and tell…
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80% of Iowans agree, so of course they do THIS
Plus: Protests and reader soundoff Share with a friend Amie here. This week is National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives. You can also help the family of an Iowa City man from Bolivia who is about to be deported to a war-torn country he knows nothing about. In this…
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Des Moines billboard asks: ‘Having doubts?’
Plus: Only in Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday and May Day. Time for Only in Iowa, this week’s photo, Positively Iowa, and news you can use: This is cool: See your name in Landsat, or satellite photos of Earth from space. Are you a college student in…
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May Day rallies, Workers Memorial Day events + more
Plus: Viral post and reader soundoff Share with a friend Amie here. Busy week for protests and rallies—there’s Workers Memorial Day events happening, plus May Day rallies and strikes and teacher walk-ins and walkouts! In this issue: Candidate events and protests, this week’s viral post, and reader soundoff. Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor, Iowa Starting…
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Viral Iowa restaurants worthy of their rep
Plus: Only in Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday! Today I learned George Foreman’s family buried him in Iowa, despite him not having much connection to the state. Here’s why. We have a new website as of yesterday, and I’m reporting as many issues as I can…
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On 4/20, Rob Sand dropped his legal weed plan
Plus: Protests and reader soundoff Share with a friend Amie here. Happy National Library Week, put on by that extremist group *checks notes* the American Library Association. As always, send me reviews of the books you’ve read recently! Tomorrow is also Earth Day, always a good day to pick up some trash, plant a tree,…
