Amie here. I HAVE A COMPUTER AGAIN! I don’t know if you all have had to work exclusively on a mobile device (I switched between an old iPad and my phone), but boy am I glad to be typing this on a laptop again.

Let’s get to it:

• 5 news bites in 5 sentences,
• this week’s most talked-about post, and
• readers keep trying to tell me I’m wrong (and mostly failing!)

• Here are free things to do across Iowa over the coming Labor Day weekend.

• Take advantage of early September to get outside and enjoy some of Iowa’s best early fall activities.

  
  

• Stock trading in Congress is widely frowned upon, and now there are competing proposals to stop it.

• Iowa is one of the states that voluntarily turned over unredacted voter information to the feds.

• What do you think of Rob Sand’s new affordability plan?

Iowa hasn’t run a governor’s race without an incumbent in almost a decade, and this year voters are being asked to choose between two candidates who each say the old playbook—from their own parties—isn’t working for Iowans.

Whoever wins will set the state’s course on healthcare, property taxes, water quality, and public schools for the next four years.

Read the details here.

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