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Happy hour in Iowa City: 9 of the best places
Plus: Only in Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗞 See more from us: Add Iowa Starting Line as a preferred news source on Google. 🎃 It’s Friday and the beginning of spooky season! Last week, I asked you if and when you decorate for fall and Halloween. This week, I’m…
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The terms matter more than the headline
Plus: Your mailbag, Amendment 1, and the Epstein Reading Room Reader mailbag Reporter’s Notebook with political correspondent Zachary Oren Smith does a weekly Q&A. Send your questions here. “Is Josh Turek a better baller than you?” — Lily, Iowa Starting Line’s state organizing coordinator and my #1 op Lily, I want to say this is…
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Des Moines teacher wins $75k for welding program
Plus: What you thought of Iowa’s billionaire and more reader letters Share with a friend 🗞 See more from us: Add Iowa Starting Line as a preferred news source on Google. Amie here. It’s gonna be October already, somehow?! Have you noticed any leaves changing yet? Here in Waterloo, I noticed the Virginia creeper’s gotten…
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8 U-pick apple farms across Iowa to check out
Plus: Positively Iowa and your photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗞 See more from us: Add Iowa Starting Line as a preferred news source on Google. 🎃 It’s Friday and nearly October (!). I suppose that means Halloween’s coming. Do you decorate for Halloween? When do you put up your decorations? Reply…
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Bisexuality Awareness Week has been busy…
Share with a friend 🗞 See more from us: Add Iowa Starting Line as a preferred source on Google. Amie here. Today’s the start of autumn—if you couldn’t already tell with temperatures in the 50s! 🥶 What makes it feel like fall to you? “It’s fall in Iowa when the leave begin to change…
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A hog farmer lost everything. He says Congress could do it again.
Inside: Your Iowa politics questions Share with a friend Special Edition: Reporter’s Notebook What one sentence in a 400-word bill means for Iowa’s hog farmers—plus more reader questions. I recently read a bill you could print on two pages. Then I read a 90-page legal analysis explaining how those two pages matter more…
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Lone Tree esports coach wins Teacher of the Year
Plus: Positively Iowa and your photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday. Time for Only in Iowa, this week’s photo, Positively Iowa, and news you can use. It’s Doodle Bug time in Webster City. Next weekend is the third-annual African Festival of Arts and Culture in Iowa City. Help clean up an…
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What makes it autumn in Iowa?
Plus: Your letters and the post that got the most comments Share with a friend Amie here. I don’t think it even got to 70 degrees yesterday in Waterloo. I was actually contemplating busting out the space heater at one point. To me, IT’S FALL Y’ALL. 🍁 But what makes it fall to you?…
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Cedar Rapids 50+ team wins 3rd-straight title
Plus: Positively Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11. I was 17 years old, a senior in high school, when our teachers turned on the TVs so we could watch the horror unfold: the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon on fire and then…
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7-year-old with medical condition kicked out of 2 private schools
Plus: News bites and reader soundoff Share with a friend Amie here. It’s my birthday and I’m feeling very sure of the answer to life, the universe, and everything today! In this issue: One-sentence news bites, this week’s most talked-about post, and readers had a lot to say this past week, and I’m letting…
