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🪧 Venezuela, ICE protests around Iowa
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend It’s Friday, January 9, 2026. 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and reader replies. ICE and Venezuela protests: After a woman was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis this week (donate to a…
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Have you caught the ‘super flu’ yet?
Plus: Protests, viral post of the week, and more Share with a friend Amie here. Lucky me, I caught one of the viruses going around Iowa during break. It’s likely the “super flu” variant going around (not covered by the shot), as flu activity is “very high” across the state right now (and the nation…
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🎇 What’s giving you hope in 2026?
Plus: Positively Iowa and what got us through Share with a friend Amie here. It’s been a tough year. For those of us who believe a better, more just world is possible, watching our state and federal leaders make it smaller and meaner has been disheartening and demoralizing. For those of us going through…
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Miller-Meeks represents Iowa’s 1st. She lives in Iowa’s 3rd
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. Happy shortened holiday week! This will be the only email from us this week; I’ll have one for you on Dec. 30, and then we’re back the week of Jan. 5. In this issue: A special election for Central Iowans, protests and rallies,…
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💜 9 Iowa acts of kindness we loved in 2025
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course, reader replies! Polk County baby gets measles: An infant who was too young to get vaccinated has contracted measles after they “recently traveled to an area where…
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Conservative Iowa mom denied care during fatal pregnancy
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. Happy week-before-Xmas! In this issue: Candidate meet-ups, protests and rallies, and this week’s viral post. What is nitrate, and why is it my problem? Prairie Rivers of Iowa has launched a new short video series explaining it all. Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor,…
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7 immigrant-owned Iowa businesses to support this holiday season
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course, reader replies! Kum & Gone: It truly is the end of an era. What do you think about these new automated license plate readers popping up…
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What to know about today’s special election in Northwest Iowa
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. This better not be how winter’s gonna be this year, I tell you what! Photo of me trying to go grocery shopping this weekend. I’ve got candidates, protests, news, and a viral post to start your week. Special election today: Tuesday, Dec. 9, is the…
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❄️ Winter in Iowa: Horse-drawn sleighs, magical festivals, and more
Plus: Ways you can give back this season Support Amie here. I don’t always look forward to the darker days of winter, to the holidays, to the next few months of cold and snow. I’ll tell you what always gets me through: Remembering the goodness in people, and in my fellow Iowans, especially. So that’s…
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🎄 Chop your own Christmas tree at these 12 Iowa farms
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday! Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course, reader replies! 🪧 Tomorrow: Join striking Starbucks Iowa City baristas for a rally at noon Saturday outside the store at 228 S. Clinton St., which they’re encouraging…
