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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…
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Should Iowa Satanic Temple get to host Capitol event?
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s definitely winter in Iowa now! This weekend, I learned there was a limit to my smallish, battery-operated snowblower, and that limit is 14 inches of snow. (Fort Dodge, sorry to hear you got the worst of it.) Now that we’re all (mostly)…
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Get in Iowans, we’re going boycotting
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Tuesday of our shortened Thanksgiving week. That means this will be your only newsletter from me this week. Remember to boycott the big box stores promoting authoritarianism (see below), shop small this Saturday (and every day you can!), and (most importantly) enjoy time…
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Iowa tied for worst for hospital quality
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! Name a snowplow is back in Black Hawk County: Enter your clever names here. Yes, it’s normal to mow right now: But Iowans had to tell…
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Trump just smoked Iowa’s hemp industry
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Tuesday, and I’ve got protests/events, the seven tactics used by authoritarians, and this week’s viral post. But first: If you don’t care about your civil liberties, or whether anything could go wrong during pregnancy, Iowa is a pretty good place to raise a…
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The mysterious death of a Marshalltown movie star
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! The record-long government shutdown is over: Here’s when different things (air travel, back pay) should start getting back to normal. Des Moines bar apologizes for letting Nazi…
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🥶 Hell must have frozen over: Miller-Meeks held a town hall
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Tuesday, and I’ve got protests/events, a quick explainer on community organizing, and this week’s viral post. But first: It was so cold Monday. (pauses for “How cold was it?”) It was so cold that THIS happened: Rep. Miller-Meeks announced the town hall—her first…
