🗣️ It’s Friday. 

Time for three quick briefs, Only in Iowa, and news you can use.

Curious about what this year’s best new fair food finalists tasted like? We bought them for fairgoers to get their reactions—watch here.

(Pictured above: me enjoying the Ultimate Minneapple Pie.)

Work touches nearly every part of life in Iowa—yet news about job cuts, pay, workplace safety, and labor laws is often scattered or hard to follow.

This free newsletter brings it together in one place.

Thanks for reading. This newsletter was written by Amie Rivers with stories by Lily Jackson and Zachary Oren Smith,  It was edited by Paula Solis.

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