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🗞️ Please, we want to hear your opinion again
What’s one thing you’d change about how you get news here? Dear Iowa Starting Line reader, Thank you for being a part of the community we’re building here at Iowa Starting Line. As a reader supported news organization, you’re at the center of everything we do. Our audience grew significantly last year, and we’d like…
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Where to find fish frys in NE Iowa
Plus: Positively Iowa & pet photos! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday. Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim readers! Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and news you can use. It’s Public Schools Week next week, but Iowa public schools aren’t doing great. Maybe we should fund them? Nah,…
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7 Brew workers left out in the cold
Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. An Iowa TikTok creator thought she was calling attention to a specific problem in Des Moines. She had no idea the problems at this coffee chain were so widespread—until hundreds of messages began pouring in. “The number of people I’ve…
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Hope you haven’t changed your last name, women!
Plus: Meet a candidate, protests, and a viral post Share with a friend Amie here. As someone who has changed my last name from what it was at birth, the current SAVE Act currently in the US Senate is a tad worrisome. (Scroll down for more on that.) New map for Iowa cancer rates by…
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Iowa’s Winter Olympians and Paralympians to watch
Plus: Positively Iowa & pet photos! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday the 13th, and Galentine’s Day: Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and news you can use. (NOTE: I am moving reader replies to Tuesdays to shorten this one up a bit, so find them there next week!)…
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Evelyn K. Davis’ legacy of helping working-class Iowans
Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. If you’re from the Des Moines area, you probably know the name Evelyn K. Davis. There’s a park named after her, a community center, and more. But who was Evelyn K. Davis, and why does her legacy still matter for working…
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Valentine’s Day? In THIS economy?
Plus: Meet a candidate, protests, and a viral post Share with a friend Amie here. We’re still having Valentine’s Day? In THIS economy? (Link goes to the most depressing candy heart messages you’ve ever seen.) Where’s the beef? Beef industry groups are once again looking for nominations for Iowa’s Best Burger. Nominations opened yesterday and…
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🗣️ Your letters: ‘Communist bastards’ and Buxton stories
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 reader replies. I give it three stars: Want to help fight increasing light pollution? Check out the Orion constellation this month or next, then report your findings to the Globe…
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This former Iowa town was a workers’ utopia
Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. Have you heard about the Iowa town that became a utopia for Black workers over a hundred years ago? (It’s one of my favorite Black History Month stories.) Watch the latest edition of Clocked In on: YouTube Instagram Facebook TikTok Buxton,…
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Iowa’s little-known Black history
Plus: Meet a candidate, protests, and a viral post Share with a friend Amie here. It’s February, the shortest month, and that clearly sedated groundhog saw his shadow yesterday, meaning six more weeks of winter (ughhhhh). It’s Black History Month. Here are some cool stories of Black Iowa history you might not know about.…
