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Iowans can’t decide: supreme or meat lovers?
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader replies! My take: I don’t live in Avoca, so maybe y’all have been inundated with loud cars, and I’m off base here. But if it’s mostly four or five loud cars that are the problem, can’t law enforcement…
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Support for capitalism at record low
News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. Americans are starting to sour on capitalism. That’s according to the latest Gallup survey, which found the number of US adults who say they support capitalism—”an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods,” per Merriam-Webster—is at…
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How Iowans can lower their cancer risk
The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa Share with a friend Amie here. This series on the various ways we can get cancer can be depressing, I know. Our water quality is crap! We’re the highest in radon! Our politicians don’t seem to care! But that doesn’t mean we’re all doomed to get…
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Flu is supposed to be bad this year; here’s what to do
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader replies! Iowa news briefs: It’s September, AKA the start of fall and flu season. And if the southern hemisphere’s flu season was any indication, we’re in for a bad one this year. (Go get your flu shot!) Have…
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Does your union’s endorsement matter?
News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. Labor unions are just starting to endorse candidates for 2026. It’s still very early for this, but here are a few I’ve seen so far: Rob Sand, running for governor, was endorsed by Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa…
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The cancer risk hiding in most Iowa homes
The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa Share with a friend Amie here. Our cancer series is personal to all of us. But this week’s cancer story is especially personal for me. Longtime subscribers know I lost my mom to lung cancer in 2017, and doctors suspected (because she didn’t have a history…
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BREAKING: Joni Ernst won’t run, per CBS News
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader repl—WAIT, BREAKING NEWS: This might not be a huge surprise. Republicans were already souring on her, and prominent Democrats have been lining up to face her in November, with one candidate—state Sen. Zach Wahls—even besting her in…
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These Iowa workers have a higher risk of cancer
News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. If you’re an Iowan, you already have a higher cancer risk than the rest of the US for reasons we’re currently exploring in ISL’s Cancer in Iowa series. But some workers face extra cancer risks. This week’s story, in…
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Why Iowa has the same skin cancer rate as Arizona
The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa Share with a friend For decades, tanning used to be a regular part of some (mainly white) folks’ beauty routines. In my parents’ era, that meant slathering on tanning oil and lying out in a swimsuit in direct sunlight. In my era, that meant frequenting a tanning salon,…
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Have you seen the mountain lion in Iowa?
Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader replies! My take: I will not at all be surprised if Iowa Republicans try to pass this unconstitutional Oklahoma BS here when the legislative session starts back up in January. Here’s hoping I’m wrong. Iowa news briefs: Mountain…
