Newsletters
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🗣️ ‘Start Doing the Right Thing, Chuck’
Share with a friend It’s Friday, Apr. 11, 2025. 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for the Reader Sound-Off, where our main export is tariff-free hot takes! But first, here’s the Pet Photo of the Week: These are Jet and Ruby, “new puppies added to the family” in February, says reader Bonnie A. Trying to disguise…
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Please, we want to hear your opinion
We want this newsletter to continue to be something you look forward to arriving in your inbox every day Dear reader, As a valued member of our newsletter community, hearing from you is incredibly important to us. We know you’ve got other options for news in Iowa, and we want this newsletter to continue to…
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What Iowa’s Electeds Are (Not) Doing About Tariffs
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2025. Amie here, and yes, the stock market’s 11% loss is not great for our retirements. But what’s more concerning is prices getting a hell of a lot higher on basic goods in the coming weeks and months. Sure, only one doofus (helped by his…
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🗣️ ‘Who Wants Their TP Hanging Against the Wall?’
Share with a friend It’s Friday, Apr. 4, 2025. 🗣️ TGIF: Time for the Reader Sound-Off, where you get your say! But first: We’re bringing back the Pet Photo of the Week! I’ll start running them weekly on Fridays with your letters, so keep sending your pet photos my way! This guy with the sun…
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651 Laid Off at Whirlpool in Amana
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2025. Amie here, thinking about the 651 Iowans soon to be laid off by June 1 from Whirlpool in Amana, about a third of its workforce. It’s the biggest mass layoff of the year in Iowa (so far), and the largest since Tyson closed its Perry…
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🗣️ ‘This Bill is Bulls—‘
Share with a friend It’s Friday, Mar. 28, 2025. 🗣️ TGIF: Time for the Reader Sound-Off, where we share some of the feedback you all have sent me directly. But before I do, I wanted to thank you all for your donations to our fundraising drive! We had hoped to raise $2,000 from…
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Anti-Apprenticeship Bill Rushed Through Iowa Legislature
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025. Amie here. There are lots of bills winding their way through the Iowa Legislature in a hurry now. But this one stuck out. I mentioned in last week’s newsletter how Iowa Republicans passed a controversial bill stopping local governments from requiring workforce training standards…
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Guess Who’s Unionized?!
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday Thursday, Mar. 20, 2025. Amie here. I’ve written about labor and unions and union organizing in Iowa for Starting Line for a few years now. Yet, I am not, nor have ever been in my journalism career, a card-carrying union member. That is, until today. My…
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🗣️ ‘More People Will Be Living Hand to Mouth’
Share with a friend It’s Friday, Mar. 14, 2025. 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for the Reader Sound-Off, where we share some of the feedback you all have sent me directly. Keep it coming! Share your thoughts here 💗 But first, some Positively Iowa news: 💗 🐶 Iowa has a dog in the fight:…
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Coralville Costco Would Be 1st in Midwest to Unionize
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2025. Amie here. I may be changing around my newsletters a bit, but don’t worry: The Iowa Worker’s Almanac isn’t going anywhere. First of all, news about what folks are going through on the job is kind of the main thing we all worry about:…
