Newsletters
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I Need Your Help Covering Child Labor in Iowa
And more news for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Hey folks, it’s Amie. I just got back from an amazing 2-day course on reporting on the workplace, and am now even more psyched to dig deep into stories about Iowa workers’ struggles.…
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Tonight’s Freezing-Cold Caucus: Everything to Know
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s Iowa Caucus Day, Monday, Jan. 15. Hey folks, it’s Amie, and it’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Iowa Caucus Day! First, honor Dr. King’s legacy by attending one of the biggest MLK Day events across the state this year. And if what you’re…
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Positively Iowa: The Wrestler Who Found a Baby
And more good news from Iowa! Share with a friend It’s Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Put down that snow shovel and come get your good news! This week: Cyclone wrestlers find missing baby 👶 No more library fines in Des Moines 📚 Meeting Grandma for the first time 👵 Mother Nature thought it’d be…
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Iowa Students Demand Action After School Shooting
And remembering Ahmir Share with a friend It’s Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. This is a special edition of Iowa Starting Line. As the state reels from a school shooting at Perry High School on Jan. 4, more details are coming out about the 11-year-old victim, the principal who put himself in the line of fire…
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Positively Iowa: Granting Miracles for 25 Years
And more good news from Iowa! Share with a friend It’s Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Hey folks, it’s Amie, and it’s the first good news roundup from Iowa of 2024. And, boy, do we ever need it. This week: making wishes come true in Northwest Iowa 💗 Northeast Iowa native promoted to one-star general…
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School Shooting in Perry: Everything We Know Right Now
Share with a friend It’s Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. This is a breaking news edition of Iowa Starting Line. What happened A sixth-grader is dead and five others injured—one critically—after a school shooting at Perry High School in Perry. The incident happened just after 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, the first day back…
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We’re Just Not Feeding Iowa Kids Now?
And more working news you can use Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Hey folks, it’s Amie. Happy New Year! At a time when folks’ pocketbooks are pressed and national health insurance signups are at record highs (enroll now through Jan. 16!), at least we…
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Starting Line’s most ‘WTF’ stories of 2023
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s Friday, Dec. 29. Hey folks, it’s Amie, and we made it through 2023! (well, almost) The Gregorian calendar version. I like making New Year’s resolutions myself—those lofty goals our optimistic brains assume we’ll have no trouble achieving in a 12-month span. This year, I want…
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Not ‘White Christmas’ or ‘Die Hard:’ Here’s Your No. 1 Christmas Movie
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s Friday, Dec. 22. Hey folks, it’s Amie. From all of us at Iowa Starting Line, Merry Christmas, Heri za Kwanzaa, and happy all-the-things! Monday is Christmas, which as many know is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Tuesday begins the…
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Positively Iowa: How This Small Iowa Team Became a Dynasty
And more good news from Iowa! Share with a friend It’s Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Hey folks, it’s Amie, and it’s our last good news roundup from Iowa of 2023! Today is the winter solstice—the shortest, darkest day of the year (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere). But that just means the…
