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👨🏫 Ty Is Leaving Us And We Are Not OK
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: July 19, 2024. 😢 Today, Starting Line is without its chief political correspondent, newsroom leader, and all-around great guy to work with. Ty Rushing’s last day with Iowa Starting Line was yesterday. He’ll join the University of Iowa faculty in…
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☕️ 2nd Starbucks in Iowa Unionizes: Here’s How
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 17, 2024. A second Starbucks has officially unionized in Iowa—and two workers I spoke with say they were almost the first. Eighteen workers at the Starbucks store on East 53rd Street in Davenport filed with the National Labor Relations Board…
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🌞 Baseball, the Best Ice Cream, and Your Guide to the State Fair
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: July 12, 2024. Inside baseball: Iowa Rep. JD Scholten was back on the mound this past weekend, as a last-choice fill-in pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers, and the 44-year-old was so good in nearly 7 innings of work that he…
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🏥 Mercy Workers Say They Were Ignored in Hospital Merger
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 10, 2024. You probably heard about the very public bankruptcy of Iowa City’s *other* hospital, Mercy Iowa City. You may have also heard that the hospital and around 1,000 jobs were saved when University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) agreed…
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🏡 Flood Hits Northwest Iowa (And More Coming)
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 26, 2024. I was planning to write about the Iowa governor vs. labor this week: Gov. Kim Reynolds was to appear in North Liberty Monday after the federal government cracked down on restaurants following Iowa’s lax child labor laws, which go…
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🍓 Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon Collide!
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s Friday, June 21, 2024. The summer solstice, or longest day of the year—when the North Pole is most tilted toward the sun—was yesterday. But if you’re looking for fun Iowa solstice events, there are a few you can still check out this weekend; read…
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❗️Gov. Reynolds Is Mad A Judge Just Blocked This Law
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 19, 2024. “As a matter of politics, the new legislation might be defensible. As a matter of constitutional law, it is not.” That’s US District Judge Stephen Locher, issuing a temporary injunction against Iowa’s SF 2340. It’s a win for the…
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🪧 This Law is ‘Absurd Political Theater’
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Recent Iowa immigrants and allies are still fighting against an Iowa immigration law they say unfairly discriminates against and targets them. Lawyers with the US Department of Justice and the American Immigration Council argued in court Monday that a…
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🌈 15 Iowa Pride Fests to Attend
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend ICYMI from last night: It’s Friday, May 31, 2024. Hey there folks, it’s Amie, and happy kick-off weekend to Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 Longtime readers of this newsletter probably know I am one of The Gays™. But what you might not know is that, for 10…
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🦺 Iowa Construction Worker Killed on I-80
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 29, 2024. An Iowa highway worker was killed on Interstate 80 near Weston, Iowa, earlier this month. Matthew Dickerson, 36, of Neola was working to patch holes in the left lane of eastbound I-80 on May 16…
