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Who is Iowa’s lone billionaire?
Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend 🗞 See more from us: Add Iowa Starting Line as a preferred news source on Google. Welcome to Thursday’s Almanac, for and about Iowa’s workers. Got a comment on a story? Reply and tell me; I read every email. If break time’s over,…
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Bisexuality Awareness Week has been busy…
Share with a friend 🗞 See more from us: Add Iowa Starting Line as a preferred source on Google. Amie here. Today’s the start of autumn—if you couldn’t already tell with temperatures in the 50s! 🥶 What makes it feel like fall to you? “It’s fall in Iowa when the leave begin to change…
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A hog farmer lost everything. He says Congress could do it again.
Inside: Your Iowa politics questions Share with a friend Special Edition: Reporter’s Notebook What one sentence in a 400-word bill means for Iowa’s hog farmers—plus more reader questions. I recently read a bill you could print on two pages. Then I read a 90-page legal analysis explaining how those two pages matter more…
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Lone Tree esports coach wins Teacher of the Year
Plus: Positively Iowa and your photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday. Time for Only in Iowa, this week’s photo, Positively Iowa, and news you can use. It’s Doodle Bug time in Webster City. Next weekend is the third-annual African Festival of Arts and Culture in Iowa City. Help clean up an…
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They’re stealing $900 million a year. He’s trying to stop it
Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Welcome to Thursday’s Almanac, for and about Iowa’s workers. If break time’s over, here’s the tl;dr: Iowa workers are stiffed $900 million a year. This candidate wants to stop that theft; Iowa’s child labor problem is 10x worse than the national rate; Upcoming…
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What makes it autumn in Iowa?
Plus: Your letters and the post that got the most comments Share with a friend Amie here. I don’t think it even got to 70 degrees yesterday in Waterloo. I was actually contemplating busting out the space heater at one point. To me, IT’S FALL Y’ALL. 🍁 But what makes it fall to you?…
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Cedar Rapids 50+ team wins 3rd-straight title
Plus: Positively Iowa and the photo of the week! Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11. I was 17 years old, a senior in high school, when our teachers turned on the TVs so we could watch the horror unfold: the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon on fire and then…
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Amendment 1: a tax on Iowa’s workers?
Inside: news about and for the working class Share with a friend Welcome to Thursday’s Almanac, for and about Iowa’s workers. If break time’s over, here’s the tl;dr: Will Amendment 1 in Iowa prevent us from raising taxes on the rich? Rents are rising faster in Cedar Rapids Read about the Norma Rae of…
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7-year-old with medical condition kicked out of 2 private schools
Plus: News bites and reader soundoff Share with a friend Amie here. It’s my birthday and I’m feeling very sure of the answer to life, the universe, and everything today! In this issue: One-sentence news bites, this week’s most talked-about post, and readers had a lot to say this past week, and I’m letting…
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Show your work: Inside this week’s mailbag
Plus: How to vote in Iowa—from Australia Share with a friend Special Edition Reader Mailbag: Show Your Work Two town halls, two very different answers to the same basic question—plus everything you asked me this week. I have a theory about public officials, and it’s not a complicated one: If you want to…
