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✈️ Des Moines Allegiant pilot warns a strike could be coming
News about and for the working class Share with a friend “Allegiant needs to invest in their people and their pilots.” So says Tyler Heavey, a captain with Allegiant Airlines for the last six years. He told me he loves his job. But he doesn’t love the way the company has treated him…
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Conservative Iowa mom denied care during fatal pregnancy
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. Happy week-before-Xmas! In this issue: Candidate meet-ups, protests and rallies, and this week’s viral post. What is nitrate, and why is it my problem? Prairie Rivers of Iowa has launched a new short video series explaining it all. Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor,…
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7 immigrant-owned Iowa businesses to support this holiday season
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course, reader replies! Kum & Gone: It truly is the end of an era. What do you think about these new automated license plate readers popping up…
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☕️ Starbucks strike comes to Iowa: How you can help
News about and for the working class Share with a friend “The pressure keeps rising.” That’s what Jacob Scroggins told me recently. (If you don’t remember him from my earlier article on it, he’s a shift supervisor at the Merle Hay Road Starbucks in Des Moines who helped organize workers to form the fourth…
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What to know about today’s special election in Northwest Iowa
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. This better not be how winter’s gonna be this year, I tell you what! Photo of me trying to go grocery shopping this weekend. I’ve got candidates, protests, news, and a viral post to start your week. Special election today: Tuesday, Dec. 9, is the…
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❄️ Winter in Iowa: Horse-drawn sleighs, magical festivals, and more
Plus: Ways you can give back this season Support Amie here. I don’t always look forward to the darker days of winter, to the holidays, to the next few months of cold and snow. I’ll tell you what always gets me through: Remembering the goodness in people, and in my fellow Iowans, especially. So that’s…
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🎄 Chop your own Christmas tree at these 12 Iowa farms
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday! Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course, reader replies! 🪧 Tomorrow: Join striking Starbucks Iowa City baristas for a rally at noon Saturday outside the store at 228 S. Clinton St., which they’re encouraging…
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Hundreds of Des Moines nurses could unionize this weekend
News about and for the working class Share with a friend After a delayed vote because of the government shutdown, hundreds of nurses at four UnityPoint hospitals in the Des Moines area are voting this weekend on whether to unionize with Teamsters Local 90—an election being closely watched by non-union nurses across Iowa who are also…
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Should Iowa Satanic Temple get to host Capitol event?
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s definitely winter in Iowa now! This weekend, I learned there was a limit to my smallish, battery-operated snowblower, and that limit is 14 inches of snow. (Fort Dodge, sorry to hear you got the worst of it.) Now that we’re all (mostly)…
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Get in Iowans, we’re going boycotting
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Tuesday of our shortened Thanksgiving week. That means this will be your only newsletter from me this week. Remember to boycott the big box stores promoting authoritarianism (see below), shop small this Saturday (and every day you can!), and (most importantly) enjoy time…
