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Iowa tied for worst for hospital quality
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! Name a snowplow is back in Black Hawk County: Enter your clever names here. Yes, it’s normal to mow right now: But Iowans had to tell…
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A Mt. Pleasant man is facing deportation. Here’s how you can help
News about and for the working class Share with a friend The kidnapping goon squad gutting our workforce keeps rolling to more cities across the US. Its newest target is Charlotte, North Carolina, and soon ICE and Border Patrol will bring their terror to New Orleans. But deportations of immigrant workers continue to happen…
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Trump just smoked Iowa’s hemp industry
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Tuesday, and I’ve got protests/events, the seven tactics used by authoritarians, and this week’s viral post. But first: If you don’t care about your civil liberties, or whether anything could go wrong during pregnancy, Iowa is a pretty good place to raise a…
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The mysterious death of a Marshalltown movie star
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! The record-long government shutdown is over: Here’s when different things (air travel, back pay) should start getting back to normal. Des Moines bar apologizes for letting Nazi…
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UAW president unloads on CNH after Burlington closure
News about and for the working class Share with a friend As I mentioned last week, Case New Holland (CNH) announced it would close its Burlington plant by mid-2026, with 200 workers laid off as a result. The company blamed it on the agricultural industry downturn broadly affecting sales. (US Sen. Chuck Grassley said…
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🥶 Hell must have frozen over: Miller-Meeks held a town hall
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Tuesday, and I’ve got protests/events, a quick explainer on community organizing, and this week’s viral post. But first: It was so cold Monday. (pauses for “How cold was it?”) It was so cold that THIS happened: Rep. Miller-Meeks announced the town hall—her first…
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Marshalltown shows us how to resist ICE
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! My take: Don’t ever let a Nazi in your Iowa bar. I’m still getting lovely autumn scenes from y’all—keep them coming! “We waited until the…
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No SNAP? How to help fellow Iowans
News about and for the working class Share with a friend Well, it happened: SNAP benefits ended Nov. 1 for 42 million Americans for the very first time in history. That includes 267,000 Iowans, 40% of whom are children, going without their grocery money this week. It’s because of the ongoing federal government shutdown,…
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🗳️ Did you vote yet? It’s Election Day!
Plus: Protests, rallies, and more Share with a friend Amie here. It’s Election Day Tuesday! Plus, I’ve got protests/events, a quick authoritarianism explainer, and this week’s viral post. But first: It’s time to throw the bums out, keep the good ones in, and decide where your tax money should go. It’s city/school Election Day! Forgot all…
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🎃 Happy Halloween!
Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday and All Hallows’ Eve (lest you think even one US holiday has been untouched by Christianity). Hope you saved some of that candy for the trick-or-treaters! My take: We’ve had a couple of wins for the Constitution in Iowa lately. A…
