Videos
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Is Iowa Rep. Dean Fisher a conflict of interest?
Iowa Rep. Dean Fisher voted for vouchers that use public funds to subsidize private schools. Two months later, he founded Tama-Toledo Christian School, which received $200,000 in school vouchers during its first year of operation.
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Why is Rob Sand set to sink social media?
Juries ruled Meta and Google hurt kids. Rob Sand’s answer: ban social media under 16 in Iowa — and go after the algorithms behind it. Is that the right fix?
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Des Moines teacher and state Senate candidate takes apart Iowa’s voucher program
Iowa has spent over $1 billion on private school vouchers—and 80% of the students using them were already in private school.
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Lindsay James: Corporations shouldn’t get tax breaks after abandoning American workers
Democratic candidate for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District Lindsay James says companies should not be allowed to take massive tax breaks, abandon the workers who built their success, and then ship those jobs overseas without consequences.
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Whose bacon is Ashley Hinson really saving?
Farmers in her own district call it a giveaway to a Chinese-owned pork giant that funds her campaigns.
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Rob Sand is back as Hinterland’s tour guide
The Democratic candidate for governor and longtime festivalgoer walks through what attendees should know, with some help from his dog, Pow.
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Workers at Iowa’s public universities are unionizing
The state doesn’t want university workers to be able to bargain their working conditions. But workers may have found a way.
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Three Iowa women could flip the House
DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene pointed to Christina Bohannan, Sarah Trone Garriott, and Lindsay James as the kind of leadership Iowa needs after Trump’s policies have negatively impacted Iowans.
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Obama says Iowans are “ready for change” in key Senate race
Barack Obama says his 2008 Iowa campaign remains his favorite experience in politics, recalling the “magic” of Iowans coming together to shape the country’s future.
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Who’s actually paying for Iowa’s farm crisis?
Filling a 750-gallon farm fuel tank cost Iowa farmers around $1,500 more this spring than last.
