As Iowa's ethanol industry suffers at the hands of President Donald Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Joni Ernst continues to complain about the Cabinet official she helped to confirm. "I would assess that there are a lot of people within this...
State Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a physician from Ottumwa, has announced her campaign to try for a fourth time to represent Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Miller-Meeks, in the midst of her first term representing Senate District 41 in the Iowa Legislature,...
If Julián Castro is to do well in the Iowa Caucus, one thing he'll likely need is strong turnout from the state's growing Latinx community. But when he visited Perry, Iowa late last month-- a town where nearly 40 percent of its residents are of Hispanic or Latino...
Nearly a fifth of Iowan households do not make enough to live without public assistance, a new Iowa Policy Project report has found, due to factors like rising housing costs. According to the Cost of Living in Iowa report, released last Tuesday, family budget costs...
Following his rise in national and Iowa polling, Andrew Yang made an appearance in Northwest Iowa with the pitch he’s been making all summer. Soon, machines and artificial intelligence will be doing the jobs currently held by the majority of Americans, Yang argued....
Mitch McConnell's Republican-led Senate began another two-week recess today, once again leaving Capitol Hill without debating gun safety legislation. The House and Senate will be back in session Oct. 15. But with an election year looming and an impeachment inquiry...
Abby Bankes, an 18-year-old Drake University freshman from Oak Park, Illinois, has always had politics as a part of her life. But the first political event of her life as a college student? The historical, record-breaking Polk County Democrats Steak Fry. It was...
A guest piece from Clinton Petersen of Breda, Iowa. September is National Recovery Month, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). 2019 marks the 30th year that National Recovery Month is celebrated. I’m writing because I...
When Tom Steyer talks about the House's move this past week to launch an impeachment investigation, most of his sentences begin with "my point on this all along" or "as I've always been saying." And it's true, Steyer, the former California businessman now running...
Affordable housing has an unofficial figurehead as the national crisis makes its debut as a major issue on the presidential campaign trail this cycle. Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, served as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary for...
