Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said at a recent town hall meeting in Emmet County that politicians should "sit down behind closed doors" as a way to avoid public scrutiny when discussing was to fix Social Security policy. A video clip of Ernst this past Saturday at a school...
Letter to the editor from Eliseo Flores of Des Moines, a recent graduate from Grandview University and summer intern for Julián Castro. Photo of Flores and his grandmother. "There is no substitute for hard work." I remember these words ringing in my head throughout...
A letter to the editor from Susan Wulf Osvald of Exira, Iowa. No other person running for president has spent as much time in Iowa as John Delaney. He made his second visit to Audubon County, one of Iowa’s smallest in population, when he came to Exira, my hometown,...
Abby Finkenauer took her public service career to Washington, D.C., with her election to Congress in 2018, but she hasn't forgotten her roots in the Iowa Legislature. Her second term in the Iowa House saw the 2017 and 2018 legislation sessions entirely guided by a...
A guest op-ed from Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Over Labor Day, I heard from Iowans in Cedar Rapids who’d been impacted by devastating floods, and connected the dots to our bigger climate crisis. As State Senator Rob Hogg put it: “Could we have had a flood like this...
As the old Iowa Caucus saying goes, once the Pumpkin Spice Lattes go on sale, it's decision time for Iowans. Or, wait, is the traditional dividing line Labor Day? Well, anyway, the point is that we've clearly moved into a new, more serious phase of the presidential...
As the Democratic primary shifts into high gear for the final months before the early states start voting, we can expect candidates to draw sharper contrasts with one another and some attack ads to start airing. Just don't be surprised if you don't see much of that...
The health care discussion in the Democratic presidential primary has been dominated by Medicare for All. Candidates are asked to pick a side, tell voters how they would pay for it and how universal coverage would affect the country's private health insurance...
A union family helped propel Minnesota senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar from the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth, Minnesota, to Yale University and Chicago Law School. Union members helped make her the Hennepin County Attorney and a...
Dave Stephen, a carpenter from Cedar Rapids, enjoyed his day off on Monday by attending the Hawkeye Area Labor Council’s Labor Day Picnic at Hawkeye Downs, where five presidential candidates mingled with the crowd. His wife, Margie Stephen, has already retired....
