The nation is coming to terms today with yet another horrific mass shooting at a school, this time in Parkland, Florida. Will anything substantive on gun laws change now that we've had our 18th mass shooting in just the first month and a half of 2018? As long as...
The six Democratic candidates in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District held a forum on Tuesday night this week. the Iowa Starting Line sat down with several of the students involved and who attended to get their reaction to the field. We also...
Governor Kim Reynolds released her wide-ranging tax cut plan earlier today, which included a total of $1.7 billion in tax reductions for Iowa businesses and taxpayers. In-depth details of the proposal have not yet been made public, and the initial plan put out...
Democratic 3rd District candidate Pete D'Alessandro has a big guest coming in to campaign for him later this month: Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a rally with D'Alessandro on February 23. It will be the biggest surrogate of the cycle to come in specifically for...
Senator Nate Boulton is returning to the early themes of his gubernatorial run in a new TV ad that starts running on Saturday. Back is the "stomp/clap" music that gave his campaign kick-off announcement video an energetic feel last year, as well as the senator's...
A guest post from Mark Masterson (pictured on the right) I would like to introduce myself. I'm Mark Masterson, and Monday was my first caucus experience as a Democrat. I work as a state employee (a correctional officer) at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility,...
It was, for the most part, the Cathy Glasson party last night at the Meredith Middle School caucus location in Des Moines. Although many caucus goers chose not to outwardly show support for a gubernatorial candidate, Glasson’s volunteers were well-organized, nor...
You might say that weather conditions for tonight's Iowa precinct caucuses were less than ideal, but precinct caucus rooms were still packed with enthusiastic Democrats across the state. As of 11:30 p.m., with 80% of their precincts reporting, the Iowa Democratic...
Later this evening, thousands of dedicated Iowa Democrats will trudge through the snow and the cold to attend their local precinct caucus. It’s expected to see the largest attendance ever for a non-presidential year caucus, but the stakes involved with the...
Federal candidates' campaign finance reports for 2017's 4th quarter were due this past week, and they once again give us a sense of where the money aspect of Iowa's congressional races stand. The dynamics of the 1st District primary largely stays the same, while...
