Kimberly Sheets was all smiles as she was sworn in Tuesday to take what she and others felt was her rightful place as interim Warren County auditor. There were murmurs in the community that the Warren County Board of Supervisors would not certify the results of the...
Representatives of two Iowa LGBTQ advocacy organizations said the start of the school year is going exactly as expected—and many predicted—after Republican lawmakers passed a slew of anti-LGBTQ legislation targeted at public schools and queer kids. Schools are...
Iowa's new rollbacks on protection for children in dangerous occupations fly in the face of federal labor law in two specific ways, according to a new letter this week from the US Department of Labor (DOL).
On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan cancellation plan, a major blow to tens of millions of working- and middle-class Americans who stood to benefit from the program. Under Biden’s plan, an estimated 20 million people were...
Presidential hopeful Tim Scott told an Iowa audience he would support a nationwide 15-week abortion ban if elected, despite the fact that abortion bans have been a losing policy for Republicans across the country in a series of post-Roe voter referendums. The...
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed a new rule that would make 3.6 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay. The new proposal from the US Department of Labor would require employers to pay overtime to their salaried workers who are in...
New laws passed by Republicans in the Iowa Legislature this year restrict bathroom access for transgender students, forcibly out students to their parents if they express a different gender identity or ask to go by a different name from the one on their birth...
Voters in Iowa's Warren County voted Tuesday to remove their recently-appointed county auditor who had shared false conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, QAnon, and the 2020 presidential election, replacing him with the deputy auditor he had placed...
The Urbandale School District provided no further clarity on how it will enforce the new state-mandated teaching restrictions for LGBTQ topics at Monday's school board meeting. Superintendent Dr. Rosalie Daca said, “If your major concern is the gender identity book...
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced the first 10 prescription drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations, a major milestone in Democrats’ push to lower drug prices by taking advantage of the federal government’s purchasing power. The drugs include the...
