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September 18 is National Black Voter Day. Started by a partnership between the National Urban League, BET, and 40+ other organizations, the Day has caught on. In Iowa, the Iowa Democratic Party, Biden for President Iowa, and the Iowa Democratic Black Caucus have...
Congresswoman Cindy Axne's campaign is pushing back on a new ad from her Republican challenger, David Young, accusing him of trying to "mislead Iowa voters" by misstating his voting record on health care and distorting the policies Axne supports. Young's new TV ad...
Congresswoman Cindy Axne's campaign is pushing back on a new ad from her Republican challenger, David Young, accusing him of trying to "mislead Iowa voters" by misstating his voting record on health care and distorting the policies Axne supports. Young's new TV ad...
Congresswoman Cindy Axne's campaign is pushing back on a new ad from her Republican challenger, David Young, accusing him of trying to "mislead Iowa voters" by misstating his voting record on health care and distorting the policies Axne supports. Young's new TV ad...
Ashley Biden, the daughter of Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, will rally Iowa activists virtually this Wednesday at Progress Iowa's annual Corn Feed event. She will add to a speaker lineup well-known to Democratic and progressive activists in...
Ashley Biden, the daughter of Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, will rally Iowa activists virtually this Wednesday at Progress Iowa's annual Corn Feed event. She will add to a speaker lineup well-known to Democratic and progressive activists in...
Ashley Biden, the daughter of Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, will rally Iowa activists virtually this Wednesday at Progress Iowa's annual Corn Feed event. She will add to a speaker lineup well-known to Democratic and progressive activists in...
Guest post by Jack Brandsgard, a freelance writer from West Des Moines A record-breaking derecho tore through Iowa on Aug. 10, destroying homes, decimating livelihoods and leaving Iowans desperate for help. But when Iowans need it most, government has failed them. In...
Guest post by Jack Brandsgard, a freelance writer from West Des Moines A record-breaking derecho tore through Iowa on Aug. 10, destroying homes, decimating livelihoods and leaving Iowans desperate for help. But when Iowans need it most, government has failed them. In...
Sen. Joni Ernst's undying loyalty to Pres. Donald Trump was rewarded tonight with a high-profile speech at the Republican National Convention. She repaid Trump for the political boost to her reelection campaign by betraying the Iowans she's serving, vouching for the...
Sen. Joni Ernst's undying loyalty to Pres. Donald Trump was rewarded tonight with a high-profile speech at the Republican National Convention. She repaid Trump for the political boost to her reelection campaign by betraying the Iowans she's serving, vouching for the...
Sen. Joni Ernst's undying loyalty to Pres. Donald Trump was rewarded tonight with a high-profile speech at the Republican National Convention. She repaid Trump for the political boost to her reelection campaign by betraying the Iowans she's serving, vouching for the...
Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson came under scrutiny this summer in light of reporting that showed she had plagiarized portions of op-eds and policy proposals from news outlets and Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer's campaign website. Rather than a one-off mistake, a review...
When news that a major storm was headed toward eastern Iowa last Monday, Palo farmer Gary Owens was tending to his calf-cow operation in a pasture. He received a call from his wife, Vicki, that 90-mile per hour winds were quickly approaching, so he got on his open...
Nduwimana Kanumba's entrance into the world was rough. At five days old, a derecho tore through his family's Cedar Rapids apartment, ripping off their roof and bringing debris crashing down onto his crib. His mother suffered a gash on her shoulder during the storm...
Most Iowa schools will require students and teachers to wear facial coverings at least partially as students head back to school this fall, finds a Des Moines-based education organizer who compiled a list of Iowa schools and districts and their face mask requirements....
State-reported COVID-19 positivity rates are routinely lower than media or individual data collector’s counts, leaving some confused by Iowa’s numbers—important benchmarks used to determine if a school district can switch to online learning during periods of the...
Iowa Reps. Cindy Axne and Abby Finkenauer today released the first television ads of their respective re-election campaigns with just under 100 days until Election Day. Axne's ad focuses on how she has helped Iowans in the 3rd District navigate the coronavirus...
Walmart’s newly-implemented mask requirement policy has stirred outrage, especially among rural Iowans, even as the state’s coronavirus cases creep back up to the peaks it hit in May. America’s largest retailer on Monday began enforcing a mandate which requires all...
Walmart’s newly-implemented mask requirement policy has stirred outrage, especially among rural Iowans, even as the state’s coronavirus cases creep back up to the peaks it hit in May. America’s largest retailer on Monday began enforcing a mandate which requires all...
With little guidance from national and state officials, many of Iowa’s school districts are themselves determining reopening plans before children enter classrooms this fall. President Donald Trump and Gov. Kim Reynolds have both said recently that they prioritize...
Give an extra tug on your seatbelt. The next couple of months will be rough ones. The new school year starts in a few weeks. Not surprisingly, with the coronavirus still sickening and killing people in Iowa, what normally is a time of much excitement has become a time...
Iowa became the first state in the nation to restart high school sports amid the pandemic, allowing baseball and softball high school teams to resume their summer seasons in early June. It was believed to be the first return of organized sports in the country,...
Guest op-ed from Erika Brighi of Marion, Iowa, a member of Advocates for Social Justice Black. Lives. Matter. We have heard these three words before — yet this time, the fight feels different. All lives matter, right? Yes. That’s the goal. But “all lives matter” can’t...
Guest op-ed from Erika Brighi of Marion, Iowa, a member of Advocates for Social Justice Black. Lives. Matter. We have heard these three words before — yet this time, the fight feels different. All lives matter, right? Yes. That’s the goal. But “all lives matter” can’t...
The 2020 resurrection of Eric Gjerde’s campaign for Iowa House seat 67 will pick up where it left off in 2018, the candidate said, but a win is in better reach. The Cedar Rapids special education teacher's bid comes as Rep. Ashley Hinson vacated the Linn County seat...
The 2020 resurrection of Eric Gjerde’s campaign for Iowa House seat 67 will pick up where it left off in 2018, the candidate said, but a win is in better reach. The Cedar Rapids special education teacher's bid comes as Rep. Ashley Hinson vacated the Linn County seat...
The 2020 resurrection of Eric Gjerde’s campaign for Iowa House seat 67 will pick up where it left off in 2018, the candidate said, but a win is in better reach. The Cedar Rapids special education teacher's bid comes as Rep. Ashley Hinson vacated the Linn County seat...
State and national Republicans have run with the claim in conservative media that Theresa Greenfield "evicted" tenants from an Iowa strip mall when she was president of a real estate firm, but the facts are less explosive than the GOP alleges. As the general election...
It took Mallory Gosch an hour and fifteen minutes to gather the courage to step up and take the microphone at the racial justice discussion in Cresco, Iowa. The 14-year-old sat in the crowd of well over 100 as her mother and others took turns in the park raising their...
