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Former Vice President Joe Biden responded in Iowa today to the reports that President Donald Trump had pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden and his family. "It’s concerning to me that a president would do something like that," Biden told Iowa...
With the newly announced support of six former state legislators, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar brings her Iowa endorsement list total to 24 ahead of this weekend's Steak Fry. It follows one of her best polling showings in Iowa from this morning, where she was at fifth...
Democratic presidential candidates are standing behind nearly 50,000 General Motors United Auto Workers who are on strike. The workers are on the picket line demanding fair wages, better benefits, and are hoping to reopen a closed factory in Lordstown, Ohio. Ohio...
It was 80 degrees outside, and yet Dean Lyons of Grand Junction was clinging to a warm quilt one late August afternoon in Iowa. The quilt's giant squares cut out of old t-shirts were stitched together using an American flag fabric print. It features squares that say...
As Cedar Rapids city councilman Dale Todd took a lap around his bustling district on a recent Friday afternoon, he paused before reaching a neighborhood tavern, Parlor City, which stands adjacent to the sprawling NewBo City Market. “This was where community members...
Elizabeth Warren's campaign is rolling out their first big batch of endorsers following last night's Democratic debate. Fifteen well-known Iowa activists are publicly throwing their support behind Warren for the Iowa Caucus, hailing from cities and small towns alike....
Shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2017, the Iowa Capitol grounds filled with a sea of women newly engaged in politics, ready to take action at the state's first Women's March. But could they keep that enthusiasm up all the way through the election,...
Pete Buttigieg has his first notable public endorsement for the Iowa Caucus: Jean Lloyd-Jones of Iowa City, a former legislator and the first woman who was nominated by a major Iowa party for a U.S. Senate race. "I support Mayor Pete because he has the brains, the...
Photo: Julian Castro touring a trailer park in Waukee where rents spiked with local activists in June. Affordable housing as a political issue is taking the stage nationally during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in a way it never has before. Experts say this...
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 without...
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. She’s...
Julian Castro, the former Secretary of Housing Urban Development under President Barack Obama, announced a new list of Iowa endorsements on Thursday. Four of the eight individuals have a connection to organizations advocating for Latinx Americans, particularly the...
"Health care is personal to me," Biden says in his new ad. "Obamacare is personal to me." The ad addresses Biden's personal experiences, drawing on a car accident that took his wife and daughter's lives, as well as his son Beau's struggle with brain cancer. The...
More than a million dollars worth of advertising spots were purchased in August in Iowa by three dark-money groups trying to impact the health care conversation in the state as voters vet presidential candidates. One Nation, Partnership for America's Health Care...
As Democratic candidates campaign across Iowa, make sure to ask them about their plans to win the judiciary back from conservative court-packing, one national advocacy group is urging Iowa caucus-goers. Demand Justice, a progressive advocacy organization seeking to...
While Democratic candidates pitch their plans on improving America's health care system to Iowans, three dark-money groups are blanketing the Iowa airwaves with attacks ads on those reforms and similar issues. Aligned with the health care industry, they are airing ads...
The people of Iowa have gotten a look at the University of Iowa’s priorities in recent weeks. I doubt this was the message administrators in Iowa City intended to send, but I don’t know how else to interpret the juxtaposition two recent news stories created. The first...
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand rolled out a new plan today to create School-Based Health Centers that will provide children in rural Iowa and across the nation with mental health care services that are currently lacking. A few Iowa schools have already tried to launch...
This weekend, most of the field of Democratic candidates returned to Iowa to connect with voters in the first caucus state. The last time so many were in the state at one time was in early June, at the Hall of Fame Dinner in Cedar Rapids. Candidates went to the Iowa...
"About two years ago, I walked into a doctor's office with a nagging cough and walked out with a stage-four cancer diagnosis," said Laura Packard, a cancer survivor and health care activist. "But I'm still here today because the Affordable Care Act saved my life."...
By now, Iowa acivists have seen in-person or heard on TV more than two dozen Democrats running for president. Whether they attended the Hall of Fame dinner in Cedar Rapids, the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding Friday night in Clear Lake or an intimate gathering at a coffee...
Enough already. In yet another weekend where it seems like the country is coming apart, terrorist gunmen in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio massacred innocent people. Details are just starting to emerge about the Dayton murderer, but we already have a disturbing --...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst told reporters today she will not endorse a candidate in the Republican primary for Rep. Steve King's congressional seat. Ernst, in response to a question from the Cedar Rapids Gazette, said Thursday afternoon on a conference call with reporters,...
A Cedar Rapids man has been arrested after he allegedly made threats over the phone and in emails to a Jewish organization in New York City. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force investigated the matter. Garrett Kelsey, who referred to himself as "Garrett Odinschild,"...
To run a successful statewide campaign, candidates need time, a deep network of contacts, and these days, a lot of money. Incumbents often are at a financial advantage when running for re-election — Republican Joni Ernst raised more than $1.1 million in the second...
While most politically-engaged Iowans are well-aware of the ideological leanings of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Iowa Supreme Court, they may not realize how skewed to the right the federal appeals court that covers the state has become. The Eight Circuit Court of...
While the non-stop parade of presidential candidates through Iowa dominates state and national news, a group of prominent Iowa Democrats have launched a PAC to refocus attention on a more local matter: retaking the Iowa House. The Better Democracy PAC, formed by Fred...
This is a good week for Iowans to put away forever what a friend once called our “mental overalls.” The label was his way of describing the tendency of Iowans to downplay the state’s importance in anything other than dirt-under-your-fingernails agriculture. Being a...
Democrats are doing more on the campaign trail than just bashing President Donald Trump. While national pundits fret over how engaging Trump on racism could mean the party doesn't talk enough about bread-and-butter issues with voters, Democratic presidential...
When Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tried to win over a Republican held congressional district in Upstate New York her opponent repeatedly ran a commercial that showed a picture of her face covered in flames. In the background, a deep voice would say “she’s not who you...
