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Iowa’s New Normal: Constant, Worsening Floods

Iowa’s New Normal: Constant, Worsening Floods

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...

Caucus Activists, Local Leaders Endorse Elizabeth Warren

Caucus Activists, Local Leaders Endorse Elizabeth Warren

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....

Trailblazer Iowa Democrat Endorses Pete Buttigieg

Trailblazer Iowa Democrat Endorses Pete Buttigieg

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...

Housing Issues Rise In Importance, Urgency For Iowa Caucus

Housing Issues Rise In Importance, Urgency For Iowa Caucus

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...

By Enlisting Every American, Iowa Can Lead The Way On Climate

By Enlisting Every American, Iowa Can Lead The Way On Climate

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...

Iowa Labor Union Workers Weigh In On 2020 Primary

Iowa Labor Union Workers Weigh In On 2020 Primary

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...

New Castro Endorsers Emphasize Pledge To Fight For Everyone

New Castro Endorsers Emphasize Pledge To Fight For Everyone

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...

Joe Biden Defends Obamacare In New Personal TV Ad In Iowa

Joe Biden Defends Obamacare In New Personal TV Ad In Iowa

"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...

How Dark Money Groups Are Attacking Dems’ Health Care Plans

How Dark Money Groups Are Attacking Dems’ Health Care Plans

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...

Ask Candidates About Courts, Harkin And Advocacy Group Urges

Ask Candidates About Courts, Harkin And Advocacy Group Urges

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...

University Of Iowa Has Made Its Misguided Policies Clear

University Of Iowa Has Made Its Misguided Policies Clear

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...

Parade Of Candidates Try To Stand Out At Wing Ding

Parade Of Candidates Try To Stand Out At Wing Ding

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...

Iowa Republicans Need To Stop Immigrant Fear-Mongering

Iowa Republicans Need To Stop Immigrant Fear-Mongering

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 --...

Joni Ernst Won’t Endorse Steve King In IA-04 Primary

Joni Ernst Won’t Endorse Steve King In IA-04 Primary

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,...

Inside The New Effort To Flip The Iowa House

Inside The New Effort To Flip The Iowa House

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...

How Iowa Helped With The Moon Landing

How Iowa Helped With The Moon Landing

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...

In Iowa, Democrats Pitch Plans To Get People Working Again

In Iowa, Democrats Pitch Plans To Get People Working Again

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...

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