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Iowans contributed $19,037 to the Canadian trucker COVID-19 protests through a Christian fundraising website GiveSendGo, according to Starting Line analysis of the leaked data from the site. Earlier this week, data from a reported hack of the donation site was leaked...
The Dr. Walter Cunningham School for Excellence is one of 11 public elementary schools in the Waterloo School District and it is named after a barrier-breaking educator. Cunningham was the first Black person to become a high school principal in Iowa when he was named...
Passages from a number of books that could be considered “obscene” under an enhanced legal definition of the word were read during a Thursday Iowa Senate subcommittee hearing, including an excerpt from the Bible. Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy for One...
Once again, Iowa Republicans are challenging federal laws in an attempt to discriminate against a population of Iowans and deny their identities if they want to play sports. This time, Reps. Skyler Wheeler (Orange City) and Henry Stone (Forest City) are championing...
A decision on whether or not to move forward a bill that would mandate cameras in almost every Iowa public school classroom happened off-camera. A Wednesday Iowa House subcommittee hearing on HF 2177—the aforementioned classroom camera bill—that was set to be...
Union workers continued to rally against a bill that would overhaul Iowa's unemployment system during a Tuesday Iowa Senate subcommittee hearing over the issue. The bill in question, Senate Study Bill 3093, would decrease the duration of unemployment benefits to 16...
Iowa Republicans are once again setting their sights on abortion access, introducing a new bill on Tuesday that would automatically ban abortion in the state should the US Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. House Rep. Skyler Wheeler’s proposed “trigger law” would...
Four Iowa Democrats introduced a bill to phase out Native American mascots in Iowa public and private schools by 2024, which one Indigenous organization said is long overdue. HF 2224 was introduced by Molly Donahue (D-Cedar Rapids), Brian Meyer (D-Des Moines), Art...
Iowa Senate President Jake Chapman's extreme anti-teacher rhetoric may be damaging his party's goals for education policy this legislative session. When talking about education, it's been clear other leading Iowa Republicans would prefer to speak in terms of "parental...
Sarah Trone Garriott didn’t mince words when talking about Jake Chapman, her Iowa Senate colleague and upcoming opponent—thanks to redistricting—and his continued assault on teachers, including a new bill he introduced to prosecute educators over books he feels are...
Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson praised yesterday a new, $11 million project that will bring drinking water and sewage services to the Field of Dreams site at Dyersville. She just forgot to mention one important thing about the project: Hinson voted against the funding. The...
Iowa child care providers are speaking out against a new proposal that they say could decrease the quality of care, cause more teachers to quit, and possibly even harm children. House Study Bill 511 would increase the number of children each child care worker could be...
Federal dollars continue to flow into Iowa as Gov. Kim Reynolds announced $38 million in funding for three water infrastructure projects Friday morning, including up to $15 million toward the Iowa Confluence (ICON) Water Trails Project in Des Moines. The money comes...
A bill moving through the Iowa House would double-down on constitutionally protected religious rights. In a Thursday subcommittee meeting, Reps. Skyler Wheeler (R-Orange City), Sandy Salmon (R-Janesville), and Brian Meyer (D-Des Moines) discussed House File 593, a...
A group of Iowa House members want to brighten up people’s day by making daylight saving time permanent in the Hawkeye State. HF 2015 would end the practice of forwarding clocks an hour starting at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March before rolling the hour back at 2...
Rep. Bobby Kaufmann let his fingers do the talking Tuesday. The 36-year-old Republican from Wilton flipped off those who dare to have different beliefs than him while attending a rally held by the Convention of States in the rotunda of the Iowa Capitol Building in Des...
A seventh Iowan was charged for taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. According to the Sioux City Journal, Kenneth Rader, 53, of Sioux City was arrested Thursday and was charged in the US District Court for the District of...
Republicans in the Iowa Senate are working on a bill that would subvert any federal laws aimed at preventing gun violence, even as the number of shootings and gun deaths in the state are on the rise. The effort, which is being led by Sen. Zach Nunn (R-Bondurant),...
Last fall, people in the Des Moines suburbs started showing up at school board meetings to read, without any context, sexually-explicit passages from books they thought should be banned from school libraries. Not coincidentally, this was happening all across America,...
Iowa’s proposed flat tax rate will have a major winner: The Rich. Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to create a 4% flat tax rate over four years would benefit higher earners, according to longtime Iowa State University economist Dave Swenson. “You're going to get a shifting...
Senate President Jake Chapman kicked off the new 2022 legislative session with a series of attacks and accusations against teachers and the media, accusing them of a "sinister agenda" that they're pushing upon Iowa school children. "The time has come to take a stand,"...
Wednesday morning, Rep. Cindy Axne met with mayors in and around the Des Moines metro to discuss how to get more bang for their buck out of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. For the most part, every mayor and city manager mentioned how projects they want to...
This year was unique because I spent half of it working outside of journalism. I got back in the game full time in July and was able to write some pretty good stuff ranging from ridiculous—honestly, some of my favorite kind of stories—to serious deep dives on...
Support for legalized marijuana is only getting higher in Iowa as Democratic legislators want to give voters the chance to make it happen. Iowa Senate Democrats announced Tuesday they will move to pass an amendment to the Iowa Constitution to regulate marijuana sales...
Miranda Bratland is blunt about why Iowa is experiencing a teacher shortage: “It’s a sinking ship.” “I love teaching,” said Bratland, a third-grade teacher in Newton. “I love working with kids. I’m sick of the red tape. We’ve been asked to do the impossible during...
Nicole Hasso, a Republican candidate for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, said she thinks the pandemic was a good thing for the United States because of the increased political activism it caused. “When COVID hit, I think that was the best thing that ever happened...
In many ways, Iowa is a pioneer in renewables with wind turbines generating 60% of the state's electricity last year and the state leading the nation in biofuel production. Electric vehicles could be another step Iowa could take in the renewables sector and leaders at...
Amid a growing teacher shortage in Iowa, attacks on teachers’ abilities to teach are driving more away from Iowa schools. Neal Patel, a science teacher in the Johnston Community School District, announced at a committee meeting last Thursday that he plans to resign at...
Maybe you've heard about the recent push to investigate and remove books from school libraries in Iowa. If you don't have much time to dig into the details, here's a quick guide to the big points of focus, what's happening, and why. Click the links for more from the...
Roads, bridges, broadband, and sidewalks: That’s just a taste of what Iowa mayors are excited to see come to their cities with the passage of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill. Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act last Monday after it passed...
