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The events leading up to a Des Moines coffee shop's firing of employees who hung up a Black Lives Matter sign was contentious, said the shop's general manager—one of many let go after the incident. Eric Posthuma, the shop's general manager for about a year, detailed a...
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,...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst declined to give a direct answer Thursday night when asked whether she supports President Donald Trump's threat to withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall. "Do you agree with President Trump that the...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst declined to give a direct answer Thursday night when asked whether she supports President Donald Trump's threat to withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall. "Do you agree with President Trump that the...
The Iowa Department of Public Health cracked down on the circulation of zip-code specific COVID-19 positive case numbers after an Allamakee County local official began publishing biweekly reports online. That data pointed to the rural county's coronavirus outbreak...
Brownells, the Grinnell-based international gun manufacturer and firearm supplier, was one of Iowa’s leading recipients of the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program. Data released Monday by the federal agency shows that Brownells was one of 50...
Sofia wakes up early to take her son to daycare before going to work. She is back in her office at an insurance company after more than three months of working from home due to the Covid-19. As a single mom, it was a challenge trying to work while caring for and home...
Sofia wakes up early to take her son to daycare before going to work. She is back in her office at an insurance company after more than three months of working from home due to the Covid-19. As a single mom, it was a challenge trying to work while caring for and home...
On her last day of classes at Boise State University in 1998, Iowa House District 37 Democratic candidate Andrea Phillips rode her bike all the way up to campus before realizing she forgot her bike lock. “I just turned to the person next to me in front of the business...
On her last day of classes at Boise State University in 1998, Iowa House District 37 Democratic candidate Andrea Phillips rode her bike all the way up to campus before realizing she forgot her bike lock. “I just turned to the person next to me in front of the business...
Inside Pleasant Hill’s Berean Assembly of God, a nondenominational church next to a McDonald’s twenty minutes east of Des Moines, retired Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman asked a packed amphitheater in March 2018 if they were prepared to protect their neighbors from "the...
David Young's reputation in Congress was that of a moderate Republican (even when his voting record didn't match it) willing to out-work the competition by visiting all 16 counties in Iowa's 3rd District every month. Then, in 2018, he was hit by the blue wave that...
Upon seeing record-shattering turnout in Iowa's June primary thanks largely to widespread absentee voting, Iowa Republicans returned to the Statehouse intent on making sure that wouldn't happen again. After a record 531,131 Iowans cast a primary ballot, Republican...
Iowa State Senator Julian Garrett wrote in a recent opinion piece that the Black Lives Matter movement doesn't care about black lives because they don't focus on "black-on-black" crime, and offered up his suggestion of which "blacks" in society should be held up as...
Our children stopped attending school since the lockdown this past spring due to the pandemic. Parents, grandparents and guardians wondered how kids would return to school safely and what the state of Iowa would do to protect them. COVID-19 is relentless. It is now...
Our children stopped attending school since the lockdown this past spring due to the pandemic. Parents, grandparents and guardians wondered how kids would return to school safely and what the state of Iowa would do to protect them. COVID-19 is relentless. It is now...
The American Postal Workers Union has rallied for support before, but never inside their vehicles due to a pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic, however, is what prompted workers to sound the alarm in Des Moines as the United States Postal Service faces a dire financial...
The American Postal Workers Union has rallied for support before, but never inside their vehicles due to a pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic, however, is what prompted workers to sound the alarm in Des Moines as the United States Postal Service faces a dire financial...
Six hundred state employees working Iowa’s COVID-19 response were cut and two Test Iowa Sites closed this week while the state reported escalated coronavirus cases and COVID-related deaths. The Iowa National Guard on Tuesday merged three separate task forces staffed...
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...
In a Fox News interview yesterday and a speech on the Senate floor today, Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to lack basic knowledge of the Black Lives Matter movement in her home state and framed the recent progress at the Iowa Statehouse in a way that excluded them. Appearing...
In a Fox News interview yesterday and a speech on the Senate floor today, Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to lack basic knowledge of the Black Lives Matter movement in her home state and framed the recent progress at the Iowa Statehouse in a way that excluded them. Appearing...
Des Moines residents woke up to a new ordinance this past Tuesday. The City Council passed a racial profiling ordinance that prohibits biased policing and requires city employees to report violations by officers. After years of talks and negotiations from local...
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...
As polls show the presidential race in Iowa looking much closer than the 2016 election, the Iowa Democratic Party is announcing that their party's presumptive nominee will headline their major summer fundraiser. Former Vice President Joe Biden will address Iowa...
As polls show the presidential race in Iowa looking much closer than the 2016 election, the Iowa Democratic Party is announcing that their party's presumptive nominee will headline their major summer fundraiser. Former Vice President Joe Biden will address Iowa...
As polls show the presidential race in Iowa looking much closer than the 2016 election, the Iowa Democratic Party is announcing that their party's presumptive nominee will headline their major summer fundraiser. Former Vice President Joe Biden will address Iowa...
During a year full of unexpected and dreadful events, hope emerges through the rubble. Young people are showing up in powerful ways and are becoming the catalyst for some of the most clear and difficult conversations we have had on racism, inequality and injustice in...
