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One Iowa Union’s Plans To Give Back This Holiday Season

One Iowa Union’s Plans To Give Back This Holiday Season

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 55 has made Christmas wishes come true for dozens of Iowa families throughout the last five years. Ever since union membership voted to create the Helpful Elves program, Local 55, partnering with the Local 145,...

One Iowa City Where Redlining’s Legacy Still Haunts

One Iowa City Where Redlining’s Legacy Still Haunts

After Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Rosetta Robinson’s daughter had a baby, the two moved out of the small apartment they shared together, expecting to get a more spacious home within a few months. That was last year, and the women are still living in temporary living...

Evans: It’s A Shame So Many See Compromise As Bad

Evans: It’s A Shame So Many See Compromise As Bad

Down through the ages, a pretty comprehensive list of sins has been compiled to guide our daily lives. Some have been added over time as society’s norms have changed, and others have been stricken from the list. I’m not here to preach to you about envy, gluttony or...

IA-Sen: Greenfield Picks Up New Legislative Endorsements

IA-Sen: Greenfield Picks Up New Legislative Endorsements

U.S. Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield has collected more endorsements from current Iowa legislators than her three primary opponents, bringing her total this year to 23. Greenfield leads the field in fundraising and endorsements, earning the support of groups like...

Contentious DSM Mayor Race Heads Toward Unpredictable Finish

Contentious DSM Mayor Race Heads Toward Unpredictable Finish

An expensive, surprisingly close run-off election for the Des Moines mayoral seat comes to a close tomorrow. The final weeks have featured attacks and counter-attacks as both candidates have criticized each others' records and backgrounds. Voters have been inundated...

How Cory Booker’s Message Of Love Can Still Win In Iowa

How Cory Booker’s Message Of Love Can Still Win In Iowa

In Iowa, the voters are angry. Even the really old ones, like 95-year-old Bud Guthrie, a World War II veteran who lives in rural Story County. He’s so upset by Donald Trump, that Guthrie, a lifelong Republican, has now switched to being a lifelong Democrat, as he told...

As 2020 Dems Talk Housing Plans, Iowans Take Notice

As 2020 Dems Talk Housing Plans, Iowans Take Notice

During a significant few weeks for the nation’s widening affordable housing needs, several federal bill proposals and candidate plans were rolled out to address the crisis. In her role as a California senator, 2020 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris introduced last...

Bernie Tries To Save The Bees

Bernie Tries To Save The Bees

Bernie Sanders, a die-hard baseball fan, took a swing this week at Major League Baseball and its proposal to shutter 42 Minor League Baseball teams, three of which are in Iowa. The proposal is far from finalized — the current Professional Baseball Agreement expires at...

“Professor” Cady Gave Us A Remarkable Lesson

“Professor” Cady Gave Us A Remarkable Lesson

Mark Cady was right at home at the piano and was an occasional singer, too, maybe best known among family and friends for his rendition of “Easter Parade” each New Year’s Eve — a whimsical tidbit that widened the eyes of some people at his funeral last week. But it...

New IBEW Group Looks To Empower Women In Labor

New IBEW Group Looks To Empower Women In Labor

Female electricians in the Midwest are ready to fight for equality. Women within the 11th District of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are waiting on a charter to be finalized, which will establish the first Women's Committee within the district...

With Vilsacks’ Help, Biden Makes Very Explicit Electability Push

With Vilsacks’ Help, Biden Makes Very Explicit Electability Push

It was an hour and a half into Joe Biden’s event in Knoxville, Iowa, and the former vice president wasn’t ready to leave. Taking his third question after his staff called for a “last question,” Biden walked into the crowd to an older gentleman emphatically raising his...

Elizabeth Warren Lands New Iowa Endorsements After Debate

Elizabeth Warren Lands New Iowa Endorsements After Debate

Elizabeth Warren brought her number of Iowa state legislator endorsements to ten today following last night's Democratic debate. Cedar Rapids State Representative Art Staed announced he'd be in Warren's corner on caucus night, along with 24 other notable Iowa...

Ep131: New DMR Poll, Deval Patrick Interview

Ep131: New DMR Poll, Deval Patrick Interview

Pat Rynard and Patty Judge discuss the Des Moines Register's new Iowa poll, candidate travel and more. Later in the episode, new Democratic candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick sits down with Pat to talk about jumping into the race, his...

Warren Stumps In Iowa As New Caucus Leaderboard Emerges

Warren Stumps In Iowa As New Caucus Leaderboard Emerges

Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South Bend...

Advocates Plan Another Push For Voting Rights Restoration

Advocates Plan Another Push For Voting Rights Restoration

Of all the states in the country, only two permanently bar felons from voting and require them to petition the state to restore that right. One is Kentucky, the other is Iowa. Earlier in 2019, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds joined the effort to change Iowa law by...

When Everyone Thinks They Have A Chance, No One Does

When Everyone Thinks They Have A Chance, No One Does

It is past time for more candidates to drop out of the presidential primary. Seventy-nine days out from the Iowa Caucus, we still have 17 Democratic contenders in the race. The total number started going in the wrong direction this past week with Deval Patrick's...

Poll: Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer Picking Up Steam In Iowa

Poll: Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer Picking Up Steam In Iowa

A recently-released survey from PPP Polls has good news for Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer in the lead-off caucus state. Both are moving up in the still-crowded Democratic primary, with Klobuchar polling at 9% and Steyer at 6% in Iowa in this survey. Klobuchar's new...

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