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Affordable Housing: A Workshop For Municipal Leadership

Affordable Housing: A Workshop For Municipal Leadership

Affordable housing advocates are making a case for municipal support to generally receptive local officials as a projected workforce housing crisis approaches Polk County. A newly released workforce housing study found Polk County will need to add 57,170 new housing...

Gabbard Skips Iowa Forum, Appears On Fox News Instead

Gabbard Skips Iowa Forum, Appears On Fox News Instead

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's bizarre week in American politics continued Thursday night, when she skipped an appearance at LULAC's Latino town hall in Des Moines, appearing that evening instead on Sean Hannity's Fox News show. There, she criticized House Democrats'...

How Affordable Housing Plans Shape DSM Mayoral Race

How Affordable Housing Plans Shape DSM Mayoral Race

Several mayoral candidates with extensive, but different backgrounds dealing with Des Moines’ rising shortage of affordable housing have proposed varied approaches to solve the issue ahead of Nov. 5 elections. Incumbent Mayor Frank Cownie, who has led the city through...

How The Health Care Ad Wars In Iowa Are Playing Out

How The Health Care Ad Wars In Iowa Are Playing Out

While Democrats were debating health care plans all this year, a less-noticed storyline was playing out on Iowa TV screens. Conservative organizations were dumping millions on ads opposing Medicare for All or even a public option here. While those messages were aimed...

Diverse Progressives Vie For Local Elections Around Iowa

Diverse Progressives Vie For Local Elections Around Iowa

A diverse group of progressive candidates from across Iowa are seeking spots on city councils and school boards this year. At least one wants to make history. If 20-year-old Rachel Junck in Ames is elected, she will be the youngest woman elected to any office in Iowa....

Warren Confronts Medicare For All Criticism, Talks Climate

Warren Confronts Medicare For All Criticism, Talks Climate

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke about Washington corruption and fielded questions about topics like climate change during a Sunday campaign event in Indianola, Iowa today before finally addressing recent attacks on her plan to pay for ‘Medicare for All’...

Elizabeth Warren Lands 24 New Iowa Endorsements After Debate

Elizabeth Warren Lands 24 New Iowa Endorsements After Debate

Elizabeth Warren will return to Iowa later this weekend to a new raft of prominent endorsers, including former Lt. Governor Sally Pederson. Twenty-four leaders from across Iowa announced their support for Warren today, adding to her growing list of endorsements in the...

DSM City Council Looks To Tackle Next Big Housing Issue

DSM City Council Looks To Tackle Next Big Housing Issue

The third and final reading of the new, controversial Des Moines zoning code was approved Wednesday by the Des Moines City Council while a few focus surrounding a potential housing project surfaced Monday at a Council meeting. The code, which sparked debate over...

What Iowans Thought Of Tonight’s Crowded Debate

What Iowans Thought Of Tonight’s Crowded Debate

Team Starting Line fanned out to multiple debate watch parties tonight in Des Moines, tasked with gathering voters' reactions to the 12-candidate event. The three-hour debate featured the largest field of presidential candidates on one debate stage ever. Take a look...

Michael Bennet Keeps Focus On Iowa As Competitors Debate

Michael Bennet Keeps Focus On Iowa As Competitors Debate

In the middle of the night, at a gas station in rural Iowa, an employee recognized a little-known presidential candidate approaching the cash register. "You're Bennet," the woman said. The "Bennet" she recognized was Michael Bennet, a U.S. senator from Colorado and...

Eddie Mauro Drops $1 Million Into His Senate Campaign

Eddie Mauro Drops $1 Million Into His Senate Campaign

Des Moines businessman Eddie Mauro is certainly serious about defeating Sen. Joni Ernst. New FEC campaign finance reports out today show that Mauro has invested another $1 million of his own money into his Senate campaign during the 3rd quarter of the year. That's on...

Labor Issues Take Back Seat To Process Questions

Labor Issues Take Back Seat To Process Questions

Sunday’s United Food and Commercial Workers forum in Altoona was supposed to be focused on labor issues. In the hall, with several hundred labor union members seated in the audience, it was. Outside, not so much. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who’s had a tough time...

Iowa’s Newspapers Have Shined The Spotlight On Key Issues

Iowa’s Newspapers Have Shined The Spotlight On Key Issues

Fifty-three years ago, I was a high school kid in southern Iowa who knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life: I wanted to be a journalist. The first step on that journey occurred when I walked into the offices of the Bloomfield Democrat and introduced myself...

School Board Member: Why Sanders Is Best For Iowa Students

School Board Member: Why Sanders Is Best For Iowa Students

Guest piece from Des Moines School Board Member Dionna Langford. Students and families are under huge pressure today, in Des Moines and across the country. Wages are not keeping up with the costs of basic everyday needs — housing, childcare, health care,...

Griping Got Old: Chelsea Chism-Vargas Inspired Me To Action

Griping Got Old: Chelsea Chism-Vargas Inspired Me To Action

I'm supporting Chelsea Chism-Vargas for Des Moines City Council, and the reason why is a lot different than my usual line of thinking. In the past, I’ve been perfectly candid about my disappointment with several elected officials in the Des Moines area, including my...

Michael Bennet’s Housing Plan Focuses On Home Ownership

Michael Bennet’s Housing Plan Focuses On Home Ownership

Presidential candidate Michael Bennet today joined the slate of 2020 democratic hopefuls with detailed housing plans. The Colorado Senator’s plan looks to build more affordable housing near good jobs, help middle-class families rent or purchase a home and reform...

One Caucus-Goer At A Time, Harris Climbs Back In Iowa

One Caucus-Goer At A Time, Harris Climbs Back In Iowa

Kamala Harris returned to Iowa this week on a mission: rejuvenate a stalled campaign. The lead-off caucus state is a natural place to stage a comeback, though her new rally playlist specifically directs you to "don't call it a comeback" via a LL Cool J song. As Harris...

AFSCME Readies For Third Year Of Union Recertification Votes

AFSCME Readies For Third Year Of Union Recertification Votes

AFSCME’s public sector union workers will cast their votes for the third year in a row next week to recertify their unions. This year’s voting cycle runs from 8 a.m. Oct. 15 through 9 a.m. Oct. 29.  Iowa’s public sector union workers have been forced to recertify...

Pat Grassley Will Be The Next Speaker Of The Iowa House

Pat Grassley Will Be The Next Speaker Of The Iowa House

We have a new Speaker of the Iowa House for the 2020 legislative session: Pat Grassley. The grandson of Senator Chuck Grassley secured his party's support for the top job in the House this morning. House Republicans gathered at the Statehouse around 10:00 a.m. to vote...

Joni Ernst: “Yes, I Did Vote To Repeal The ACA”

Joni Ernst: “Yes, I Did Vote To Repeal The ACA”

Today in Templeton, Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst provided a moment that you'll likely see over and over again on television ads next fall. "Yes, I did vote to repeal the ACA," Ernst said, when asked by a constituent with a pre-existing condition, to explain her health...

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