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Iowan Fired in DOGE Purge Breaks Silence

February 19, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. It turns out that DOGE is less of a waste-reduction project and more of a wrecking ball that is cutting vital services. Like USDA folks working on bird flu, whoops! And it’s also cutting workers, like Iowans, who will likely move out of our…

Iowan Fired in DOGE Purge Breaks Silence

Iowa House passes 2.25% increase for schools, less than Democrats’ 5%

February 13, 2025

The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday with a 2.25% per-pupil funding increase alongside other funding changes for Iowa’s public K-12 schools.

Iowa House passes 2.25% increase for schools, less than Democrats’ 5%

How to vote on Election Day in Iowa

August 14, 2024

It’s Election Day, and you have done literally nothing to prepare for this. Don’t worry: You can still vote! Here’s how. Iowa’s general election is Tuesday, November 5, 2024. If you’re reading this on Nov. 5, don’t freak out: You can still register AND vote today. REGISTER TO VOTE See if you’re already registered to vote: …

Kim Reynolds finally decides to help feed some kids, but there’s a big catch

April 10, 2024

Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Wednesday that Iowa will start a competitive $900,000 grant program to feed Iowa children over the summer—this comes months after she declined $29 million in federal funds to feed kids via a different summer program. The new Summer Meal Program Expansion Grant will be launched through two existing federal programs and…

Kim Reynolds finally decides to help feed some kids, but there’s a big catch

Kalbach: Keeping an eye on McKenzie Snow

April 9, 2024

Gov. Kim Reynolds continued her war on public schools earlier this month when she narrowly won Iowa Senate confirmation of McKenzie Snow to lead the Iowa Department of Education (DOE). Snow is the wrong choice for the 500,000+ kids who attend our public schools, and I fully expect her to carry out Reynolds’ plan for…

Kalbach: Keeping an eye on McKenzie Snow

Iowa Librarian Pens ‘Library’s Bill of Rights’ in 1938 (And It’s Relevant Again)

May 1, 2023

Did you know an Iowa librarian wrote the original “Library’s Bill of Rights” as a rebuke to book banning during the rise of fascism, and it became the basis of library policy across the country?

Iowa Librarian Pens ‘Library’s Bill of Rights’ in 1938 (And It’s Relevant Again)

Iowa’s statewide elected officials react to abortion ban

June 28, 2024

Iowa Republicans celebrated while Iowa Democrats lamented after the Iowa Supreme Court allowed the state’s six-week abortion ban to take effect on Friday.

Iowa’s statewide elected officials react to abortion ban

⚖️ Immigrant Groups Warned This Was Coming

May 15, 2024

News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 15, 2024. After immigrants and their allies held marches and vigils in four Iowa cities to protest SF 2340, a few promised lawsuits were coming. Now, they’re here. The first lawsuit was filed May 9…

⚖️ Immigrant Groups Warned This Was Coming

LGBTQ Iowans are fleeing the state: ‘It progressively got worse’

July 24, 2025

As lawmakers restrict the rights of LGBTQ Iowans, more and more are leaving in favor of states with friendlier laws, with over half saying they’ve at least considered it.

LGBTQ Iowans are fleeing the state: ‘It progressively got worse’

Investigating Iowa’s growing cancer rate

July 22, 2025

First edition of our new series, The Hot Spot Share with a friend It’s Tuesday, June 22, 2025. Amie here. You’re reading the first edition of The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa, Iowa Starting Line’s new weekly newsletter tackling the cancer crisis in Iowa. Why is our cancer rate so high, and growing? Who’s…

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