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Instead of fixing real issues, Iowa Republicans push 10 bills to discriminate against LGBTQ Iowans

January 29, 2024

We are less than a month into the 2024 Iowa Legislative Session and the Republicans in charge of Iowa’s state government have been busy— and by busy, we mean coming up with new ways to legally discriminate against LGBTQ Iowans. As Iowans struggle with stagnant wages, budget shortfalls in public schools, worsened water quality, higher…

Instead of fixing real issues, Iowa Republicans push 10 bills to discriminate against LGBTQ Iowans

Skyscrapers in Iowa: Here Are Our 10 Tallest Buildings

March 8, 2023

Iowa doesn’t have the tallest buildings in the world (or country, or region), but we do have a few skyscrapers. Most are in Des Moines, Iowa’s capital and largest city (but not all). One was even (for a time) the tallest building in the upper Midwest! Here are the top ten tallest buildings in Iowa…

Skyscrapers in Iowa: Here Are Our 10 Tallest Buildings

Here’s what else is on the ballot in Iowa in 2024, besides President

October 16, 2024

It’s 2024, which means we’re voting for President this year. But there are other elected officials on the ballot in Iowa this year, too. Here’s who they are. Everyone will see Presidential candidates on their ballot. That will include Democratic and Republican ones, as well as Libertarians, Greens, and a few others. After that, you’ll…

Here’s what else is on the ballot in Iowa in 2024, besides President

Advocates file suit to stop Iowa’s ‘unconstitutional’ immigration law

May 9, 2024

Immigration advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to stop Iowa’s new immigration law—SF 2340—from taking effect arguing that the legislation creates new crimes for anyone in Iowa who has been deported in the past even if they are here legally now. A hearing date has not been set yet. The lawsuit was filed in the…

Advocates file suit to stop Iowa’s ‘unconstitutional’ immigration law

Original, heels or boots: Pritzker says leading Republicans are all MAGA

January 15, 2024

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said all three leading candidates in the Iowa GOP caucus—Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis—represent the same extreme ideas and policy priorities but in different formats. “Tonight’s contest is simply a question of whether you like your MAGA Trump agenda wrapped in the original packaging, or with high heels or…

Original, heels or boots: Pritzker says leading Republicans are all MAGA

Iowa Pokémon Fans Can Meet The Voice of Ash Ketchum

June 2, 2023

Iowans will get a chance to meet one of the “very best like no one ever was” this weekend at Des Moines Comic Con as longtime Pokémon voice actor Sarah Natochenny will be there to meet and greet with fans of the series. Since 2006, Natochenny has been the English voice of Ash Ketchum, Pokémon’s…

🗣️ ‘Start Doing the Right Thing, Chuck’

April 11, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Friday, Apr. 11, 2025. 🗣️ It’s Friday: Time for the Reader Sound-Off, where our main export is tariff-free hot takes! But first, here’s the Pet Photo of the Week: These are Jet and Ruby, “new puppies added to the family” in February, says reader Bonnie A. Trying to disguise…

🥘 The best things to eat at the State Fair

August 8, 2025

Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader replies! My take: I see Northern Dewatering, the Minnesota company that illegally drilled around 40 wells on the site of an under-construction Cedar Rapids data center, is being fined $20,000 by Linn County. They’re a private company, so…

🥘 The best things to eat at the State Fair

5 amazing Iowa authors (+ which of their books we recommend)

August 3, 2025

Iowa’s rich literary culture has produced Pulitzer Prize winners and best-selling authors. Here are five Iowa authors and a book from each to read.

5 amazing Iowa authors (+ which of their books we recommend)

13 of Iowa’s Scariest Haunted Houses and Creepy Attractions of 2023

October 11, 2023

By Katie Mills Giorgio, Starting Line contributor Spooky season is officially here, and if you’re the type of Iowan who likes a good scare, we’ve got you covered. This list of 13 haunted houses around the state of Iowa is sure to freak you out. Located throughout the state, these awfully frightful attractions will leave…

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