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Weiner: A Special Session To Ban Abortion Helps No One

June 30, 2023

With the ink barely dry on the Iowa Supreme Court’s split decision on the six-week abortion ban, the Iowa legislature already seems headed for a special session. For perspective, the ban that has been permanently enjoined passed in 2018, in a very different legal environment. All Republicans who voted for it knew it was unconstitutional…

Iowa Voters Oust Conspiracy Theorist From County Elections Post

August 29, 2023

Voters in Iowa’s Warren County voted Tuesday to remove their recently-appointed county auditor who had shared false conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, QAnon, and the 2020 presidential election, replacing him with the deputy auditor he had placed on leave after she declared her candidacy against him. Iowa’s county auditors oversee elections. Republican David…

Immigrant Iowans, major ag workforce, wonder if they should stay here

July 23, 2024

by Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest/Report for America Leer en español Having spent more than half her life in Waterloo, Iowa, she has built a life here. It’s where she met her husband and where her only daughter, who wants to become a sonographer, was born. That’s why, after a day’s work at an area meatpacking plant,…

Eleven Iowa State Fair Scenes That Define The GOP Primary

August 15, 2023

There’s nothing quite like the Iowa State Fair during caucus campaign season. And this year’s circus was particularly intense, due largely to the Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis showdown on Saturday. Throughout the hot, sun-filled days, several key scenes revealed where the presidential field stands five months out from the GOP Iowa Caucus (spoiler: it’s still Trump’s…

Warren County Has A New Auditor. It’s Not The Conspiracy Theorist

September 5, 2023

Kimberly Sheets was all smiles as she was sworn in Tuesday to take what she and others felt was her rightful place as interim Warren County auditor. There were murmurs in the community that the Warren County Board of Supervisors would not certify the results of the Aug. 29 special election that led to the…

Conspiratorial Warren County Auditor Suspends Potential Opponent

June 21, 2023

Interim Warren County Auditor and 2020 election denier David Whipple placed deputy auditor and potential challenger Kim Sheets on administrative leave for 60 days, according to KNIA News. Whipple has come under intense scrutiny for sharing conspiracy theories that assert the 9/11 attacks were fake, the 2020 election was fraudulent, and QAnon material. County auditors…

7 Iowa families file federal lawsuit to stop anti-LGBTQ+ law

November 28, 2023

Someone threatened to kill Percy Batista-Pedro when he was a freshman performing in the school play. Now a junior in high school in the Waterloo Community School District, Percy—a transgender student—said he feels like he has a target on his back because of an anti-LGBTQ+ law passed by Iowa Republicans this year and signed into…

New Legislators: Dr. Megan Srinivas Wants To Make Things Better For Her Patients

January 28, 2023

Dr. Megan Srinivas, an infectious disease expert who made a mark nationally in 2020, was a busy woman even before she became the representative for Iowa House District 30, which covers southwest Des Moines. She contracts with various medical facilities and medical research organizations including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health…

Guest Post: Despite New Iowa Laws, We Support LGBTQ Students In Sioux City

June 1, 2023

An Open Letter to Governor Kim Reynolds: You recently signed legislation SF 496, which bans books from schools, limits education on gender identity and sexual orientation, and wants staff to “out” students whose preferred pronoun is different than their biological sex. You proudly signed this bill—privately. This had never been an Iowa concern, but a…

Rep. Zach Nunn Introduces Bill To Combat Youth Suicide

September 12, 2023

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) introduced what he hopes will become a bipartisan piece of legislation to combat youth suicide on Tuesday. Nunn, who represents Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, announced the “Prevent Youth Suicide Act” during a press conference at YSS’s youth opportunity center in downtown Des Moines after a…