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Iowa remains one of six U.S. states without any facial covering requirements as COVID-19 daily cases return to their previous peak in the state. Some local county and municipal leadership is left skeptical of CDC mask-wearing suggestions and others are fearful of...
Iowa remains one of six U.S. states without any facial covering requirements as COVID-19 daily cases return to their previous peak in the state. Some local county and municipal leadership is left skeptical of CDC mask-wearing suggestions and others are fearful of...
Iowa remains one of six U.S. states without any facial covering requirements as COVID-19 daily cases return to their previous peak in the state. Some local county and municipal leadership is left skeptical of CDC mask-wearing suggestions and others are fearful of...
Guest op-ed from Jeremy Dumkreiger, an educator in Sioux City. A colleague and I started Iowa Educators for a Safe Return to School to allow educators in Iowa to discuss the lack of guidance from Gov. Kim Reynolds and her administration. That group quickly grew to...
With little guidance from national and state officials, many of Iowa’s school districts are themselves determining reopening plans before children enter classrooms this fall. President Donald Trump and Gov. Kim Reynolds have both said recently that they prioritize...
Inside Pleasant Hill’s Berean Assembly of God, a nondenominational church next to a McDonald’s twenty minutes east of Des Moines, retired Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman asked a packed amphitheater in March 2018 if they were prepared to protect their neighbors from "the...
Iowa's three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. The Washington, D.C. Admission Act passed the Democrat-controlled House along party lines, 232-180. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota was the only...
Six hundred state employees working Iowa’s COVID-19 response were cut and two Test Iowa Sites closed this week while the state reported escalated coronavirus cases and COVID-related deaths. The Iowa National Guard on Tuesday merged three separate task forces staffed...
In a Fox News interview yesterday and a speech on the Senate floor today, Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to lack basic knowledge of the Black Lives Matter movement in her home state and framed the recent progress at the Iowa Statehouse in a way that excluded them. Appearing...
In a Fox News interview yesterday and a speech on the Senate floor today, Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to lack basic knowledge of the Black Lives Matter movement in her home state and framed the recent progress at the Iowa Statehouse in a way that excluded them. Appearing...
In the wake of the Iowa Legislature's abbreviated 2020 session, a nationwide gun safety advocacy organization launched a digital ad aimed at lawmakers who voted to restrict local governments from enacting gun control measures in their own communities. House File 2502,...
In the wake of the Iowa Legislature's abbreviated 2020 session, a nationwide gun safety advocacy organization launched a digital ad aimed at lawmakers who voted to restrict local governments from enacting gun control measures in their own communities. House File 2502,...
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 688 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,350 have been infected. Unemployment in Iowa is in the double digits. We have already begun hearing of business...
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 688 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,350 have been infected. Unemployment in Iowa is in the double digits. We have already begun hearing of business...
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 688 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,350 have been infected. Unemployment in Iowa is in the double digits. We have already begun hearing of business...
Never over-promise and under-deliver. That's an old lesson that Brad Parscale, Donald Trump's campaign manager, never seemed to learn. After boasting last week that the campaign had over one million ticket reservations for Trump's triumphal return to the campaign...
Christina Bohannan, Iowa House District 85’s likely next representative, pledges to use her slot in the House serving a deep-blue district to speak up for progressive policies and “take back the majority.” The University of Iowa law professor pulled off a rare primary...
It took Mallory Gosch an hour and fifteen minutes to gather the courage to step up and take the microphone at the racial justice discussion in Cresco, Iowa. The 14-year-old sat in the crowd of well over 100 as her mother and others took turns in the park raising their...
"Aye." "Aye." "Aye." The votes in favor came raining down from the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during the roll call for HF 2647, the criminal justice reform bill that sailed through the Capitol tonight in unprecedented fashion. Not even an hour before, just before...
"Aye." "Aye." "Aye." The votes in favor came raining down from the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during the roll call for HF 2647, the criminal justice reform bill that sailed through the Capitol tonight in unprecedented fashion. Not even an hour before, just before...
Ahead of November’s elections and the Iowa Legislature’s potential vote on a ‘Protect Life’ constitutional amendment, Planned Parenthood Advocates last week launched a six-figure campaign to hold state legislators accountable to “bad health care votes.” Iowans should...
Guest op-ed from Yena Balekyani, an organizer and marcher in the recent Des Moines-area protests following the murder of George Floyd. Across the globe, millions watched a Black man in Minnesota lie on the ground for nearly nine minutes, begging for his life, while a...
As sustained protests have swept Iowa and the nation in the wake of George Floyd's murder, one major idea that activists have pushed is that of defunding the police. The notion has many possible iterations, but the goal is generally to reimagine policing itself and...
The day has finally arrived, a day many dreamt and thought would never come: Steven King is defeated. He was beat by state Sen. Randy Feenstra during the primary elections on Tuesday. After 18 years in Congress, he became ineffective in representing Iowans that...
The day has finally arrived, a day many dreamt and thought would never come: Steven King is defeated. He was beat by state Sen. Randy Feenstra during the primary elections on Tuesday. After 18 years in Congress, he became ineffective in representing Iowans that...
For the first time in Iowa history, women will compete head-to-head in multiple federal races this fall. Female candidates were elected Tuesday on the Democratic and Republican tickets for U.S. Senate, Iowa's 1st, 2nd and 3rd Congressional districts. It's a stark...
Guest op-ed from former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge and Jeff Link, co-founders of Focus On Rural America. With the Iowa primary on Tuesday, the field of important races up and down the ballot will be set for the Fall campaign. In the wake of COVID-19 and an agricultural...
As Gov. Kim Reynolds continues to reopen Iowa, community members and businesses throughout the state are taking a more cautious approach. In West Liberty, Melanie Clark, a history teacher at the local school district, says now is not the time to reopen. She says the...
As Gov. Kim Reynolds continues to reopen Iowa, community members and businesses throughout the state are taking a more cautious approach. In West Liberty, Melanie Clark, a history teacher at the local school district, says now is not the time to reopen. She says the...
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a "gut punch" to three small-town Iowa newspapers, according to their publisher, forcing the local media outlets to cease publication and merge with larger papers. "It has impacted our operation like no other issue," said Becky...
