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Christina Bohannan calls for recount of ‘razor-thin’ Iowa congressional race

November 14, 2024

Democrat Christina Bohannan is calling for a recount of all 20 counties in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. There is an 800-vote margin that separates Republican US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa and Democrat Christina Bohannan of Iowa City. Over 414,000 people voted in the election. And a 0.2 percentage point margin sets the two apart. …

Christina Bohannan calls for recount of ‘razor-thin’ Iowa congressional race

22 LGBTQ+ Pride events in Iowa (3 brand new!) in 2024

May 28, 2024

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. If you’re looking for Pride events in Iowa in 2024, here are 22 of them. The first Pride was in 1970, on the one-year commemoration of the Stonewall Uprising, which happened outside of the Stonewall Inn—a bar in New York City—on June 28, 1969. To be sure, LGBTQ+ activists had…

Want to see wildflowers in Iowa? Head to these 8 trails

April 20, 2025

Spring has sprung, and Iowa is officially in bloom. Check out these eight trails for the best views of wildflowers in Iowa.

Want to see wildflowers in Iowa? Head to these 8 trails

Davenport Starbucks is 2nd in Iowa to unionize

July 17, 2024

A second Starbucks has officially unionized in Iowa—and two workers there say they were almost the first. Eighteen workers at the Starbucks store on East 53rd Street in Davenport filed with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize in May. Out of 17 eligible voters, 16 of them voted—and 15 voted for the union, an…

Davenport Starbucks is 2nd in Iowa to unionize

✈️ Des Moines Allegiant pilot warns a strike could be coming

December 18, 2025

News about and for the working class Share with a friend “Allegiant needs to invest in their people and their pilots.” So says Tyler Heavey, a captain with Allegiant Airlines for the last six years. He told me he loves his job. But he doesn’t love the way the company has treated him…

✈️ Des Moines Allegiant pilot warns a strike could be coming

🏡 Flood Hits Northwest Iowa (And More Coming)

June 26, 2024

The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 26, 2024. I was planning to write about the Iowa governor vs. labor this week: Gov. Kim Reynolds was to appear in North Liberty Monday after the federal government cracked down on restaurants following Iowa’s lax child labor laws, which go…

🏡 Flood Hits Northwest Iowa (And More Coming)

Health Care Workers Say They’re Overworked and Patients Suffer

May 29, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Thursday, May 29, 2025. Workers at River Hills Community Health Centers in south central Iowa were fed up with being overworked and seeing their patients suffer as a result. So they decided to unionize. Over a hundred workers across six River Hills clinics announced this week in Ottumwa…

Health Care Workers Say They’re Overworked and Patients Suffer

A Mt. Pleasant man is facing deportation. Here’s how you can help

November 20, 2025

News about and for the working class Share with a friend The kidnapping goon squad gutting our workforce keeps rolling to more cities across the US. Its newest target is Charlotte, North Carolina, and soon ICE and Border Patrol will bring their terror to New Orleans. But deportations of immigrant workers continue to happen…

A Mt. Pleasant man is facing deportation. Here’s how you can help

‘I find MAHA rather hypocritical’: Your letters June 2, 2026

June 2, 2026

“We see the President eating fast food, sucking down soda pop, and eating very poorly, yet he sits and says American people on SNAP are causing a drain on medical costs due to their unhealthy eating habits.”

🎄 Chop your own Christmas tree at these 12 Iowa farms

December 5, 2025

Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday! Time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course, reader replies! 🪧 Tomorrow: Join striking Starbucks Iowa City baristas for a rally at noon Saturday outside the store at 228 S. Clinton St., which they’re encouraging…

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