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A big and genuine smile is the last thing you expect of a person who has more than one reason to be fearful and not accepted. But it was his smile that greeted me as I entered Selene’s place of work. Selene Cass is the name he uses when performing drag. We met in the...
A big and genuine smile is the last thing you expect of a person who has more than one reason to be fearful and not accepted. But it was his smile that greeted me as I entered Selene’s place of work. Selene Cass is the name he uses when performing drag. We met in the...
Iowa state Reps. Chris Hall of Sioux City and Monica Kurth of Davenport, along with state Sen. Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids, all endorsed Senator Amy Klobuchar in the Iowa Caucus this morning. Hall and Kurth announced their endorsement when they joined other current...
The American Postal Workers Union Local 44 of Central Iowa has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for president, the campaign announced today. "Senator Bernie Sanders stands for the working class people of this country," said DMI APWU Local 44 President Mike Bates. "He...
Fifteen Latina, Latino and Latinx elected officials and activists from Iowa have joined 100 other Latino leaders from across the nation in endorsing Senator Elizabeth Warren for president. Among those who endorsed Warren is Alfonso Medina, a small business owner in...
Andrew Yang was not on the debate stage Tuesday, but #AmericaNeedsYang was a top-five trend on Twitter. The Yang campaign believes they should have been on the debate stage, and Yang could still qualify for the Feb. 7 debate, held in New Hampshire four days before...
Andrew Yang was not on the debate stage Tuesday, but #AmericaNeedsYang was a top-five trend on Twitter. The Yang campaign believes they should have been on the debate stage, and Yang could still qualify for the Feb. 7 debate, held in New Hampshire four days before...
Maternity ward closings have left some significant gaps in Iowa's prenatal care and delivery services as rural hospitals struggle to keep their doors open. Across the United States, hospital deliveries are the standard. Despite positive trends over the last two...
Ten minutes after Bryce Smith, the chairman of the Dallas County Democrats, found out Sen. Cory Booker, who he had endorsed, was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, he received a phone call from another campaign. "My grandmother, who was sitting at home and is...
Tucked away in the bright front room of an Iowa City ranch home on a recent Sunday afternoon, Pete Buttigieg field organizer Ruby Goldberg seamlessly demonstrated a mock door-knocking simulation and casually rambled off persuasive canvassing skills at the precinct’s...
With three weeks left until caucus-goers make their presidential picks known, Sen. Elizabeth Warren returned to Iowa with big-name endorsers in tow and a second-place showing in the latest Iowa Poll. Voters at her two events in Central Iowa met her with the same...
With three weeks left until caucus-goers make their presidential picks known, Sen. Elizabeth Warren returned to Iowa with big-name endorsers in tow and a second-place showing in the latest Iowa Poll. Voters at her two events in Central Iowa met her with the same...
As the importance of climate change climbs in the polls, a recent endorsement from the national Sunrise Movement might drive home Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new leading spot in Iowa. At an Iowa City climate rally on Sunday, for the first time since the group’s Thursday...
As the importance of climate change climbs in the polls, a recent endorsement from the national Sunrise Movement might drive home Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new leading spot in Iowa. At an Iowa City climate rally on Sunday, for the first time since the group’s Thursday...
As the importance of climate change climbs in the polls, a recent endorsement from the national Sunrise Movement might drive home Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new leading spot in Iowa. At an Iowa City climate rally on Sunday, for the first time since the group’s Thursday...
Des Moines has opened a new exhibit linking current political and social issues with historical housing discrimination in the city, and 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney was one of its first guests. "Undesign the Redline" opened earlier this week at Franklin...
With 26 days to go until caucus-goers have the first say in who will be the Democratic nominee for president, candidates are revamping their efforts on Iowa airwaves. For U.S. senators, the possibility of getting pulled from the campaign trail in January to...
With 26 days to go until caucus-goers have the first say in who will be the Democratic nominee for president, candidates are revamping their efforts on Iowa airwaves. For U.S. senators, the possibility of getting pulled from the campaign trail in January to...
As Joe Biden takes campaign hits from both President Donald Trump and his competitors in the primary, firefighter union members will have the former vice president's back in the final weeks before the Iowa Caucus. During an interview with Starting Line this morning,...
As Joe Biden takes campaign hits from both President Donald Trump and his competitors in the primary, firefighter union members will have the former vice president's back in the final weeks before the Iowa Caucus. During an interview with Starting Line this morning,...
Iowan Andrew Redlawsk didn't think twice about picking up some shifts at Trump SoHo when a catering company he worked for was contracted to do a few random jobs at the hotel back in 2011. "At the time, the Trump SoHo was the venue," Redlawsk recalled of the New York...
The clock is ticking down on the end of 2019, though here in the Starting Line office, we're mostly just concerned with who's covering what candidate this weekend. I thought it would be nice to take a moment to look back at the very exciting, transformative year we've...
They're filling the gas tank back up in John Delaney's big blue RV for a final blitz across Iowa in the last month leading up to the caucus. Delaney and his team will embark upon a 40-stop tour in January, focusing their time in many tiny towns in rural counties as he...
The 99-county tour. It's been an ambitious goal for anyone looking to win over Iowa voters in every corner of the state. Candidates have completed it and love to talk about it, and it's become somewhat of a unicorn to chase while campaigning in the state. It's a great...
One of the tenets of Sen. Cory Booker’s 2020 presidential bid can be traced back to a Maya Angelou quote. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,” she said. The New Jersey Senator often...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar is in the midst of a 27-county barnstorm of Iowa, part of her effort to do the full 99-county tour before caucus night gets here. She's riding high after a solid debate performance, one that generated $1 million in donations to her in the 24 hours...
Yet another Democratic debate is in the books, the sixth one featuring several more contentious moments between the candidates that many expected to finally come. Elizabeth Warren faced off with Pete Buttigieg over fundraising strategies, while Amy Klobuchar got in...
Last night, people around the country took to the streets to demand accountability for Donald J. Trump, the fourth president in history to face impeachment. In Des Moines, hundreds of people gathered on the steps of the Iowa Capitol building with signs and chants....
Grinnell, Iowa resident Alisa Schroeder lives in Willows Mobile Home Community, a manufactured housing site recently bought by a national company called Impact Communities. She’s a financially struggling single mom of an autistic son. Her brother, who has paranoid...
Several local races across Iowa have demonstrated to advocates that over time, housing issues have the potential to be winning campaign issues. Candidates in Urbandale, Iowa City and Ames won their bids for city council seats on platforms focused on affordable housing...
