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Forget chocolate & vanilla—these 12 Iowa ice cream shops offer funky flavors

July 11, 2024

These Iowa ice cream parlors have some funky flavors that are sure to surprise and delight your taste buds. Happy National Ice Cream Month!

Forget chocolate & vanilla—these 12 Iowa ice cream shops offer funky flavors

Raise your stein: 9 Oktoberfest events across Iowa

September 20, 2024

Learn about nine Oktoberfest events happening across Iowa this September and October.

Raise your stein: 9 Oktoberfest events across Iowa

Guest post: Bohannan campaign showed anti-corporate greed message works

December 9, 2024

Christina Bohannan’s campaign website called for putting our Constitution over corporations, rejecting the corrupting influence of special interests, taking on corporate Big Ag and Big Oil giants, and fighting for a country in which people who work hard can rise above corporate greed. And it almost worked.

Guest post: Bohannan campaign showed anti-corporate greed message works

It’s election season in Iowa. What voters need to know for 2025 city and school elections

November 3, 2025

Iowans will soon head to the polls to cast their votes in the 2025 city council and school board elections.

It’s election season in Iowa. What voters need to know for 2025 city and school elections

What’s up with the HyVee Employees PAC? Reader letters for April 14, 2026

April 14, 2026

Readers soundoff on Iowa issues: April 14, 2026 HyVee bothsidesing: “I saw your piece about grocery shopping in Iowa. Thanks!I don’t know if this has ever been investigated by ISL, but there is a HyVee Employees PAC that takes in and distributes a fair amount of money to political candidates. …Some time ago I wrote the…

State wants to force biased curriculum on universities

March 19, 2026

Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. Dr. Chris Martin is a professor of communication and media at the University of Northern Iowa (and was also one of my UNI professors back in the aughts). But he may be better known for his advocacy for workers. Martin’s the…

State wants to force biased curriculum on universities

How Trump’s Immigration Raids Could Hurt Iowa

January 22, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. President Donald Trump’s promised large-scale immigration raids in major cities across the US could begin as early as this week (and have already begun in other places). And that’s likely to mean the worker shortage is about to get a lot worse. Immigration rights…

How Trump’s Immigration Raids Could Hurt Iowa

We set out to understand Iowa’s cancer crisis. Here’s what we learned

October 14, 2025

The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa Share with a friend Amie here. When my colleague Zachary Oren Smith and I started writing The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa in July, our goal was simple: We wanted to explore why Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the nation—and the fastest-growing one, even…

We set out to understand Iowa’s cancer crisis. Here’s what we learned

Anti-Apprenticeship Bill Rushed Through Iowa Legislature

March 26, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025. Amie here. There are lots of bills winding their way through the Iowa Legislature in a hurry now. But this one stuck out. I mentioned in last week’s newsletter how Iowa Republicans passed a controversial bill stopping local governments from requiring workforce training standards…

Anti-Apprenticeship Bill Rushed Through Iowa Legislature

A dozen burgers you don’t want to miss in Eastern Iowa

December 27, 2023

There’s not much that compares to the taste bud celebration that occurs when you bite into a delicious, mouth-watering, greasy cheeseburger. These local favorites in eastern Iowa—all of which are locally owned—are worth a pit stop the next time you’re on a burger binge.

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