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I will never forget the movie “Fields of Dreams” and its popular quote: “build it and they will come." It may sound cliché, but it is true; when you build community, people gravitate toward that community or the persons who make that community great, regardless of...
A group of ten African American leaders and elected officials are endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Warren for the Iowa Caucus, adding to her coalition-building efforts in the lead-off state. North Liberty City Councilmember Raquishia Harrington and Ankeny School Boardmember...
After another campaign swing through Iowa that saw large crowds turn out for Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend Mayor announced a new set of endorsements from 20 Democratic and community leaders from across the state. Nine local elected officials, along with another four...
Former Vice President Joe Biden's eight-day 'No Malarkey' bus tour across Iowa isn't full of shenanigans. In fact, it's really quite serious. Biden spent the first five days of the 660-mile tour discussing a variety of weighty topics with voters in the...
Friday’s youth-led global climate strikes will include political star power at some Iowa rallies. 2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders will speak tomorrow morning at the Iowa Climate Strike in Des Moines outside the Capitol building. U.S. Senate candidate...
Believe it or not, presidential candidates occasionally campaign in states other than Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Weird, right? And as you might expect, the dynamics of events in a place like Chicago, Illinois, where early candidate visits are a...
Rachel Junck, an Iowa State University student and born-and-raised Ames native, won her runoff race against incumbent Chris Nelson to win the 4th Ward City Council seat. Rachel is a chemical engineering student at Iowa State and will graduate in the spring of 2021....
Accessing healthy food in rural America can be a struggle. It's an odd paradox: small farming communities in "the nation's breadbasket" where buying a loaf of bread might not be an option. Looking at a USDA map of food deserts would alarm most people. Many would be...
The best weather to grow peppers is at 80 degrees in the daytime and no less than 55 in the evening. Texas was, and remains, a great place for peppers. Martin Perez knows this because was born and raised in Michoacan, Mexico, and came to work in the Texas pepper...
During a significant few weeks for the nation’s widening affordable housing needs, several federal bill proposals and candidate plans were rolled out to address the crisis. In her role as a California senator, 2020 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris introduced last...
In his first appearance since taking the lead in Iowa polls, Mayor Pete Buttigieg spent the past two days in Western Iowa, a conservative stronghold and sparsely populated part of the state. On Monday, he visited Red Oak, Creston, Atlantic and Council Bluffs. On...
The acknowledgment of transgender Iowans appears to have deeply upset a pair of Republican lawmakers in Iowa. State Rep. Skyler Wheeler called the flying of a transgender flag over the Iowa Capitol for a few minutes "one of the most egregious acts of political...
Marianne Williamson was not on the debate stage Wednesday night in Atlanta. The last time she qualified for a debate was in July when she spoke for about nine minutes over the course of a long night. Instead, she hosted an event in Fairfield, Iowa, home to her one,...
Elizabeth Warren brought her number of Iowa state legislator endorsements to ten today following last night's Democratic debate. Cedar Rapids State Representative Art Staed announced he'd be in Warren's corner on caucus night, along with 24 other notable Iowa...
For the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Iowa Safe Schools made history and flew the transgender pride flag at the Iowa State Capitol Building. Nate Monson, the executive director of Iowa Safe Schools, said it sent an important message to Iowans. “Doing something like...
During his first visit to Iowa since announcing his bid in the presidential race, Deval Patrick said his run is a little like the climate crisis: formidable but achievable. The former Massachusetts Governor’s abrupt entrance into the crowded 2020 race has been met...
Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South Bend...
In late October, former Vice President Joe Biden indicated he would no longer oppose super PAC money for his campaign, breaking ranks with the majority of the Democratic field. Rejecting money from corporate Political Action Committees has been one of the major...
Latinx candidates made history last week in city council elections and school board races across Iowa. We wanted to know about some of the challenges they faced running for office and what comes next in their political careers. To find out, we interviewed Rob Barron,...
This past weekend saw what will likely be the largest caucus events for an individual candidate until the last several weeks before February 3. Bernie Sanders turned out crowds of over 2,000 at each of his events with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Des...
Sen. Bernie Sanders has his sights set on being the 2020 election’s "climate candidate," and Green New Deal lead sponsor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is helping him get there. After the Vermont Senator trailed behind competitors Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South...
Sen. Cory Booker's focus on helping down-ballot Democrats has certainly not gone unnoticed in Iowa, and a new round of endorsements out today for Booker come in part from newly-elected Iowans. Courtney Clarke, the mayor-elect of Waukee, and two city...
The commit-to-caucus cards starting piling up at Pete Buttigieg events across northern Iowa this past week, as caucus-goers saw the candidate at very well-attended events in rural counties. Now, a few days after his bus tour and performance at the Liberty and Justice...
Guest op-ed from Dennis Cole of Shenandoah, Iowa, past Page County Democrats chair. As Iowans, we have a very important responsibility in our democracy. The first-in-the-nation caucuses bestow upon us a great opportunity to lead America in the political and moral...
Congresswoman Katie Porter, a rising star in the Democratic Party and House of Representatives, returned to her home state of Iowa this weekend to support her mentor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Porter was born in Fort Dodge and grew up in Iowa before becoming a...
Maria Ramos is a wife, mother, grandmother and first-generation immigrant. Born and raised in Nayarit, Mexico, Ramos came to California when she was 12 and moved to Storm Lake, in northwest Iowa, in 1991. Ramos, 44, is a proud U.S. citizen who has lived with her four...
Thirteen Democratic candidates for president delivered 10-minute stump speeches Friday night to a crowd of more than 13,000 people packed into Wells Fargo Arena in downtown Des Moines. The Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration was not only the...
Jeremy Jackson was part of the Vietnam War youth on picket lines during the nation’s civil rights movement in 1969. On Wednesday, the now 76-year-old professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, urged Iowans to follow his lead and get...
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Friday visited Des Moines this weekend to talk about the state of U.S. politics, what she's working on as Speaker and, of course, Donald Trump. Understandably, there was a healthy amount of time set aside early for Pelosi to talk...
Guest column from Drake University student Samantha Bayne. I re-registered to vote on Constitution Day, September 17th, 2019. I know that because I registered myself, before an event I led to introduce first-year Drake University students to the world of Iowa...
