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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…

Iowa leads the nation in binge drinking—and faces higher cancer risks from alcohol

September 17, 2025

Iowa is fourth in the nation for rates of alcohol-related cancers, and highest in the Midwest.

Iowa leads the nation in binge drinking—and faces higher cancer risks from alcohol

Plenty of putt-putt: 11 mini golf courses in Eastern Iowa

May 7, 2025

Mini golf is a fun activity for people of all ages, especially on outdoor courses during the warmer months. Check out this list of mini golf courses in Eastern Iowa.

Plenty of putt-putt: 11 mini golf courses in Eastern Iowa

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

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

🏡 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)

“Are these emails just about gay people?” Your letters, June 23, 2026

June 22, 2026

“I don’t care about gay people. What about straight people. What do we get.”

“Are these emails just about gay people?” Your letters, June 23, 2026

What we know about Ian Roberts, the Des Moines Superintendent arrested by ICE

October 1, 2025

The former Des Moines Public School superintendent’s arrest by ICE has garnered international attention and prompted a closer look at his background.

What we know about Ian Roberts, the Des Moines Superintendent arrested by ICE

Watch the 3 Iowa minor league baseball teams in 2024

June 17, 2024

Watch an Iowa minor league baseball team in a city near you. Baseball season is upon us, and while Iowa has no Major League Baseball (MLB) teams in residence (unless it’s the day they’re playing at the Field of Dreams), we’ve got three minor league baseball (MiLB) teams to watch—all unionized since 2023! Check out…

Watch the 3 Iowa minor league baseball teams in 2024

📄 Iowans Sued Over Noncompetes

September 18, 2024

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. I heard from two workers being sued by an Iowa company over a noncompete agreement they say is unfairly keeping them from finding other jobs. Seneca Companies was started in 1972 by Chris Risewick, who sold petroleum equipment. Over the decades, the Des Moines-based…

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