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All the No Kings protests happening this weekend in Iowa

October 17, 2025

Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa It’s Friday, October 17, 2025. 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader replies! My take: We’ll be headed to No Kings protests tomorrow in Des Moines (Avery) and Waterloo (me); if you spot us, say hi! Now that our Cancer in Iowa series has wrapped, I’ll be…

All the No Kings protests happening this weekend in Iowa

Opinion: Johnson Co. supervisor: We’re still committed to affordable housing

April 15, 2024

This column, by Johnson County Supervisor Jon Green, is in response to a previous column by leaders from Escucha Mi Voz. On March 3, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors decided to shift funding in support of affordable housing from our American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocation to county general funds. We did so to…

Opinion: Johnson Co. supervisor: We’re still committed to affordable housing

Immigration attorney describes Iowa GOP anti-migrant bill as ‘redundant’

March 13, 2024

Immigration advocates noted there are a few issues with a new Republican-backed bill aimed at undocumented migrants that is working its way through the Iowa Legislature. HF 2608 would require the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to verify the citizenship status of anyone who applies for public assistance, something the agency already…

Immigration attorney describes Iowa GOP anti-migrant bill as ‘redundant’

🤑 You’re Not Stupid, It’s the Economy

September 11, 2024

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. Eight Iowans were killed on this day 23 years ago in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Read their stories from Notes on Iowa. Did you watch the debate last night? (Watching clips on social media counts!) Tell me your thoughts, and I’ll run them in…

Here’s who is running, so far, for Congress in Iowa in 2024

November 16, 2023

Iowa’s 2024 congressional races are starting to take shape as all four Republican officeholders have at least one Democratic challenger and, in one instance, a primary challenger. So who’s running for what office and where? Here’s a simple overview of Iowa’s four congressional districts, the incumbents who represent those districts, and the candidates who want…

Here’s who is running, so far, for Congress in Iowa in 2024

Iowan asks Republican lawmakers to focus on real issues instead of picking on libraries

February 12, 2024

Wearing a green Raygun T-shirt that touted her support of public libraries, Anita Christensen of Indianola laid out a case for why Iowa’s Republican lawmakers should stay hands-off when it comes to libraries during a Monday Iowa Senate subcommittee on the topic. “I believe that public libraries build community,” Christensen said. “What public entities invite…

Iowan asks Republican lawmakers to focus on real issues instead of picking on libraries

Three key takeaways from the Miller-Meeks-Bohannan results

November 8, 2024

As we take stock of what happened in 2024 and prepare for the road ahead, the results in the 1st Congressional District show some interesting trends. Here are some key takeaways from Tuesday’s election. In Iowa’s southeastern congressional district, not only do we not have an official call from the Associated Press late into the…

Three key takeaways from the Miller-Meeks-Bohannan results

Who Here Is In a Union?

April 17, 2024

News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024. It’s spring! Summer, maybe, with the temperatures last weekend? In any case, spring always (because I’m a masochist I guess) makes me think of spring cleaning, renewal, and reaffirmation of what I’m doing and why. So: I’m extending…

In Iowa, we love to drink. But no one told us alcohol causes cancer

September 16, 2025

The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa Share with a friend Amie here. I grew up in Iowa, where we’re steeped in a heavy drinking culture. Kids I grew up with drank by (at least) their early teens. I remember drinking in high school: bottles of Smirnoff Ice and Mike’s Hard Lemonade (what…

In Iowa, we love to drink. But no one told us alcohol causes cancer

Reynolds vetoes bill protecting landowners from eminent domain

June 12, 2025

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds vetoed a bill restricting private pipelines’ use of eminent domain, against the wishes of Iowa landowners and farmers.

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