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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

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

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

Positively Iowa: A Local Chef Makes It Big

January 25, 2024

And more good news from Iowa! Share with a friend It’s Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The snow is starting to melt—and so are we, hearing about all this good news from Iowa! This week: Des Moines chef is semifinalist for top food award 🍲 Iowa City native appearing on popular reality dating show 💘…

Positively Iowa: A Local Chef Makes It Big

The future of cancer research in Iowa is uncertain—and lives are on the line

August 13, 2025

Iowa cancer patients are desperate for better screenings, treatments, and cures. Researchers are desperate to find them. So what’s the holdup?

The future of cancer research in Iowa is uncertain—and lives are on the line

Iowa Republicans want to ban local bans on conversion therapy

January 17, 2024

Iowa Republicans are continuing their attack on Home Rule in the Legislature this year, this time going after bans on widely discredited conversion therapy for minors. Iowa Sen. Sandy Salmon—a Republican from Janesville who represents Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw and most of Floyd counties—introduced Senate File 2037 last week. It passed out of a Senate subcommittee…

Iowa Republicans want to ban local bans on conversion therapy

This Could Be Iowa’s 3rd Unionized Starbucks

February 12, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. As Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) members representing more than 500 Starbucks stores nationwide prepare for mediation with their company—a huge step in their quest to begin bargaining a first contract—I spoke with workers at a Starbucks in Bettendorf who are getting ready for an election…

This Could Be Iowa’s 3rd Unionized Starbucks

Why it took nearly a century to bring Halloween to Des Moines

October 24, 2025

Plus: Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for Only in Iowa, Positively Iowa, this week’s pet photo, and of course reader replies! Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor, Iowa Starting Line Email me Why it took nearly a century to bring Halloween to Des Moines Two kids celebrating on…

Why it took nearly a century to bring Halloween to Des Moines

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

Report calls out 15 Iowa puppy mills for dog welfare violations

April 30, 2024

A new report highlights Iowa puppy mills with documented animal welfare violations. Fifteen Iowa dog breeding operations have been called out for animal welfare violations. Nine are repeat offenders. Four have been in the report at least half a dozen times. The annual “Horrible Hundred” puppy mills report is compiled by the Humane Society of…

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