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🌞 Baseball, the Best Ice Cream, and Your Guide to the State Fair

July 12, 2024

Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: July 12, 2024. Inside baseball: Iowa Rep. JD Scholten was back on the mound this past weekend, as a last-choice fill-in pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers, and the 44-year-old was so good in nearly 7 innings of work that he…

Your Ultimate Guide to U-Pick Hotspots in Iowa

September 7, 2023

Some say the food tastes better and the flowers are more beautiful when you pick them yourself. So grab a sun hat and a bushel basket and check out these u-pick farms across Iowa.

Cornhole Champions #7: Gov. Reynolds’ 2025 Condition of the State

January 15, 2025

Once again, Reynolds has been mum about her priorities for the Legislature. The rough strokes of her plan finally got a public recounting Tuesday with the Condition of the State address. To a packed Iowa House floor and repeated standing ovations, Gov. Kim Reynolds rattled through childcare and energy, Medicaid regulations and cancer research. On…

10 brunch spots in Iowa with bloody mary bars

June 30, 2024

If you are looking for a great spot to enjoy a delicious bunch with family and friends and appreciate a savory bloody mary, then you’ve come to the right place. Check out these eateries across the state that go above and beyond the brunch basics and offer bloody mary bars/cocktails that could be a whole…

New Bill Would Make Iowa’s City And School Elections Partisan

January 13, 2023

A new bill introduced by Sen. Brad Zaun (R-Urbandale) would make Iowa’s historically nonpartisan city council and school board elections into partisan races complete with primaries. SF23 would affect city council, school board, and merged area elections, but school board races would see the most significant changes. [inline-ad id=0] While some Iowa cities hold primary…

Iowa Abortion Access Fund going strong but needs a boost

December 7, 2023

The Iowa Abortion Access Fund is the second-oldest fund of its type in the country and its mission today remains the same as when it was founded in 1978: Not letting cost be a burden to care. The nonprofit provides grants to Iowans and Illinois residents who live in seven counties near the Quad Cities…

New Legislators: Janice Weiner Moves From Foreign Service To Statehouse

January 10, 2023

Most of Sen. Janice Weiner’s (D-Iowa City) life has been dedicated to public service. Serving her community is how she was raised, her personal philosophy, the majority of her life experience, and part of her Jewish values. “I view myself as a lifelong public servant,” she said. “And to me, this is part of continuing…

I Need Your Help Covering Child Labor in Iowa

January 24, 2024

And more news for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Hey folks, it’s Amie. I just got back from an amazing 2-day course on reporting on the workplace, and am now even more psyched to dig deep into stories about Iowa workers’ struggles.…

Iowa elementary school, grocery store, restaurants cited for food safety violations

September 23, 2025

Restaurant inspection update: Rodents, flies, larvae and gnats by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch September 22, 2025 State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants, schools and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past several weeks, including offenses related to rodents, cockroaches, long-expired food, moldy hummus and operating without a license. The…

Iowa Politicians, Abortion Advocates React To Abortion Ban

July 12, 2023

After the Iowa House and Senate passed a new abortion ban bill—which essentially caps abortions at just six weeks into pregnancy which is before most people find out they’re pregnant—reactions from abortion advocates and Iowa politicians came flooding in. Gov. Kim Reynolds, who called for the special session weeks after the Iowa Supreme Court enjoined…