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  • 🍓 Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon Collide!

    June 21, 2024

    Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s Friday, June 21, 2024. The summer solstice, or longest day of the year—when the North Pole is most tilted toward the sun—was yesterday.   But if you’re looking for fun Iowa solstice events, there are a few you can still check out this weekend; read…

    🍓 Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon Collide!
  • WATCH: Sweet corn slander + why votes go further in Iowa’s local elections (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #39

    September 17, 2025

    Sweet corn is Iowa’s pride, but at least one of our hosts thinks it’s “completely overrated garbage that belongs in the trash.” He must be stopped. Also on this episode of Cornhole Champions, hosts Zachary Oren Smith, Amie Rivers and Avery Staker dig into something that actually matters: Iowa’s upcoming local elections. With voter turnout…

    WATCH: Sweet corn slander + why votes go further in Iowa’s local elections (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #39
  • We went looking for Iowa’s queer community. Here’s what we found.

    June 3, 2026

    Let’s Make Iowa Gay Again. Share with a friend Amie here, and welcome to our June miniseries, LGBTQ–IA!   Most of what hits the news these days about the queer Iowa community is negative. The Iowa Legislature passes new laws every year, restricting everything from books to bathrooms and doing away with housing and employment rights.…

    We went looking for Iowa’s queer community. Here’s what we found.
  • Reproductive health care in Iowa ‘not going anywhere’

    November 13, 2023

    While the abortion landscape across the country has changed dramatically since the overturn of Roe v Wade, Francine Thompson is confident abortion care isn’t going anywhere. “I’ve been here for 36 years, and there’s been a number of challenges—and a number of potential threats—to not being able to provide abortion over those years,” Thompson said.…

    Reproductive health care in Iowa ‘not going anywhere’
  • Sand announces 100 Iowa Republicans backing his governor bid

    June 22, 2026

    “I don’t know Zach Lahn from a hill of beans,” said one of the more than 100 Republicans now backing the Democratic nominee.

    Sand announces 100 Iowa Republicans backing his governor bid
  • 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…

    New Bill Would Make Iowa’s City And School Elections Partisan
  • Instead of fixing real issues, Iowa Republicans push 10 bills to discriminate against LGBTQ Iowans

    January 29, 2024

    We are less than a month into the 2024 Iowa Legislative Session and the Republicans in charge of Iowa’s state government have been busy— and by busy, we mean coming up with new ways to legally discriminate against LGBTQ Iowans. As Iowans struggle with stagnant wages, budget shortfalls in public schools, worsened water quality, higher…

    Instead of fixing real issues, Iowa Republicans push 10 bills to discriminate against LGBTQ Iowans
  • 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…

    New Legislators: Janice Weiner Moves From Foreign Service To Statehouse
  • 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…

    Iowa Politicians, Abortion Advocates React To Abortion Ban
  • Farmers haven’t profited in a decade: Iowa Worker’s Almanac layoffs and news, Feb. 6, 2026

    February 6, 2026

    Working-class news you can use for Feb. 6, 2026:

    Farmers haven’t profited in a decade: Iowa Worker’s Almanac layoffs and news, Feb. 6, 2026
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