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UnityPoint is fighting United Nurses, but nurses won’t give up

June 4, 2026

Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Welcome to Thursday’s Almanac, for and about Iowa’s workers. If break time’s over, here’s the tl;dr: Six months later, UnityPoint still refuses to recognize its nurses union; Upcoming Iowa layoffs and worker news; Guess who ELSE hates generative AI? A Des Moines…

UnityPoint is fighting United Nurses, but nurses won’t give up

🗣️ ‘Listen, commie,’ and more angry reader letters

January 16, 2026

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 reader replies. Iowa’s first women’s sports bar, Heroics, is now open, and they’re having an official launch party Saturday. Iowa is the first state to ‘gain more control…

🗣️ ‘Listen, commie,’ and more angry reader letters

Nonprofit Distributes Free Reproductive Health Kits For Iowans

June 29, 2023

A new initiative launched by the Family Planning Council of Iowa (FPCI) aims to bring Iowans affordable health care by providing free reproductive health kits for those in need. The initiative comes one year after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court, which took away the federal right to access abortion for…

Nonprofit Distributes Free Reproductive Health Kits For Iowans

New Legislators: Adam Zabner Brings Youthful Voice To Iowa House

January 18, 2023

Adam Zabner only thought it was natural that what he thinks is Iowa’s youngest house district be represented by someone who is close in age to its primary constituents. The 23-year-old is the new representative for Iowa House District 90 in Iowa City, which includes most of the dorms at the University of Iowa, Kinnick…

New Legislators: Adam Zabner Brings Youthful Voice To Iowa House

Eastern Iowa Meatpacking Plant Workers Are Organizing And Winning

December 29, 2022

Ninoska Campos is a force to be reckoned with. She speaks little English, but is a native Spanish speaker—a language spoken by many immigrant meatpacking and farm workers in many southeastern Iowa manufacturing towns. Over the past year and a half, she has rallied those workers, bringing them to local meetings and encouraging them to…

Eastern Iowa Meatpacking Plant Workers Are Organizing And Winning

‘I gotta choose between gas and bread for my kids’

August 6, 2026

Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Welcome to Thursday’s Almanac, for and about Iowa’s workers. If break time’s over, here’s the tl;dr: ‘I gotta choose between gas and bread:’ Workers on strike in Cedar Rapids Upcoming Iowa layoffs and worker news briefs Prison labor is profitable for the…

‘I gotta choose between gas and bread for my kids’

‘Tough, Tenacious’ Minnette Doderer Fought Tirelessly for Iowa Women

March 23, 2023

Minnette Doderer was a trailblazing politician who served in the Iowa Legislature for 15 years, working on laws that ultimately improved Iowa women’s legal status. Born in 1923, Doderer was born in Holland, Iowa, and graduated from East High School in Waterloo. Women’s rights at forefront She was first elected in a 1964 special election,…

‘Tough, Tenacious’ Minnette Doderer Fought Tirelessly for Iowa Women

Cash for crowds at a Vance rally? We’ve got the scoop

May 12, 2026

Plus: Protests and reader soundoff Share with a friend 👽 Amie here. Files were released this weekend! (Ope, not the files we really wanted released, though.) In this issue: Candidate events and protests, this week’s viral post, and reader soundoff. Amie Rivers Newsletter Editor, Iowa Starting Line Email me Featured protests and rallies:…

Cash for crowds at a Vance rally? We’ve got the scoop

Iowa egg company scrambles over price-fixing suit

July 7, 2026

Plus: Events and your thoughts on a wealth tax Share with a friend Amie here. How do your pets do around fireworks? I have two cats and a dog, all with different reactions—Phoenix pants and paces, Bron huddles in his safe space, and (per usual) Bear don’t care. (A very close neighbor set off a…

Iowa egg company scrambles over price-fixing suit

Fed Rescue Plan ‘Funding Was A Lifeline’ Says Coralville Mayor

July 26, 2023

During the thick of the pandemic, among the issues that troubled Coralville Mayor Meghann Foster and other community leaders was figuring out how to make up for lost revenue while also trying to maintain city services many residents relied on. “We were very concerned with the impact that the pandemic was having on our more…

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