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Emily Bruns had never met Abby Finkenauer before, but she had followed the US Senate candidate’s career closely. “I have been a fan since she was in the Iowa House and then followed her in [Congress],” said Bruns, a social studies teacher at Mason City High School....
It's less than a week after a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 Black grocery store shoppers and employees. It's one day after 4-year-old Savannah Holmes of Ankeny found her father's gun on the couch and accidentally shot and killed herself....
The important June 7 primary election is fast approaching in Iowa, with early voting already underway at local county auditor's offices. As more Iowans tune into the campaigns in the final weeks, the biggest contest is the race to take on Sen. Chuck Grassley. Three...
Owning a small business has always been difficult, particularly if you're facing discrimination because of your gender or race. Add in an economic crisis brought on by the perfect storm of a pandemic, supply chain problems, inflation, overseas conflicts, and empty...
State Rep. Jeff Shipley tried to create controversy at the Fairfield School Board meeting on Monday and faced strong resistance and pushback from the Fairfield community for using the school and its students for his own politics. Shipley was at the school board...
It's tempting, easy, or—let's be honest—lazy to only think of Iowa as a flat state divided into squares of corn and soybeans. That's what everyone else thinks of us, looking down from their airplane as it flies over, right? Sure, we're an agricultural state. Many of...
Pottawattamie County residents want a bigger say in how the county uses federal COVID relief dollars after the board of supervisors used $2 million to purchase a ski hill without public input. Calling themselves the Concerned Citizens of Pottawattamie County, the...
First-term Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has long dabbled with online fringe conspiracy theories, and two more recent incidents add to the pile. Photos posted by Miller-Meeks' campaign manager a week ago on Twitter show volunteers putting together yard signs while...
Hy-Vee, the West Des Moines-based grocer, confirmed to Axios and KCCI on Wednesday that it was laying off employees, but the company didn’t specify which departments or how many people lost their jobs. The grocery store chain told Axios the people they laid off were...
On March 23, 2021, two workers were killed and one taken hostage on the job at an Eastern Iowa prison. One year later, an Iowa labor union says more legislation is needed for corrections employees and their families. Robert McFarland, a 46-year-old corrections officer...
The labor strike at Eaton-Cobham Mission Systems in the Quad Cities ended Tuesday night after an agreement was reached between workers and management. More than 400 workers affiliated with Machinists Union Locals 388 and 1191, collectively District 6 and based at the...
US Rep. Cindy Axne secured $10 million in funding for a suite of projects across Iowa's 3rd Congressional District, which covers Des Moines and southwest Iowa. During an event at Primary Health Care Inc. in Des Moines on Tuesday, Axne, Iowa's lone Democrat at the...
Marshall County was among several in Iowa to receive millions in American Rescue Plan funding. Specifically, the funding went to UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown and Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA), both based in Marshalltown, to help them meet community needs and...
March 15 marks National Equal Pay Day in America—the date that symbolizes how far into the calendar year women must work in order to earn what men earned in the previous year. While Equal Pay Day arrived earlier than it has in its 26-year history—a sign that progress...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds was given a national platform Tuesday and she used a portion of it to elevate the parental rights argument Republicans nationwide are using to remake public schools more to their liking. Reynolds, who is expected to announce her intention to run...
Wapello County was among several in Iowa to receive millions in American Rescue Plan funding. Specifically, the funding went to the River Hills Health Center and the Southern Iowa Economic Development Association (SIEDA), both based in Ottumwa, to help them meet...
The Iowa Senate Education Committee passed Senate Study Bill 3080 on Thursday, which would provide funds from public schools for students to enroll in private schools. It passed with four Democrats voting against it—Sens. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames), Claire Celsi (D-Des...
House Republicans Skyler Wheeler (Orange City) and Henry Stone (Forest City) introduced a bill Wednesday that would bar transgender girls from playing school sports. The bill is expected by several lobbyists to be fast-tracked, which means it will be debated in an...
Are you a rural mayor wondering how you can get desperately-needed funding for schools in your community? Do you work in the Iowa Department of Transportation and brainstorm ways to improve public transit in the state? Did you lose your home in the devastating floods...
Rep. Norlin Mommsen (R-DeWitt) wants to add cameras that provide a live feed to just about every public school classroom in Iowa as part of his bill, HF 2177. While there are a number of concerns with the bill—the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act...
The effort to ban books has expanded beyond the classroom now to public libraries, with a new GOP-backed bill adding librarians to their target for prosecution and civil fines of those they believe give access to materials that are "obscene or harmful to minors." A...
Reps. Sandy Salmon (R-Janesville) and Brooke Boden (R-Indianola) introduced a bill Wednesday that would require providers to report complications from abortions, make changes to the current abortion reporting requirements, and create a database that documents...
A bill moving through the Iowa House would double-down on constitutionally protected religious rights. In a Thursday subcommittee meeting, Reps. Skyler Wheeler (R-Orange City), Sandy Salmon (R-Janesville), and Brian Meyer (D-Des Moines) discussed House File 593, a...
The Fairfield City Council passed a much-debated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statement in a split vote Monday night, but it took a big push from the city’s LGBTQ community to get the innocuous resolution approved. Alex Thole had not publicly come out as a...
State Rep. Sandy Salmon, a Janesville Republican, continues to use the Iowa House of Representatives to weaponize her disdain for the transgender community. Last year, Salmon sponsored bills that would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights code, thus...
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a major effort to address supply chain backlogs caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The federal government released $14 billion to the US Army Corps of Engineers to fund 500 projects, which will make it easier to...
A Fairfield city official went on a conspiracy-theory fueled tangent at Monday’s city council meeting after the city was asked to approve a statement of intent supporting diversity and equity. The statement would not be legally enforceable and was drafted by the...
Senate President Jake Chapman kicked off the new 2022 legislative session with a series of attacks and accusations against teachers and the media, accusing them of a "sinister agenda" that they're pushing upon Iowa school children. "The time has come to take a stand,"...
Wednesday morning, Rep. Cindy Axne met with mayors in and around the Des Moines metro to discuss how to get more bang for their buck out of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. For the most part, every mayor and city manager mentioned how projects they want to...
The Biden Administration recently announced moves to break up consolidation in the meatpacking industry and bring meat prices back under control. Monday, the Biden Administration announced it will invest $1 billion to expand independent meat processors, increase...
