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The human element is getting lost among the testing and unemployment data of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Zarate and her family are getting the full experience. Zarate is a senior at Perry High School with parents recovering from COVID-19. Her father is almost 60...
Congressman Steve King often boasts of his anti-abortion accomplishments, the primary one being the "heartbeat" bill he introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that the Iowa Legislature would later pass a version of. "Iowa became, for a time, the No. 1 most...
Congresswoman Cindy Axne heard from several Iowa mayors Wednesday who are expecting multi-million-dollar budget shortfalls this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, with lasting impacts on local businesses, recreational offerings and municipal services still unknown....
Answers are creating more questions for the Perry community. Data released on Tuesday by the Iowa Department of Public Health confirmed 730 positive COVID-19 tests at the local Tyson meatpacking plant, 58 percent of the tested employees. The news of the positive...
Mowing grass is about the only aspect of life that is normal in Perry these days. As the Iowa town northwest of Des Moines deals with positive coronavirus tests at its local Tyson plant, several community members have organized—and continue to organize—ways of...
Iowans do not agree with their state's overall plans to reopen large sections of the economy starting tomorrow, a sweeping new national poll of the public's thoughts on the coronavirus shows. And Gov. Kim Reynolds' handling of the pandemic rates among the lowest for...
Iowans do not agree with their state's overall plans to reopen large sections of the economy starting tomorrow, a sweeping new national poll of the public's thoughts on the coronavirus shows. And Gov. Kim Reynolds' handling of the pandemic rates among the lowest for...
As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Iowa, focus has turned to the state’s meat packing plants as virus hotspots. In West Liberty, the state’s first Hispanic-majority town, the community’s largest employer is reporting an outbreak of coronavirus cases. As of...
If you watch Gov. Kim Reynolds' press conferences every day like several of us at Starting Line do, you know they fall into a general routine. The Governor and health leaders talk vaguely about metrics and data, which they're using to make decisions except when...
If you watch Gov. Kim Reynolds' press conferences every day like several of us at Starting Line do, you know they fall into a general routine. The Governor and health leaders talk vaguely about metrics and data, which they're using to make decisions except when...
If you watch Gov. Kim Reynolds' press conferences every day like several of us at Starting Line do, you know they fall into a general routine. The Governor and health leaders talk vaguely about metrics and data, which they're using to make decisions except when...
Después de algunas semanas de hablar con los trabajadores latinos y otros trabajadores inmigrantes de la industria de empacadoras de carne, me di cuenta de que muchos de ellos tienen dos cosas importantes en común: una es el miedo a perder su trabajo, la segunda es la...
When it comes to the problem of outbreaks at meatpacking facilities and whether to temporarily shut them down, the workers at the plants and the farmers selling their livestock to plants are often pitted against each other. JD Scholten, who’s running for Rep. Steve...
After a few weeks of talking to Latino and other immigrant workers from the meat packing industry, I realized that many of them have two significant things in common: One is fear of losing their jobs, second is the resounding voice of their children. This new...
By now, it’s undeniable that conditions at meatpacking facilities have been the leading cause of COVID-19 outbreaks in the Midwest. Today, Donald Trump will order meat processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure under Defense Production...
Each time Congress has passed legislation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers know another bill is not far behind. This time, as Democrats and Republicans spar over whether to prop up city and state budgets walloped by the pandemic, the scope of a fifth...
Each time Congress has passed legislation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers know another bill is not far behind. This time, as Democrats and Republicans spar over whether to prop up city and state budgets walloped by the pandemic, the scope of a fifth...
Each time Congress has passed legislation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers know another bill is not far behind. This time, as Democrats and Republicans spar over whether to prop up city and state budgets walloped by the pandemic, the scope of a fifth...
Today, Tyson Foods announced the closure of its Waterloo plant. Local officials in Black Hawk County have been calling for this for weeks as plant workers continued to test positive for COVID-19 and the overall number of positive cases in the county has dramatically...
The Tyson meat packing plant in Columbus Junction, where a major outbreak of COVID-19 turned Louisa County into one of the biggest per-capita hot spots in the country, is restarting some of its operations tomorrow. The plant closed on April 6 after over two dozen of...
The Tyson meat packing plant in Columbus Junction, where a major outbreak of COVID-19 turned Louisa County into one of the biggest per-capita hot spots in the country, is restarting some of its operations tomorrow. The plant closed on April 6 after over two dozen of...
As the number of Iowa's positive COVID-19 cases spiked over the weekend, Gov. Kim Reynolds said meatpacking plants in the state need to stay open for the sake of the food supply. At her Monday press conference, Reynolds said, “These also are essential businesses and...
As the number of Iowa's positive COVID-19 cases spiked over the weekend, Gov. Kim Reynolds said meatpacking plants in the state need to stay open for the sake of the food supply. At her Monday press conference, Reynolds said, “These also are essential businesses and...
As meat packing plants across Iowa experience outbreaks of the coroanvirus, local officials have stepped up to demand more while Gov. Kim Reynolds has largely communicated with business leaders. At a coronavirus briefing in Black Hawk County on Friday, Waterloo Mayor...
The growing number of coronavirus outbreaks in the Midwest's meat packing plants is getting worse. Various governors in the region continue to ignore or downplay outbreaks, and many plants continue to operate despite employees testing positive for COVID-19, the highly...
Early voting begins in one week and the June 2 primary election is 47 days away, but instead of a fundraising show of force for the incumbent, Congressman Steve King reported another dismal quarter to kick off 2020. King, in a five-way Republican primary contest to...
A volunteer emergency medical technician debates when it's necessary to use personal protective equipment and when it's not so he can conserve the supply. A grandmother rarely leaves her apartment for fear of contracting the virus and spreading it to her family. A...
With seven weeks to go until the June 2 primary, retired admiral Mike Franken is getting a boost from a collection of local Democratic Party leaders, activists and a county auditor. Sixteen of them endorsed Franken on Tuesday in his bid to become the Democratic...
Guest op-ed from Sami Scheetz, former Iowa Constituency Outreach Director for Bernie Sanders. For more than 150 years, Iowa has served as a progressive beacon for the rest of the nation. We outlawed the death penalty nearly 60 years ago and became one of the first...
Guest op-ed from Sami Scheetz, former Iowa Constituency Outreach Director for Bernie Sanders. For more than 150 years, Iowa has served as a progressive beacon for the rest of the nation. We outlawed the death penalty nearly 60 years ago and became one of the first...
