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Two Dubuque Voters, Three Caucus Events, One Big Decision

Two Dubuque Voters, Three Caucus Events, One Big Decision

Dubuque residents Tom Townsend and Dave George have a big decision to make Feb. 3. As current and former business managers of local labor unions, they’re not only caucusing for their own interests but considering the needs of each of their chapter members. Townsend...

The Timeline Of A Candidate’s Response To Foreign Crisis

The Timeline Of A Candidate’s Response To Foreign Crisis

Whenever a major political or world event happens, the attention during this presidential primary quickly turns to how the individual Democratic candidates will respond. Where's their statement on the matter? Will they tweet out a response? What will the candidate say...

The Source Of Donald Trump’s Right-Wing Judges

The Source Of Donald Trump’s Right-Wing Judges

Though President Donald Trump was impeached and faces a trial to determine if he will be removed from office, his judicial nominees are still being heard and confirmed. Thirteen judges were confirmed the same week he was impeached in the House, bringing Trump’s number...

Inside Elizabeth Warren’s Push To Win Lee County

Inside Elizabeth Warren’s Push To Win Lee County

Patrick Rowley, the Lee County field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's campaign in Iowa, has an unlikely roommate. Like many young campaign staffers, Rowley lives with a local family in the county where he works. His Fort Madison hosts, however, did not discriminate...

Castro Fails To Make His Case Well On Caucus Criticism

Castro Fails To Make His Case Well On Caucus Criticism

Julian Castro took his new campaign message of ending Iowa and New Hampshire's status as the first presidential nominating states directly to Iowa caucus-goers last night. It did not go very well. Castro wanted to focus in on racial diversity and access problems with...

UI Utility Secrecy: A Blow To Public Accountability

UI Utility Secrecy: A Blow To Public Accountability

The Iowa Board of Regents is being asked this week to consider a complex proposal to turn the operation of the University of Iowa’s utility system over to an unnamed a business that will be paid to operate it for the next 50 years. The business will make a cash...

Watch: Local America Presidential Forum from Waterloo

Watch: Local America Presidential Forum from Waterloo

The Local America Presidential Forum, welcomed to Waterloo by Mayor Quentin Hart, was hosted by Accelerator for America and the United States Conference of Mayors, and was sponsored by Iowa Starting Line and Mediacom. The forum connected the wide-ranging federal...

Evans: It’s A Shame So Many See Compromise As Bad

Evans: It’s A Shame So Many See Compromise As Bad

Down through the ages, a pretty comprehensive list of sins has been compiled to guide our daily lives. Some have been added over time as society’s norms have changed, and others have been stricken from the list. I’m not here to preach to you about envy, gluttony or...

New IA-04 Rating: Steve King’s Reelection Hopes Worsening

New IA-04 Rating: Steve King’s Reelection Hopes Worsening

New ratings recently released on the competitiveness of U.S. House districts reflect positive momentum for Democrat J.D. Scholten and spell trouble for Congressman Steve King. Inside Elections moved the race for Iowa's 4th Congressional District from "Lean Republican"...

Lessons On Trump’s Lies From Eastern Europe Revolutions

Lessons On Trump’s Lies From Eastern Europe Revolutions

Guest op-ed from Jim Chrisinger, an Iowan assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Prague from 1987-1990 We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe in part because they followed decades of unwavering American support for democracy and freedom....

Contentious DSM Mayor Race Heads Toward Unpredictable Finish

Contentious DSM Mayor Race Heads Toward Unpredictable Finish

An expensive, surprisingly close run-off election for the Des Moines mayoral seat comes to a close tomorrow. The final weeks have featured attacks and counter-attacks as both candidates have criticized each others' records and backgrounds. Voters have been inundated...

Bernie Tries To Save The Bees

Bernie Tries To Save The Bees

Bernie Sanders, a die-hard baseball fan, took a swing this week at Major League Baseball and its proposal to shutter 42 Minor League Baseball teams, three of which are in Iowa. The proposal is far from finalized — the current Professional Baseball Agreement expires at...

How Sanders & AOC’s Green New Deal Cuts Housing Costs

How Sanders & AOC’s Green New Deal Cuts Housing Costs

After drawing record crowds during a successful Iowa trip earlier this month, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez again have joined together to introduce a new version of Green New Deal legislation, focused on...

Mayors Presidential Forum Is Coming To Waterloo

Mayors Presidential Forum Is Coming To Waterloo

The issues and challenges that Iowa cities face will get their time on the national stage early next month, as the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Accelerator for America brings a major presidential forum to Waterloo. Mayor Quentin Hart of Waterloo will welcome...

Advocates Plan Another Push For Voting Rights Restoration

Advocates Plan Another Push For Voting Rights Restoration

Of all the states in the country, only two permanently bar felons from voting and require them to petition the state to restore that right. One is Kentucky, the other is Iowa. Earlier in 2019, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds joined the effort to change Iowa law by...

What This Law Student Saw In Steve Bullock During An Internship

What This Law Student Saw In Steve Bullock During An Internship

Guest op-ed from Josh Smith, a law student at the University of North Carolina School of Law. I drove over 2,000 miles to work for Montana Gov. Steve Bullock in the summer of 2018. And more significant than that, in Montana’s 129 years of statehood, I am likely the...

Julián Castro’s Campaign For The Poor

Julián Castro’s Campaign For The Poor

Photo: Julian Castro tests out the beds at a supportive housing center before his Liberty and Justice event speech. Away from the rain and a slew of competitors' supporters last Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro toured affordable housing units at...

Democrats Flip Local Suburban Seats Across Polk County

Democrats Flip Local Suburban Seats Across Polk County

Photo: Matt Blake and Bridget Montgomery celebrate their election to the Urbandale City Council. Democrats' efforts to turn the Des Moines metro's suburbs blue made a big leap forward last night with the election of many progressive candidates to city councils and...

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