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Tiptoe Through the Iowa Tulips 🌷

April 12, 2024

Your weekly Iowa news roundup Iowa Hawkeye star Caitlin Clark may not have been able to win a national championship. But don’t be sad it’s over; smile because the WNBA draft is happening on Monday! It’s Friday, Apr. 12, 2024. Hey folks, it’s Amie, and shh, I think it might finally be spring! Photo…

Inside Miller-Meeks’ million dollar haul: Washington D.C. donors, PAC money

April 25, 2025

The race for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District is shaping up to be the most competitive in 2026. And US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ first quarter fundraising gives her plenty to celebrate, thanks largely to PACs and out-of-state money. Less than 8% came from Iowa donors. US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks — the victor of not one but…

Inside Miller-Meeks’ million dollar haul: Washington D.C. donors, PAC money

🧑‍🔧 Cargill Cuts Off Health Insurance to Cedar Rapids Strikers

October 30, 2024

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. Cargill Corn workers in Cedar Rapids told me they don’t want you to forget about their struggle against the world’s largest grain trader. And that’s especially important this week, as Cargill cut off health insurance for its nearly 100 workers on strike. “For…

🧑‍🔧 Cargill Cuts Off Health Insurance to Cedar Rapids Strikers

Kalbach: Our libraries are under attack at the Iowa Statehouse

February 16, 2024

I love my local public library. Lots of people use our libraries regularly, whether to check out books and movies, use the internet, or make copies of important documents. Iowa’s small-town public libraries are anchor institutions. They make our lives so much richer. And in addition to books, libraries provide many other services and programs.…

Kalbach: Our libraries are under attack at the Iowa Statehouse

Iowa Olympians and Paralympians going to Paris in 2024

July 19, 2024

Meet Iowa’s Olympic athletes, including those who participated in past Olympics as well as Olympians and Paralympians headed to Paris this summer.

Iowa Olympians and Paralympians going to Paris in 2024

Johnston Parents Worry About District’s High-Level Resignations

September 6, 2022

After a fight to hire him in the first place, Louis Fountain resigned as the Johnston Community School District’s director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Fountain resigned on Aug. 26 and during a regular Johnston School Board meeting on Aug. 29, the board decided to wait to repost the position. Director of Communications and…

Johnston Parents Worry About District’s High-Level Resignations

Guest post: Iowa’s attempt to regionalize services hurts smaller communities

June 21, 2024

The main issue that got me active in politics is the impact that regionalization of services has on smaller cities and rural areas. In October 2013, I was working as a sexual assault advocate in my hometown of Muscatine when my company’s CEO announced the closure of our local domestic violence shelter. What this meant…

Guest post: Iowa’s attempt to regionalize services hurts smaller communities

Iowa slated to ban all future basic income programs

April 16, 2024

Sen. Bill Dotzler, 75, called the last two legislative sessions the “worst attack” on low-income and working-class Iowans he has ever seen. The Democrat from Waterloo—who has served in the legislature for over three decades—made those remarks Tuesday as the Iowa Senate spent a portion of the 100th day of the legislative session debating a…

Iowa slated to ban all future basic income programs

Iowa Republican blocks bill to expand firefighter cancer coverage

March 15, 2024

Sen. Jason Schultz (R-Schleswig) declined to advance a bill that would provide Iowa firefighters with more comprehensive disability coverage for cancer treatment. “In highly emotional situations like that, somebody has got to be the taxpayer’s watchdog and remove emotion and think logically about the situation,” Schultz, a former small-town fire chief, told the Iowa Standard.…

Iowa Republican blocks bill to expand firefighter cancer coverage

All the anti-abortion bills introduced by Iowa Republicans this year

January 29, 2024

Despite abortion being a losing issue for Republicans across the country, Iowa Republicans in the statehouse have decided to double down on pushing anti-abortion policies. Last year, several anti-abortion bills were introduced, and a July special session led to the implementation of a near-total abortion ban. That ban is currently blocked by a temporary injunction…

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