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Iowa Small-Market Airline Service Continues Decline: Part One

June 29, 2022

What’s happening with airports across the country as airlines deal with staffing shortages, capacity constraints, and delayed and canceled flights is nothing new to Iowa’s smaller-commercial airports. In a three-part series, Twitter user @AirspaceIowa will explain what’s been hindering Iowa’s smaller airports and what it means for their future. Part One: The pilot shortage…

Iowa Small-Market Airline Service Continues Decline: Part One

Before you vote: Here are 6 anti-worker laws passed by the Iowa Legislature

October 21, 2024

Let’s look at six of the most egregious anti-worker policies of the last few years—and which state legislators on your ballot have voted for them.

Before you vote: Here are 6 anti-worker laws passed by the Iowa Legislature

🗣️ What You Said About Reynolds’ Announcement

April 14, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Monday, Apr. 14, 2025. 🗣️ Amie here, and we’ve heard from lots of you regarding Gov. Kim Reynolds‘ announcement Friday that she won’t be seeking a third term running Iowa. So we’re running a special edition today of some of your responses! Read that article here, or watch a…

🗣️ What You Said About Reynolds’ Announcement

Opinion: I was an Iowa legislator. Where’s the substance to today’s bills?

March 26, 2024

In today’s hyper-partisan, emotion-fueled political environment, where policy proposals are seemingly presented and defended with facile slogans and tribal appeals, how can any citizen differentiate between the truly good and beneficial ones and those that either serve only a few or harm or denigrate others? I would like to advance a modest proposal based upon…

Opinion: I was an Iowa legislator. Where’s the substance to today’s bills?

When getting a raise means losing health care: Disabled Iowans fighting back

March 7, 2024

By all rights, Sioux City resident Erica Carter should be a success story. Despite a spinal cord injury 13 years ago—which left her unable to get out of bed without help—Carter was able to complete both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting. Today, she is the finance manager at a public school and is…

When getting a raise means losing health care: Disabled Iowans fighting back

Why the Dec. 5 Waterloo run-off election is big for the LGBTQ community

November 21, 2023

The Dec. 5 run-off election in Waterloo will be a match-up between a progressive voice on the city council who fights for LGBTQ protections and one who “clearly doesn’t.” That’s according to Jonathan Grieder, the progressive voice in that race and the current Ward 2 representative on the Waterloo City Council. He gave up his…

Why the Dec. 5 Waterloo run-off election is big for the LGBTQ community

🗣️ ‘This Bill is Bulls—‘

March 28, 2025

Share with a friend It’s Friday, Mar. 28, 2025. 🗣️ TGIF: Time for the Reader Sound-Off, where we share some of the feedback you all have sent me directly. But before I do, I wanted to thank you all for your donations to our fundraising drive! We had hoped to raise $2,000 from…

Starting Line’s most ‘WTF’ stories of 2023

December 18, 2023

Iowa had a number of “WTF” news stories in 2023. We recapped some of them including the Satanic Temple drama, the fallout between Kim Reynolds and Donald Trump, and more.

Starting Line’s most ‘WTF’ stories of 2023

This Iowa Bill Has Union Leaders Mad As Hell

February 21, 2024

And more news for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Jesse Case with the Teamsters Local 238 union has had ENOUGH. Iowa Republicans have been caving to corporate interests for years. But last week, after yet another bill undermining public workers was introduced…

This Iowa Bill Has Union Leaders Mad As Hell

UPDATE: Liberty Counsel Behind Waterloo Repeal of Conversion Therapy Ban

August 23, 2023

Three months after the Waterloo City Council passed a ban on conversion therapy for minors, the council reversed its decision in a 4-3 vote Monday. The controversial decision comes just days before Cedar Valley Pridefest begins. Why did the council repeal it? Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart, city attorney Martin Petersen, and at least some council…

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