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During the second day of Sen. Cory Booker’s open-press, all-on-the-record bus trip across Iowa, the Senator was more settled into his travel and was getting some additional work done. He went up to the front of the bus several times to make phone calls and conduct...
Sen. Cory Booker set off on his four-day bus tour of Iowa yesterday morning, loading into his newly-wrapped ride that was adorned with the names of voters from around the country who donated to his campaign. Now off the debate stage, Booker is devoting even more time...
Yet another Democratic debate is in the books, the sixth one featuring several more contentious moments between the candidates that many expected to finally come. Elizabeth Warren faced off with Pete Buttigieg over fundraising strategies, while Amy Klobuchar got in...
Eighteen-year-old Amalia Hochman is a challenging teenager to get ahold of. As a senior in high school, she’s busy, but not with extracurricular activities or studying for chemistry tests. Hochman is consumed by her work as a Sunrise Movement youth organizer. After...
Grinnell, Iowa resident Alisa Schroeder lives in Willows Mobile Home Community, a manufactured housing site recently bought by a national company called Impact Communities. She’s a financially struggling single mom of an autistic son. Her brother, who has paranoid...
Iowa lawmakers are gathering Saturday to hear from mobile home residents in the state following this year’s reports of double-digit rent increases by out-of-state landlords. Concerns that the state is not upholding the rights of mobile home communities arose at the...
Several local races across Iowa have demonstrated to advocates that over time, housing issues have the potential to be winning campaign issues. Candidates in Urbandale, Iowa City and Ames won their bids for city council seats on platforms focused on affordable housing...
The conservative energy non-profit that campaigned against President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection is now set on targeting the Green New Deal and 2020 Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders' advocacy for it. In an advertisement released on Facebook and Instagram near...
Housing has had a moment during the 2020 election cycle, but some are wondering if the nation’s growing need for affordable options can mobilize voters enough to implement policy changes. Advocates say the sheer impact of the housing crisis, growing political will and...
Five 2020 Democratic candidates were peppered with questions in Waterloo, Iowa, on Friday, about their agendas for local America and asked how to lessen the disconnect between Washington and cities nationwide. Infrastructure, housing and economic development were...
Friday’s youth-led global climate strikes will include political star power at some Iowa rallies. 2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders will speak tomorrow morning at the Iowa Climate Strike in Des Moines outside the Capitol building. U.S. Senate candidate...
After Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Rosetta Robinson’s daughter had a baby, the two moved out of the small apartment they shared together, expecting to get a more spacious home within a few months. That was last year, and the women are still living in temporary living...
Believe it or not, presidential candidates occasionally campaign in states other than Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Weird, right? And as you might expect, the dynamics of events in a place like Chicago, Illinois, where early candidate visits are a...
During a significant few weeks for the nation’s widening affordable housing needs, several federal bill proposals and candidate plans were rolled out to address the crisis. In her role as a California senator, 2020 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris introduced last...
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...
Iowans gathered around TV screens across the state this evening to watch the fifth Democratic debate, and the Starting Line team was out there with them in the Des Moines area. There were less "neutral site" debate watch locations as Iowa activists start to make up...
During his first visit to Iowa since announcing his bid in the presidential race, Deval Patrick said his run is a little like the climate crisis: formidable but achievable. The former Massachusetts Governor’s abrupt entrance into the crowded 2020 race has been met...
Amid another rate increase request from Alliant Energy, renewable energy leaders and Iowans in its service area are wondering when the utility company's investments in wind and solar technology will pay off for consumers. More than 5,500 comments, mostly in opposition...
It began with an unexpected phone call from Beto O’Rourke. Radio reporter Bob Leonard of Knoxville, Iowa said he was in his office last March when he received the call, from a then-unknown number. “On the other end I heard, 'Hi Bob, this is Beto O’Rourke,’” Leonard...
Sen. Bernie Sanders has his sights set on being the 2020 election’s "climate candidate," and Green New Deal lead sponsor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is helping him get there. After the Vermont Senator trailed behind competitors Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South...
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...
This weekend, at presidential candidate events and forums throughout central Iowa, economic injustice against communities of color was a reoccurring theme — including discussion of homeownership disparities between black and brown families and their white neighbors....
Thirteen Democratic candidates for president delivered 10-minute stump speeches Friday night to a crowd of more than 13,000 people packed into Wells Fargo Arena in downtown Des Moines. The Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration was not only the...
Before presidential candidates and their supporters filed into Wells Fargo Arena Friday night for the Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration, rallies were held close by to pump up the crowd for the biggest event of the primary season. Starting Line...
Jeremy Jackson was part of the Vietnam War youth on picket lines during the nation’s civil rights movement in 1969. On Wednesday, the now 76-year-old professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, urged Iowans to follow his lead and get...
It was just over one year ago that Sen. Cory Booker made his first major pre-2020 appearance in Iowa, as the keynote speaker for the Iowa Democratic Party's fall dinner in 2018. His passionate, nearly hour-long speech on the day of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation put...
Housing advocates’ push to bring attention to affordability struggles fell short of the Iowa spotlight as the top five polling candidates caused the cancellation of a scheduled affordable housing debate this Friday. Top-tier candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren,...
Affordable housing advocates are making a case for municipal support to generally receptive local officials as a projected workforce housing crisis approaches Polk County. A newly released workforce housing study found Polk County will need to add 57,170 new housing...
Several mayoral candidates with extensive, but different backgrounds dealing with Des Moines’ rising shortage of affordable housing have proposed varied approaches to solve the issue ahead of Nov. 5 elections. Incumbent Mayor Frank Cownie, who has led the city through...
Al Gore still cares about climate change — now he’s meeting with Iowa farmers about environmentally-friendly farming practices. The former vice president gained international attention after his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," brought global warming more into...
