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Iowa House District 92 candidate Jennifer Kakert has successfully tried her hand working at a multinational corporation, doing property development in the Quad Cities and owning a downtown Davenport small business while being on the board of several non-profits and...
The Women's Committee for the 11th District IBEW has turned economic uncertainty and public health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity to boost a Dubuque food pantry, raising funds through bottle and can collection and private donations to...
The Women's Committee for the 11th District IBEW has turned economic uncertainty and public health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity to boost a Dubuque food pantry, raising funds through bottle and can collection and private donations to...
Iowa Democrats have made the Renewable Fuel Standard and ethanol industry a central part of their campaign against Joni Ernst this month as they work to paint the first-term senator as an ineffective politician who has not delivered for a key constituency: farmers....
Iowa Democrats have made the Renewable Fuel Standard and ethanol industry a central part of their campaign against Joni Ernst this month as they work to paint the first-term senator as an ineffective politician who has not delivered for a key constituency: farmers....
Iowa Democrats have made the Renewable Fuel Standard and ethanol industry a central part of their campaign against Joni Ernst this month as they work to paint the first-term senator as an ineffective politician who has not delivered for a key constituency: farmers....
Inside Pleasant Hill’s Berean Assembly of God, a nondenominational church next to a McDonald’s twenty minutes east of Des Moines, retired Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman asked a packed amphitheater in March 2018 if they were prepared to protect their neighbors from "the...
Our children stopped attending school since the lockdown this past spring due to the pandemic. Parents, grandparents and guardians wondered how kids would return to school safely and what the state of Iowa would do to protect them. COVID-19 is relentless. It is now...
Our children stopped attending school since the lockdown this past spring due to the pandemic. Parents, grandparents and guardians wondered how kids would return to school safely and what the state of Iowa would do to protect them. COVID-19 is relentless. It is now...
Iowa's three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. The Washington, D.C. Admission Act passed the Democrat-controlled House along party lines, 232-180. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota was the only...
Six hundred state employees working Iowa’s COVID-19 response were cut and two Test Iowa Sites closed this week while the state reported escalated coronavirus cases and COVID-related deaths. The Iowa National Guard on Tuesday merged three separate task forces staffed...
The Iowa Democratic Party this week filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, asking it to investigate a Marion-based super PAC that has not publicly reported the money it has spent on a radio ad critical of Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer. According to...
The Iowa Democratic Party this week filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, asking it to investigate a Marion-based super PAC that has not publicly reported the money it has spent on a radio ad critical of Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer. According to...
The Iowa Democratic Party this week filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, asking it to investigate a Marion-based super PAC that has not publicly reported the money it has spent on a radio ad critical of Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer. According to...
As the United States turns its attention to the crisis of injustice and racism, the coronavirus pandemic still rages on, continuing to impact the most vulnerable among us. For many Iowans working in meatpacking plants, the virus not only continues to threaten their...
"Aye." "Aye." "Aye." The votes in favor came raining down from the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during the roll call for HF 2647, the criminal justice reform bill that sailed through the Capitol tonight in unprecedented fashion. Not even an hour before, just before...
"Aye." "Aye." "Aye." The votes in favor came raining down from the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during the roll call for HF 2647, the criminal justice reform bill that sailed through the Capitol tonight in unprecedented fashion. Not even an hour before, just before...
One of the benefits of writing a memoir, particularly for a politician, is the ability to tell your own story and influence voters' perception of you. In "Daughter of the Heartland: My Ode to the Country That Raised Me," Joni Ernst says her debut book "is much more"...
One of the benefits of writing a memoir, particularly for a politician, is the ability to tell your own story and influence voters' perception of you. In "Daughter of the Heartland: My Ode to the Country That Raised Me," Joni Ernst says her debut book "is much more"...
As sustained protests have swept Iowa and the nation in the wake of George Floyd's murder, one major idea that activists have pushed is that of defunding the police. The notion has many possible iterations, but the goal is generally to reimagine policing itself and...
George Floyd’s name was mentioned frequently around Iowa’s capitol building Wednesday night, along with cries for racial equity across the state. Hundreds have taken to the streets of Des Moines throughout the past week — sometimes in front of the Statehouse —...
The coronavirus has ravaged meatpacking plants across Iowa in the past two months, infecting thousands of workers and killing some, all while the companies who run them face scrutiny over their lack of sufficient health protections. Over 1,500 meatpacking workers have...
The coronavirus has ravaged meatpacking plants across Iowa in the past two months, infecting thousands of workers and killing some, all while the companies who run them face scrutiny over their lack of sufficient health protections. Over 1,500 meatpacking workers have...
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a "gut punch" to three small-town Iowa newspapers, according to their publisher, forcing the local media outlets to cease publication and merge with larger papers. "It has impacted our operation like no other issue," said Becky...
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a "gut punch" to three small-town Iowa newspapers, according to their publisher, forcing the local media outlets to cease publication and merge with larger papers. "It has impacted our operation like no other issue," said Becky...
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a "gut punch" to three small-town Iowa newspapers, according to their publisher, forcing the local media outlets to cease publication and merge with larger papers. "It has impacted our operation like no other issue," said Becky...
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...
Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Des Moines today, Iowa Democrats used the opportunity to point out the ways they believe the Trump Administration and Gov. Kim Reynolds have failed to protect frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. As they were...
Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Des Moines today, Iowa Democrats used the opportunity to point out the ways they believe the Trump Administration and Gov. Kim Reynolds have failed to protect frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. As they were...
Guest post by Mark Sarcone, editor and legislative director for Des Moines' American Postal Workers Union I am a proud postal worker. During this coronavirus pandemic, my fellow frontline coworkers and I continue to go to work every day, even in these dangerous times,...
