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IA-Sen: Ernst Still Not Calling For Wheeler’s Resignation

July 9, 2020

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. Theresa Greenfield, Democrats’ candidate for U.S. Senate, has worked to connect the…

IA-Sen: Ernst Still Not Calling For Wheeler’s Resignation

Two Dubuque Voters, Three Caucus Events, One Big Decision

January 7, 2020

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 and George take the job seriously — they went to three…

Two Dubuque Voters, Three Caucus Events, One Big Decision

Pro-Life Endorsement For Feenstra Undermines King’s Signature Issue

May 10, 2020

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 pro-life state in the union,” King said during a recent online forum…

Pro-Life Endorsement For Feenstra Undermines King’s Signature Issue

“Coach’s Kid” Takes On Former Speaker In Council Bluffs’ New Swing Seat

August 6, 2020

House District 16 candidate Jen Pellant is vying to serve her home city of Council Bluffs because she thinks the Iowa Legislature “needs more working Iowans representing working Iowans.” Hailing from a family of educators, the Democrat has spent the majority of her time as a working professional in the hospitality industry, with some experience…

“Coach’s Kid” Takes On Former Speaker In Council Bluffs’ New Swing Seat

August 6, 2020

House District 16 candidate Jen Pellant is vying to serve her home city of Council Bluffs because she thinks the Iowa Legislature “needs more working Iowans representing working Iowans.” Hailing from a family of educators, the Democrat has spent the majority of her time as a working professional in the hospitality industry, with some experience…

To A Union Audience, Klobuchar Pitches Plan For 21st-Century Jobs

December 6, 2019

Sen. Amy Klobuchar shared the details of her newly released plan for the future of work Thursday afternoon at the Machinists Union Lodge in Des Moines. Klobuchar spoke for nearly an hour with a table of Iowans about the new challenges workers and businesses face in a modern globalized economy. Panelists on the roundtable included Randy…

To A Union Audience, Klobuchar Pitches Plan For 21st-Century Jobs

Inside IBEW’s Efforts To Help Hotel Workers Unionize In Dubuque

November 19, 2019

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Dubuque is expanding its footprint by adding some nontraditional members to its ranks — hotel workers. In June, there was only one unionized hotel in Iowa. Casino and hotel workers at Prairie Meadows in Altoona were and still are represented by the American Federation of State, County and…

Inside IBEW’s Efforts To Help Hotel Workers Unionize In Dubuque

Cedar Rapids Union Scores Contract Victory For Workers

November 8, 2019

It has been a busy week for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Local 110 of Cedar Rapids. Nearly 700 workers of the RWDSU Local 110 ratified a new contract agreement with Quaker Oats last night, narrowly avoiding a strike. What’s more, the 500 RWDSU workers from the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids also…

Cedar Rapids Union Scores Contract Victory For Workers

Pandemic Deals Final Blow To 3 Longtime Iowa Newspapers

May 17, 2020

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 Maxwell, publisher of the Knoxville Journal-Express, Pella Chronicle and Centerville Daily Iowegian, of the pandemic.…

Pandemic Deals Final Blow To 3 Longtime Iowa Newspapers

May 17, 2020

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 Maxwell, publisher of the Knoxville Journal-Express, Pella Chronicle and Centerville Daily Iowegian, of the pandemic.…

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