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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 speaking, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs reported that Pence’s flight to Iowa was delayed…

South Central Iowa Federation of Labor members volunteered to fill around 325 baskets of food, equal to about 6,500 individual meals, at the United Auto Workers Local 450 hall in Des Moines Friday morning. The food will be distributed to United Way agencies such as Creative Visions, Visiting Nurses and EveryStep Hospice. They will also…

The battle for control of the Iowa Statehouse is getting even more interesting as we’re about to reach the finish line. The last finance report put out Friday shows new races coming onto the board late for Democrats, while Republicans have fully pulled out of some districts. Democrats’ financial advantage has become even more clear…

Since the fall of 2017, tens of thousands of public sector employees in Iowa have participated in annual recertification elections to maintain their union representation. Recertification became a mandatory requirement for public sector unions across the state when the Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature instituted sweeping changes to the state’s decades-old collective bargaining law. In addition to…

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 turning the United States into the wrong kind of world leader,…

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 turning the United States into the wrong kind of world leader,…

Donald Trump cheapens, degrades, demeans and corrupts almost everything he touches. With little regard for the law and societal norms, with massive regard for his own status, fortune and future, the president has made many of our most honored institutions and traditions mere masquerades. He’s thrown a sheen of legitimacy over a rot of self-dealing,…