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When introducing herself to voters at a Fort Madison sandwich shop, Theresa Greenfield didn’t just highlight her youth on a farm in Minnesota or her successful professional career. Greenfield got personal, telling the small group about the day, at 24 years old, she found out her husband had been killed at work. A union electrician…

Theresa Greenfield marched up to the Iowa Statehouse this morning, flanked by dozens of labor union members carrying boxes that contained over 20,000 signatures to put her on the ballot for the June primary. It was the most names of any of her Democratic competitors who also hope to take on Sen. Joni Ernst for…

Theresa Greenfield marched up to the Iowa Statehouse this morning, flanked by dozens of labor union members carrying boxes that contained over 20,000 signatures to put her on the ballot for the June primary. It was the most names of any of her Democratic competitors who also hope to take on Sen. Joni Ernst for…

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst voted yesterday to confirm Eugene Scalia as the new United States Secretary of Labor, a man who once argued that it’s OK to force workers with health issues to soil themselves on the job. Scalia was confirmed as the new labor secretary Thursday afternoon. Scalia, the son of the late Supreme…

The second in Starting Line’s three-part series of comparative pieces focuses on what each of the Democratic Senate candidates consider to be the issue of most importance to them. Absentee ballots will start to be mailed across Iowa on April 23 ahead of the June 2 primary. The race for Joni Ernst’s Senate seat is…