A new report highlights Iowa puppy mills with documented animal welfare violations. Fifteen Iowa dog breeding operations have been called out for animal welfare violations. Nine are repeat offenders. Four have been in the report at least half a dozen times. The annual...
The WNBA is ready to expand, and it should expand to Iowa—giving us our first professional team. The WNBA starts up this weekend, and it's arguably getting the most attention since its founding in 1997. Everybody knows that's largely due to Iowa Hawkeye Caitlin Clark,...
A new private school being opened by an Iowa State representative will be dependent on taxpayer funds to operate.
For decades, birth control has been a cornerstone of freedom. And that freedom doesn’t only apply to straight, cisgender women. Max Mowitz, a gender-affirming care doula who is also training to be a birth and postpartum doula, said birth control does a number of...
Based on your votes, we have compiled the results of our recent reader’s poll to determine the top bowling alleys in Iowa in 2024.
I want to thank Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen for doing us all a favor by finally saying the quiet part out loud: all the pushback on diversity is about protecting whiteness above all. While speaking to the Iowa Board of Regents on Thursday during...
Harvard University President Claudine Gay was feeling the heat nationally after failing to say straight out in congressional testimony that calling for Jewish genocide would violate Harvard’s bullying and harassment rules. It depended on context, Gay responded to a...
The Iowa Legislature set aside nearly $180 million for the state’s private school voucher program in the 2024-25 school year. This is an almost $50 million increase over original projections.
The US Department of Labor says updated regulations will increase income thresholds to ensure lower-income salaried employees are fairly compensated when they work more than 40 hours per week.
The new rule bans new noncompete agreements for the vast majority of American workers and requires employers to let current and past employees know they won’t enforce them going forward. Companies will also be required to throw out existing noncompete agreements.
