Here’s your wallet’s guide to 4 great steaks in Des Moines
You can enjoy cheap steak at these Des Moines steakhouses.
Apr
2024
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Apr
2024
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Hail Mary: Iowa has two women’s tackle football teams you can see this summer
Do you like football? Do you like women's sports? Have we got great news for you this summer! Women's tackle football has been around Iowa for the last two decades, and teams (and leagues) have come and gone in that time. (Diehards will remember the Iowa Crush,...
Apr
2024
9
Increasingly desperate Iowans stretching food banks to capacity
Leaders of a dozen food pantries across Iowa are sounding the alarm about a "soaring number" of Iowans seeking help at food banks, putting these already stretched organizations into a "crisis situation." The leaders and other advocates recently issued a joint press...
Apr
2024
5
Happy National Beer Day! Here are Starting Line’s favorite Iowa breweries
For those unaware, April 6 is New Beer's Eve, because it leads up to National Beer Day on April 7. Why April 7? On that day in 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect, making it legal for some low-alcohol beer and wine to be sold in the United States. The...
Mar
2024
26
7 Iowa events for Transgender Day of Visibility 2024
Transgender Iowans need joy these days. Eight separate bills have been considered in the latest session of the Iowa Legislature specifically targeting transgender youth, contributing to Iowa Republicans' 40 anti-LGBTQ bills in total. Fearmongering legislation—like...
Mar
2024
15
What will happen to 1,276 laid-off Tyson workers in Perry?
What will happen to the 1,276 Iowans who will lose their jobs when the Tyson pork processing plant in Perry closes in June? Roger Kail, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1155, represents workers at that plant, and that is something he...
Mar
2024
12
1,276 people to lose jobs when Tyson plant in Perry closes in June
1,276. That's how many people in and around the central Iowa town of Perry will lose their jobs by the end of June, after Tyson announced Monday it would permanently close its longtime pork processing plant there. That's a HUGE number of workers (and the largest...
Feb
2024
7
The best pizza in Iowa, according to Iowans
Where can you find the best pizza in Iowa?
Jan
2024
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15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day events across Iowa in 2024
They say Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday held this year on Jan. 15, 2024, should be "a day on, not a day off." So in that spirit, here are some events coming up honoring—and furthering the legacy of—one of this country's greatest civil rights leaders....
Jan
2024
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Rightwing trolls quickly took advantage of Perry tragedy
Even before the identity of the student who shot multiple people at Perry High School was confirmed by law enforcement Thursday afternoon, right-wing misinformation on social media was filling the void. Posts from verified and other accounts on Twitter (X) in the...
