With contract negotiations starting up next week, the National Association of Letter Carriers is holding nationwide rallies to ask for a fair contract. Here's what they're asking for, and how you can support.
President Donald Trump has enacted sweeping tariffs on imported goods, igniting trade disputes and disrupting global markets. Some Iowa farmers are worried about how one president’s policy will impact rural Iowa’s future.
Iowa Republicans are trying to strip the next governor's powers before the election even happens. They've done it before.
Could Iowa phase out private school vouchers someday?
That’s what a grassroots group is working toward.
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) wants to get rid of vouchers and put the tax money that goes to private schools back into the public school system.
CCI is organizing people to urge their local school boards to pass a resolution that demands the governor and state legislature end vouchers, plus provide a 5% annual increase in public school funding.
So far at least 10 of Iowa’s 327 school districts have unanimously passed resolutions, including the Cedar Rapids Community School District.
That’s where Kelly McMahon is a kindergarten teacher.
✏️: Salina Heller
Iowa’s House delegation voted for the SAVE Act—a bill that makes registering to vote harder for the 69 million women whose birth certificates don’t match their married names.
US Marine and Army veteran Nathan Sage suspended his campaign for US Senate and endorsed Iowa Rep. Josh Turek.
If you live in Iowa, you know public school funding is a hot topic.
Educators warn of a “funding crisis” as state aid lags behind inflation. How much of a lag? State aid is now $888 less per student than it would have been if kept in line with inflation. That’s not $888 of new money—it would have been just enough aid to keep up with current expenses with inflation.
And it seems that things are about to get worse. For the upcoming school year, the Iowa Senate proposed a 1.75% increase in state aid. Gov. Kim Reynolds recommended 2%. Both fall short of the 5% increase requested by the Iowa State Education Association to keep pace with rising costs.
✏️: Salina Heller
Someone in Iowa decorated their car to look like immigration enforcement. It's illegal. And ICE and Border Patrol agents’ own tactics are making it impossible to tell the difference.
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice's ICE reporting hotline is 515-505-8805.
Workers are leaving Iowa in droves. One Iowan confronted Republican lawmakers about how striking state affirmative action policies and allowing for discrimination in professional licensure would only make the problem worse.
Iowa already banned over 3,000 books from school libraries. Now lawmakers want to make sure kids can't get to the public library either.
