You may have heard two weeks ago that a man drove his car into an Iowa City homeless encampment. But you probably don't know the full story.
Before a Davenport stop on his Fight Oligarchy tour, US Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted an invite-only immigration forum with Escucha Mi Voz, a local immigration advocacy group, and the families of Iowans deported by ICE.
Father Guillermo Treviño is a Catholic priest from West Liberty and the godfather of Pascual Pedro Pedro, a 20 year-old Iowan who was detained at an immigration court hearing. He said the attention brought by a national figure like Sanders is a huge help in the fight to bring Pedro Pedro home.
On Friday, US Sen. Bernie Sanders told a crowd at an immigration forum in West Liberty that undocumented people were President Donald Trump’s favorite scapegoat.
He called President Trump a demagogue and detailed the ways the current administration criminalizes undocumented immigrants to distract from the real thieves: billionaires.
Polluting rivers? Call Attorney General Brenna Bird.
The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned a 2024 ruling that sought to protect some of Iowa's largest waterways that provide drinking water for half a million people.
Iowa's DOGE task force just released 45 recommendations for the state government. Unsurprisingly, they want to cut more social services.
Federal Medicaid cuts are expected to strip health care from 86,000 Iowans over the next ten years, but one rural hospital administrator warns the impacts could be felt in four to five months.
New recession indicator just dropped: defecting Republicans.
Christopher Prosch, the Republican candidate for Sioux City's upcoming special election, claimed US Capitol Police officers were "escorting" January 6 insurrectionists around the building. Former Capitol officer Harry Dunn says that's insulting.
7/29/25 marked one year since Iowa’s extreme and unpopular 6-week abortion ban went into effect. The Iowa Abortion Acces Fund (@iaafund) has since helped over 870 Iowans receive care out of state—but not without great physical, mental, and financial cost.
