An inflatable IUD that has toured the country and been mentioned by 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' and 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' stopped in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines this week.
Picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signals something big: Worker rights, and pro-worker policies, are back at the forefront of Democratic politics. On Tuesday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Walz as her running mate—arguably a progressive pick, given the...
Iowa students, including transgender and nonbinary children, will not enjoy new federal Title IX protections at school because Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, sued over them in federal court. On Aug. 1, the Title IX expanded rules went into effect...
Iowa Democrats unanimously endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential nomination.
Here are five things from Project 2025 that have already been implemented in the Hawkeye State. By now, you’ve probably already heard about Project 2025, a detailed and intricate plan created by the right-wing Heritage Foundation to completely overhaul the federal...
Abortion access will be harder once Iowa's near-total abortion ban goes into effect, but there are people and organizations working to make sure Iowans can still get abortion care. And they're not going anywhere.
Chief Political Correspondent Ty Rushing bids farewell to Iowa Starting Line. After 11 years—minus a six-month stint in corporate communications—my grind as a daily news reporter will come to an end Friday on what will be my last day as a full-time member of the...
Attorney General Brenna Bird said that Republicans support putting criminals in jail while speaking in support of former President and convicted felon Donald Trump. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird used her prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National...
Following a summer of disastrous floods and tornadoes, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced multiple new programs to help impacted farmers and citizens recover from damages. “We've all seen the photos of the neighborhoods that have been leveled, of towns completely...
Healthy Birth Day spent years advocating for a bill that would allow the use of federal funds to prevent stillbirths. July 22 would have marked Grace Elizabeth’s 21st birthday had she not been stillborn due to a true knot of the umbilical cord. Her parents thought...
