Zach Nunn can't seem to find somebody representative of his district to publicly support him... weird.
This summer, Iowans learned that the State Historical Society's research center in Iowa City will close on June 30, 2026. More than half of the center's collection may be scattered, sold, or destroyed. Iowans are rightfully concerned about the potential loss of irreplaceable records of their state's history, many of which have been donated by locals.
Find out more on the latest episode of Cornhole Champions here: https://youtu.be/SMncHdWcPPo?si=kLBiLZDkGTs-iAhf
Iowa's skin cancer rates are sky high. A solution? Slip, slop, slap.
Find out more on the latest episode of Cornhole Champions, where host Zachary Oren Smith interviews dermatologist Dr. Marta Van Beek about the state's skin cancer problem: https://youtu.be/UlqbwTWClC8?si=T2gr77RcfZzJY0GQ
Iowa workers are bearing the cost of policy decisions made in Washington.
Find out more on the newest episode of Cornhole Champions here: https://youtu.be/7ThZiTN-fjU?si=cee_E4WTdyStZ-SH
The EPA removed Iowa drinking water sources from a list of impaired waterways, but not because the water quality got any better.
Librarians. Custodians. Middle and high school teachers.
When Iowa school administrators have to cut their budgets, they hope they can delay getting some new textbooks, or require fewer professional development classes for staff.
But when there’s nothing else to cut from the general fund anymore, it has to get a little more personal… and difficult.
It’s jobs—it’s PEOPLE—that have to be eliminated. That’s what’s happening in Waterloo Community Schools. Because of what the superintendent calls “a perfect storm,” there are 60 people whose jobs will be cut this coming school year.
✏️: Salina Heller
Will the pendulum swing back in 2026?
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.
