🚨TW: mentions of sexual violence
Christopher Prosch, the Republican nominee for Iowa Senate District 1, said victims of r*pe and inc*st should carry pregnancies to term in a 2022 YouTube video with Veterans for Trump.
It's easier than you think...
President Donald Trump is making a trip to Iowa this week. We're watching for which Iowa Republicans make a mad dash for a seat at his table.
Check out more on the newest episode of Cornhole Champions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yD_H1l6wc
The Trump administration wants to cut Job Corps programs across the country, which will leave a big gap in Ottumwa's community.
Learn more about it on the latest episode of Cornhole Champions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzECAsvY2wI
This morning, Iowa became one of the first states to remove the civil rights of transgender residents. Here's one story from an Iowan impacted by the change.
Where's the love for social safety nets?
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US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks says the US Senate GOP bill and its massive cuts to Medicaid are too much. But will that change her willingness to vote for it?
“Survival mode.”
That’s what Rep. Heather Matson says Iowa’s public school districts are operating in these days.
And in just a couple of short months, there will be another issue added to the growing list of Republican moves that are hurting the state's more than 300 public school districts.
Besides being underfunded, not having teacher candidates to hire, and a voucher system that diverts public funds from public schools to private, the new trouble will be a requirement for public schools to let private school students play in their sports programs.
Matson says she worries about “the possible fiscal and logistical implications.”
Iowa is in a maternal health crisis.
With one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the country since the overturning of Roe v. Wade (three years ago this week), clinics and hospitals are having a hard time recruiting OB-GYNs.
Iowa’s year-old statewide abortion ban prohibits most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they’re pregnant.
Dr. Karla Solheim reflects on Iowa’s maternal health care scene since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned the decades-long protections for women that were secured from Roe v. Wade.
The Trump administration's massive cuts to federal programs has reached Ottumwa's Job Corps site, taking away jobs and an economic safety net from one of Iowa's poorest counties.
Learn more on the latest episode of Cornhole Champions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzECAsvY2wI
