Videos
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Trone Garriott: ‘We need to scrap the cap on Social Security’
Democratic congressional candidate Sarah Trone Garriott says she would lift the cap on earnings taxed for Social Security—which is currently set at $184,500—at a Des Moines roundtable Tuesday.
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Iowans are not afraid to vote for the party that fights for them
“Farmers are bleeding money like crazy.” Watch this MS Now interview with an Iowan on how voting trends could shift.
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Ashley Hinson has a Trump problem
Ashley Hinson said she’d be Donald Trump’s “top ally” in the Senate. At Wednesday’s debate, she said she’ll push back on him too. We looked at her record.
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Iowa City school bus driver at No Kings: ‘I want the Epstein files released’
Her top ask: release the Epstein files and prosecute whoever is named in them.
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How Iowa’s attorney general could help enforce child labor laws
The state of Iowa doesn’t help much with enforcing labor laws, says Charlie Wishman, president of the Iowa Federation of Labor. But he thinks a plan from attorney general candidate Nate Willems could turn that around.
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How the state auditor can hold Iowa’s voucher program accountable
Candidate for state auditor Taylor Wettach details how the position can act as the first line of defense against the misuse of tax dollars, especially regarding Iowa’s private school tuition voucher program.
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Rob Sand calls out two-party system
Iowa State Auditor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand criticized the country’s two-party political system during an Oct. 14 debate with Republican Zach Lahn in Sioux City.
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What Miller-Meeks bought with your money over three months
Trump’s White House and US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks both use taxpayer money for ads about themselves. We pulled the receipts.
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Zach Lahn floats a 2.5-cent sales tax hike to offset nixing property taxes
GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn’s top goal is making Iowa the first state to eliminate property taxes on primary homes. Asked how he’d pay for it in the Oct. 14 debate, he said he hasn’t settled on a mechanism, and pointed to a sales tax increase as an idea “people float.”
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Rob Sand wants to ban local officials from signing data center NDAs: ‘Hogwash’
In the Oct. 14 Iowa gubernatorial debate, Democrat Rob Sand said local elected officials should not be allowed to sign nondisclosure agreements with companies like data centers that keep the public in the dark about who is building what.
