Zachary Oren Smith is your friendly neighborhood reporter. He leads Starting Line’s political coverage where he investigates corruption, housing affordability and the future of work. For nearly a ...

The new focus was almost immediately put to the test. Back-to-back explosions rock the Decatur plant Around 2:50 p.m. on April 20, 2023, Antonio McElrath clocked into work on the western half of the ...

Educational policy expert Josh Cowen breaks down the shortcomings of Iowa’s voucher program. Iowa Republican elected officials who supported the creation and implementation of the state’s ...

History Of Black Migration, Settlement In Waterloo When pulling up to the East Waterloo home that Black Hawk County supervisor Chris Schwartz shares with his partner, political organizer Logun Buckley ...

The final Iowa Caucus results are finally final: Pete Buttigieg has won (still). This evening, the Iowa Democratic Party released the results of the recount requested by Bernie Sanders and Pete ...

Remember the 2023 story of mobile home residents in Johnson County whose parks were bought by investment company Havenpark Communities, then had their services taken away while their lot rents were ...

With Iowa’s abortion ban in effect and the threat of a national abortion ban at the federal level, volunteers are using their free time to talk to voters about reproductive rights and how to protect ...

Vice President Kamala Harris got 42,448 votes in Scott County. Bohannan managed to get 44,866 votes. Not just outperforming Harris, but actually winning a majority of the Scott County’s vote. That ...

Check out a semi-pro Iowa baseball game this summer. There’s nothing better than catching a baseball game in the summertime. But if you’re only catching the minor league Iowa teams, you’re missing out ...

Iowa has committed nearly $180 million in taxpayer funds to support private school tuition in the 2024-25 school year, which is almost $50 million more than the initial Iowa Legislative Service Agency ...

Nearly a fourth of the Iowa Legislature benefits from farm subsidies, some to the tune of millions of dollars As the Iowa Senate debated earlier this year a bill to ban local governments from ...

Over 30,000 applications were approved for the second year of Iowa’s taxpayer-funded private school tuition vouchers, according to Gov. Kim Reynolds. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced that more than 30,000 ...