Have an event to add? Email Amie Rivers, [email protected] with details (please send details at least one week before the event). Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the ...

A federal judge has criticized what he calls the “indefensible” actions of federal immigration enforcement agents in Iowa, ruling they illegally detained a man in the Muscatine County Jail and then ...

Nathan Sage dropped out of the Democratic primary for Iowa’s US Senate race, endorsing Josh Turek. This reshapes the 2026 Democratic primary as Turek and Zach Wahls duke it out to take on Republican ...

Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line’s newsletter editor. She writes the weekly Worker’s Almanac edition of Iowa Starting Line, featuring a roundup of the worker news you need to know. Previously, she ...

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 ...

Legislators have been happy to prosecute abortion providers in the past. But their new move is to target Iowans who get abortions themselves, classifying the procedure as a homicide. Iowa Republicans ...

Elite athletes with Iowa ties have competed in the Olympics and Paralympics for decades. Here are a few you should know. Hometown pride is in abundance during this year’s Winter Olympic and Winter ...

Black history is important for everyone to learn about. Check out these eight places in Iowa where you can learn something new, from monuments to museums. This is just one of the many important and ...

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 ...

Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the weekly Worker’s Almanac edition of Iowa Starting Line, featuring a roundup of the worker news you need to know. Previously, she ...

Meatpacking has been one of Iowa’s biggest, most successful industries for over a hundred years. It became more prominent during the 1920s and into the 1940s due to profitable wartime contracts, but ...

Have you heard about the Iowa town that became a utopia for Black workers over a hundred years ago? (It’s one of my favorite Black History Month stories.) @iowastartinglineDuring the height of Jim ...