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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 ...

I could hardly see. My vision was blurry—I felt like I was looking through a dark tunnel. I couldn’t talk and my husband had to almost carry me as I stumbled from the car into the county hospital ER.

The US Senate is currently deciding whether to approve new funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection ...

A Utah-based private equity firm is slowly selling off its Iowa mobile home parks after years of resident complaints. In one Iowa City park that Havenpark Communities still owns, residents report ...

Upcoming layoffs, Jan. 22-Feb. 20, 2026: All information taken from Iowa Workforce Development’s WARN Act website. Read WARN Act and Iowa WARN Act criteria here. Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's ...

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 ...

Iowa politicians are sharply divided after the Trump administration used military force over the weekend to bomb Venezuela and abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, flying them to ...

US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the Republican congresswoman for Iowa’s 1st District, recently changed her voter registration to Iowa’s 3rd—despite still representing and running for reelection in ...

All information taken from Iowa Workforce Development’s WARN Act website. Read WARN Act and Iowa WARN Act criteria here. Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the weekly ...

Did you detassel corn as a teenager? That quintessential Iowa teen job is increasingly being outsourced by the seed companies to migrant laborers instead, according to Iowa Workforce Development data.

At a Monday town hall in Keosauqua, US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) told constituents she supports the release of the Epstein files. She said in a July statement that she supports President ...