At her weekly press conference on Tuesday, Gov. Kim Reynolds offered an explanation for why she called Iowa liberals “unhinged” during a speech last month. Her explanation, however, didn’t address what she actually said during that speech, and didn’t match the explanation her campaign spokesperson had already provided for the remark.
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‘I think we need leadership that represents everyone’: Angela Winnike wants to bring a new voice to the Iowa City Council
Ask Angela Winnike, a candidate for one of the two at-large city council seats, why she is running for the Iowa City Council and she talks about making the council a better reflection of the city’s population. “I think we live a community that’s really inclusive and open-minded, but I think we need leadership that represents everyone in our community,” Winnike told Little Village. “And that means people of all gender identities, all ages, all ethnic and cultural backgrounds and different economic backgrounds.”
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Sam Clovis: The Iowa connection to the arrests in the Trump/Russia investigation
Sam Clovis — the former rightwing radio host in Sioux City, who served a national co-chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — encouraged a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor to travel to Russia to get information from people connected to Russian government. According to his attorney, Clovis wasn’t encouraging collusion with the Russians, he was just being Iowa nice.
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Quiz: How well do you know your president?
How closely have you been paying attention during the past year? Take this quiz to determine your Trump IQ.
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Iowa Supreme Court stays new anti-abortion rules, but access to services remains a problem
Iowa won’t be immediately joining the 27 states that impose a waiting period on women seeking an abortion. Last week, the Iowa Supreme Court issued an order temporarily staying the enforcement of a 72-hour waiting period that was among the new restrictions on abortion signed into law by Gov. Brandstad in May. But that decision doesn’t meant exercising the right to choose isn’t already a challenge in Iowa.
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Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst help kill a rule protecting consumers from predatory banks and credit card companies
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst voted this week to kill a regulation that was widely considered to be a landmark piece of consumer protection. The regulation was created in July by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop banks, credit card companies and…
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Revised Ped Mall improvement plans highlight the history of Black Hawk Mini Park
History played a big role at the meeting on the future of Iowa City’s Ped Mall on Thursday night. At the first public meeting on the Pedestrian Mall Improvements Project in July, the focus was on engineering and structural improvements.
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New designs for the Ped Mall will be unveiled at a public meeting on Thursday
An update on plans for the improvements to Iowa City’s Ped Mall will be presented on Thursday evening at the Sheraton Hotel. The improvements are the next step in the Downtown and Pedestrian Mall Streetscape Plan that was approved by the city council in 2014.
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Comey tweets: Former FBI director James Comey makes news with a tweet from Iowa
Like the president who fired him, former FBI Director James Comey made news with a tweet this past weekend. Unlike Trump, Comey didn’t do it by attacking people or claiming credit for the work of others (the law declassifying the JFK assassination record was signed in 1992). Instead, Comey published a tweet on Sunday that finally confirmed his twitter handle is Reinhold Niebuhr (@FormerBu). It was a tweet from Iowa.
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Obscure change in federal regulations may have big impact on local TV news in Iowa, and make the news more pro-Trump
On Tuesday, the Federal Communication Commission voted to eliminate a 77 year-old rule intended to ensure TV and radio stations serve the needs of their local communities. The vote on the so-called “Main Studio Rule” followed party lines, with all three Republican commissioners voting in favor of killing it, and both Democrats voting to preserve it.
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‘I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation’: Monica Lewinsky will be speaking at the IMU tonight
Monica Lewinsky was 24 years old was she suddenly became internationally famous in January 1998. In a 2015 TED Talk, Lewinsky described what it was like when news broke that she, a White House intern, had been having an affair with President Bill Clinton.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds calls Iowa liberals ‘unhinged’
Speaking at a fundraiser on Saturday, Gov. Kim Reynolds said, “As we all know as we travel the state, the liberals are unhinged and they are out for us.” The remarks came at the end of Reynold’s Harvest Festival in Des Moines, her first public fundraiser since becoming governor.
