U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley stumped for Iowa Republican candidates in Iowa Wednesday morning and urged members of the party to amplify their voices on social media to encourage the state’s dominant registered base to vote in November. Grassley, speaking at the Westside Conservative Club, said if there are Republicans who feel Iowa’s current all-conservative delegation […]
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Where to go and what to know to vote early in the Nov. 3 election
Early voting in the Nov. 3 election is now underway. County auditors’ offices have started mailing out absentee ballots requested by voters and are opening their doors for early in-person voting. Early in-person voting will run through Monday, Nov. 2, the day before the election, and all mail-in absentee ballots must be received in the […]
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Rob Sand discusses SNAP cuts, food insecurity and improving the rural economy at Coralville food pantry
In April 2022, the Coralville Community Food Pantry (CCFP) broke ground on a new building, on a site donated by the Coralville United Methodist Church. At 5,000 square feet, the pantry’s new home next to the church was twice the size of the building it was then located in. At the groundbreaking ceremony, CCFP Executive […]
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First-time candidate Chris Jones is cutting through the cropaganda on a mission to fire Iowa’s ‘secretary of agribusiness’
There are 36 million acres in Iowa, and 30 million are devoted to agriculture. Of those, 25 million are planted with corn and soybeans. “You have only two species of plants on 70 percent of our land,” Chris Jones told the packed meeting room at Iowa Lakes Community College in Emmetsburg on the evening of […]
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‘This is the corruption we have to address’: Turek, Hinson discuss attack ads, voting records and Iran war in first Senate debate
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson and Iowa Rep. Josh Turek spoke about their track records as lawmakers as they met for their first U.S. Senate debate Wednesday, discussing their previous votes — and planned actions if elected — to address rising costs for Iowans. Hinson, a Republican representing Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, and Turek, a Democrat […]
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Worth a Rewatch: ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale masterpiece, is back in theaters for its 20th anniversary
Guillermo del Toro’s dark fable Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this October in cinemas across the United States and Canada. Del Toro’s films are inhabited with monsters — supernatural creatures brought to life with award-winning prosthetics and practical effects, and the scarier kind that look like you and me. “Pan’s Labyrinth is […]
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Eat like a John Waters character
Not every food scene Waters filmed is as unspeakable as Divine’s final bite in Pink Flamingos. From Mr. Pinky’s eclairs in Hairspray to the pizza aroma Polyester audiences inhaled via Odorama scratch-and-sniff cards (in between the scents of glue and gasoline), Dreamland joints occasionally make the stomach rumble amid all the churning. Here are some […]
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Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law allowing $1.4 billion in tax incentives — roughly $777,000 per job — for steel mill project
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Friday a measure changing a state’s economic development program that could provide nearly $1.4 billion in tax incentives for a $15 billion steel mill project planned in southeast Iowa. “Today, we advance the most consequential economic development project ever to come to our state,” Reynolds said. The governor signed […]
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Hate behind opposition to school desegregation remains today, say civil rights icons who faced it
Carmen Jungbluth drove from Boone to eastern Iowa on Thursday to hear two pioneers of school desegregation from the American South speak to a crowd of 120 rapt audience members in the lead-off event to a three-day tour of Iowa dedicated to barrier-breaking events that civil rights icons Dr. Leona Tate and Carlotta Walls LaNier […]
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Poll: Most Iowans view corporate ag unfavorably; water quality is a make-or-break issue for 1 in 4 voters
A new poll from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future (CLF) asks about the importance of water quality to Iowa voters this year. The “Iowa Water Quality Survey” looks at more than how the issue may influence voting behavior this November, finding, among other things, that 26 percent of its respondents say there’s […]
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Bruce Hornsby reflects on the way it was, “The Way It Is,” touring with the Dead, and entering the best stage of his career
I first heard Bruce Hornsby when I was 10 years old, back when I would spend hours on end hanging around my father’s doomed retail store because he couldn’t afford a babysitter. His small leather goods business boomed in the early half of the 1970s, but by the turn of the new decade, the belts and purses he […]
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Letter to the editor: Ashley Hinson’s attempt to sound like a peacemaker is a farce
By Ed Flaherty, Iowa City Representative Ashley Hinson, candidate for U.S. Senate, on Sept. 16 stated that “I want this war to end — I believe President Trump should immediately bring this war to a successful end….” This is just after she voted “no” on Sept. 15 on a resolution to stop the war. That was the sixth time […]
