Derek Wulf, running mate of Republican candidate for governor Zach Lahn, is under investigation by the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, the Des Moines Register reported on Friday. The sheriff’s office “declined to comment on the nature of its investigation into Wulf,” the Register’s Tyler Jett wrote in his long, investigative story on Wulf’s legal […]
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‘I am in all of the paintings I do’: World-renowned portrait artist Rose Frantzen has an eye for capturing Iowans
Maquoketa artist Rose Frantzen was recently awarded one of the highest honors in portrait painting. Out of 2,200 submissions, Frantzen’s piece Last Light won the Grand Prize in the Portrait Society of America’s 2026 International Portrait Competition. When Frantzen accepted the award on April 11 in Atlanta, she described Last Light as “a love letter […]
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Immigrant Welcome Network celebrates three years of helping new arrivals find homes, jobs and community in Johnson County
The Immigrant Welcome Network of Johnson County (IWNJC) held its third-annual gala on Saturday in Coralville. Themed “Dreams without Borders,” the event surpassed its fundraising goal by $3,000, taking in $38,000 in donations to support its mission of helping newly arrived immigrants in the area get settled. The Unitarian Universalist Society Sanctuary was alive with […]
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‘These people are certifiable’: Ted Cruz complains of ‘communists and Islamists’ taking over at Hinson event in Clive
With hay bales lining the back of the stage, country music on the speakers and food from Jethro’s BBQ being served, Ashley Hinson welcomed donors to the Iowa Events Center in Clive on Saturday night for her big annual fundraiser, Ashley’s BBQ Bash. The three-term Republican congressmember is currently running for the U.S. Senate to […]
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A D.C. PAC Brenna Bird co-leads is planning to launch an ‘offensive barrage’ of ads on her behalf
The main PAC for Republican state attorneys general announced Tuesday it is launching a $7 million advertising campaign to boost candidates in 13 states, including Brenna Bird in Iowa. The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) said in a news release its “aggressive early offensive barrage” is “phase one of RAGA’s fall campaign and begins immediately […]
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Iowa’s largest population of Pacific Islanders are the Marshallese, ‘a very loving people’ displaced and sickened by U.S. nuclear testing
On May 23, government officials from the Republic of the Marshall Islands traveled 6,000 miles to commemorate their country’s Constitution Day in Dubuque. The Iowa city has gathered to mark the Marshallese holiday since 2005. “Today is more than a national celebration,” Isaac Zackhras, Vice Speaker of the Marshall Islands’ parliament told the crowd in […]
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Iowa HHS confirms more measles cases; first U.S. deaths from measles this year reported in Pennsylvania
“As of August 24, seventeen confirmed cases of measles have been identified in 2026, with evidence of person-to-person spread,” the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (Iowa HHS) reported Monday. That’s five more cases than Iowa HHS reported in its last update on the measles outbreak in the state on Aug. 16. The department […]
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Polls show Sand beating Lahn, Turek closing in on Hinson; Cook Political Report shifts their forecast in favor of Democrats
Republicans should be in an excellent position to win both the open seat for governor of Iowa and the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. Donald Trump carried the state easily in each of the last three presidential elections. In 2024, he won Iowa by 13.2 percentage points, the biggest margin of victory in a presidential election […]
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RFK Jr. visits Dubuque community health clinic facing major Trump budget cuts, as Iowa experiences a measles outbreak
“I love to visit places like Crescent, ’cause they do everything right,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters after touring Crescent Community Health Center in Dubuque on Wednesday. “From the very beginning, the focus was on removing barriers and ensuring access to care — regardless of income, insurance, or background,” […]
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Pete Hegseth campaigns for Nunn, uses slurs and says troops dying is the ‘cost’ of fighting ‘radical Islamist crazies’ at Iowa State Fair
“It’s great to be in Iowa at the Iowa State Fair, because I grew up at the Minnesota State Fair,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said after taking the stage at JR’s Southpork Ranch on Monday. “Every single year my parents took me to the Minnesota State Fair.” There was some grumbling from the crowd […]
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Iowa Democrats fail to regain first-in-the-nation status; new primary calendar is a ‘middle finger’ to Trump and Republicans, other Dems celebrate
“Iowa is the center of the political universe right now,” Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart said confidently on Saturday. “Energy, excitement and enthusiasm exists all across our state.” It’s the sort of statement almost guaranteed to trigger applause at a meeting of Iowa Democrats, but Hart was speaking at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) […]
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Maria Bamford offers a brief Bible study ahead of her two Iowa shows
Maria Bamford is a bit of a lightning bug. Not that she’s small in any way. She has flown through decades of the dark, between her own struggles with mental illness, the rigors of Hollywood and whatever perils modern life throws her way. How she flies is hilarious, but how she lands is divine. As […]
