Des Moines CityView reported today that Donald Trump is founding fraternity houses at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. Written by Doug Burns, a “fourth-generation” newsperson and the co-owner of Carroll, Iowa’s Daily Times Herald, the article is an April Fools’ Day prank. “Two key features of the Trump Fraternity: a strict no-dating-fellow-students […]
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Caucus wrap: WTH happened last night?
How did your candidate(s) do last night? Since Martin O’Malley withdrew from the race, his backers across the country must now decide how to realign themselves, but the rest of us are still following a two- or three-person race. A record-breaking Republican turnout may have boosted Ted Cruz, who found his ground game in Iowa. […]
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Happening now: Guster is playing a surprise set at Clinton & College Streets
Indie rock band Guster is playing a surprise set this afternoon in front of the Bernie Sanders table at Clinton and College streets today, Feb. 1 at 3:30 p.m. The band is currently on tour, traveling between shows in Chicago and Kansas City, and decided to make an impromptu stop in Iowa City, according to […]
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Update: members of Vampire Weekend and more to perform, present Bernie Sanders in Iowa City
Students for Bernie Concert The Field House — Saturday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. Update: Killer Mike has been removed from the list of performers for the Students for Bernie Concert due to a death in the family. Senator Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Headquarters announced late last night that members of the indie pop group Vampire […]
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Sanders rallies young crowd in Grinnell
Bernie Sanders delivered one of his final appeals to Iowa voters yesterday in a Grinnell College gymnasium filled with over 1,200 supporters. Speaking just a couple hours before a town hall forum in Des Moines, he did not mention by name his Democratic caucus rivals Hillary Clinton or Martin O’Malley. Instead, he focused his speech […]
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Trump takes credit for Sanders’ Iowa surge
Donald Trump told a packed house in the Muscatine High School gymnasium that “Bernie Sanders is surging” because of the billionaire’s attacks on Hillary Clinton. Some polls show Sanders edging out Clinton in Iowa. “I was the best thing that ever happened to Bernie Sanders because my attack on Hillary, all of a sudden she […]
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Clinton on Sanders’ surge: ‘I’m not nervous at all’
Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday morning that she’s “not nervous” about the recent gains by her opponent in Iowa. She was asked on NBC’s Today show about Bernie Sanders’ surge as indicated by several recent polls. “I’m working hard, and I intend to keep working as hard as I can until the last vote or […]
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New poll shows Sanders ahead of Clinton in Iowa
With less than a month until the Iowa Caucuses, a poll released Monday by the American Research Group (ARG) shows Sen. Bernie Sanders edging out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by three points in Iowa. ARG interviewed 400 Iowans by telephone from Jan. 6-10 to complete the survey, which includes a five percent margin […]
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Jane Sanders to host meet and greet in IC
Potential First Lady Jane Sanders, the wife of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, will be in Iowa City today to meet with caucus-goers who are feeling the Bern. The meeting, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. today at the Iowa City headquarters of the Sanders’ campaign, at 702 South Gilbert St. The event is one of many […]
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Lena Dunham to campaign in Iowa City on behalf of Hillary Clinton
Actress and writer Lena Dunham, star of HBO’s Girls, will campaign for Hillary Clinton in Des Moines and Iowa City on Jan. 9, according to a report published today by the Des Moines Register. Details about when and where Dunham will appear are still TBA. Dunham has remained a vocal Clinton supporter throughout the nomination […]
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Watch: Little Village’s Interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders
In early September Little Village correspondent Stacey Walker sat down with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the so-called “dark horse” and “underdog” of the Democratic presidential primaries. Here, Walker and Sanders discuss the need for more women in positions of legislatie power, the Black Lives Matter movement, the de-militarization of both state and local police and […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders says peace in Palestine and Israel starts with economic aide
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I have a magical solution that has eluded every president,” Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said when asked about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a recent interview with Little Village. Outside forces have muddied the myriad issues for decades, says the Democratic presidential candidate. “Our goal should […]
