Catch up on the biggest headlines, videos and photos published by Little Village in the past week.
From eating at Hamburg Inn to digging into the issues: Beto O’Rourke makes his first campaign stop in Iowa City
Published Monday, April 8
The music that blasted through the second-floor ballroom at the Iowa Memorial Union on Sunday was the first indication Beto O’Rourke was incorporating local color into his first campaign stop in Iowa City since declaring his candidacy last month. Instead of his standard walk-up music, “Clampdown” by The Clash, the former Texas congressman bounded onto the stage in the middle of the ballroom to a Hawkeye favorite, “Back in Black.” Continue reading…
Julián Castro, 2020 presidential candidate, will be at The Mill Sunday for a ‘Political Party Live’ interview
Published Tuesday, April 9
Former San Antonio mayor and current presidential candidate Julián Castro will sit down for an interview on the Political Party Live podcast recording live at The Mill on Sunday at 7 p.m. Castro is the fourth 2020 Democratic candidate to be interviewed by Political Party Live hosts Stacey Walker and Simeon Talley. Continue reading…
Grassley on Trump’s tax returns: ‘I don’t want to see them’
Published Wednesday, April 10
During a Monday morning appearance on Fox News, Sen. Chuck Grassley was asked about the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee (or as the Fox host put it, “the Democrats”) requesting copies of President Trump’s tax returns from the IRS.
Grassley began his reply by pointing out that as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, he is also entitled to request the president’s tax returns. But he won’t.
“I don’t want to see them,” Grassley said. “I’m not going to request them.” Continue reading…
Kamala Harris in Iowa City: ‘Our fight is born out of what we know can be, unburdened by what has been’
Published Thursday, April 11
What wasn’t said at Sen. Kamala Harris’ town hall-style campaign event at the Iowa Memorial Union on Wednesday night was almost as interesting as what the 2020 presidential candidate did say. She never mentioned Donald Trump’s name or used the word “Republican.”
But the California Democrat wasn’t ignoring the impact of Trump’s actions or Republican policies. Continue reading…
Sen. Kamala Harris at the Iowa Memorial Union
Sen. Kamala Harris brought her 2020 presidential campaign to Iowa City on Wednesday night for a town hall-style event.“[W]e’re at an inflection point in the history of our country… a moment in time that is requiring us each as individuals, and collectively, to look in a mirror and ask a question… ‘Who are we?’” the California Democrat told the audience at the Iowa Memorial Union.
Posted by Little Village Mag on Thursday, April 11, 2019
Cycle for a ‘century’ at the first Trueblood 100 Family Bike Ride
Published Friday, April 12
Casual bike riders and serious cyclists will have a new way to celebrate National Bike Month in Iowa City with the inaugural Trueblood 100 Family Bike Ride on Sunday, May 12. The event, announced by the Iowa City Department of Parks and Recreation on Friday, will have riders in teams of two or more pedaling along the trail around Sand Lake at the Terry Trueblood Recreation Area. Continue reading…
Dave Loebsack will not run for reelection in 2020
Published Friday, April 12
Rep. Dave Loebsack announced on Friday that he will not run for reelection in 2020.
“I have enjoyed beyond my expectations serving the people of Iowa’s Second District for the past 13 years,” the Iowa City Democrat said in a statement.
Loebsack was first elected to Congress in 2006, when he defeated Jim Leach, a Republican who had served in the House of Representatives since 1977. Continue reading…
Current issue: Little Village issue 261
- How a divorce helped kick-start marriage equality in Iowa
- The BarbouRoskes, plaintiffs in Varnum v. Brien, reflect on Iowa’s fight for marriage equality
- ‘It rocked my world’: Catching up with the Grays, one of the first lesbian couples married in Iowa
- Jaime Hernandez reflects on 38 years of his influential ‘Love & Rockets’ comics series
- Guerilla Toss on their chaotic origin story and psychedelic new album, ahead of Mission Creek
- Stephanie Burt prepares to see her poetry in motion with Mission Creek’s visual poetry synthesizer
- En Español: Growing Beno’s Flowers
- Futile Wrath — April 3, 2019
- This Modern World — April 3, 2019
- Stress Fractures — “Unnatural Selection”
- Brock About Town: Spring Break in Cedar Rapids
- The Broccoli Beat: What’s in a bud?
- Dear Kiki: I feel betrayed by my husband, and I can’t let it go
- Album Review: Elizabeth Moen — A Million Miles Away
- Album Review: The Only Ion — Roses
- Book Review: ‘You or a Loved One’ by Gabriel Houck
- Book Review: ‘Spectacle’ by Susan Steinberg
- Astrology forecast — April 3-16, 2019
Now on stands: Bread & Butter 2019
