Guest Post

Guest op-ed from Jonathan Grieder, a Waterloo City Councilmember Local government is key and fundamental to our system of government here in Iowa. In fact, it’s so important that in 1968 Iowa voters codified home rule into the Iowa Constitution. Local city councils, school boards, and county boards of supervisors were given their power through…

Guest op-ed from Jonathan Grieder, a Waterloo City Councilmember Local government is key and fundamental to our system of government here in Iowa. In fact, it’s so important that in 1968 Iowa voters codified home rule into the Iowa Constitution. Local city councils, school boards, and county boards of supervisors were given their power through…

Guest op-ed from Joy Newcom The men and women elected to lead Iowa’s cities face daunting leadership decisions tied to their COVID-19 responses. This is an unprecedented time –– a time made unpredictable by an unruly virus but also by uncommon, even unstable, state and federal leadership. For example, officials contradict one another during the…

Guest op-ed from Joy Newcom The men and women elected to lead Iowa’s cities face daunting leadership decisions tied to their COVID-19 responses. This is an unprecedented time –– a time made unpredictable by an unruly virus but also by uncommon, even unstable, state and federal leadership. For example, officials contradict one another during the…

Guest op-ed from Ellie Miglin, a youth activist, and president of the Roosevelt High School Democrats Youth activism is powerful because of how it highlights what a small group of people can do, often without any previous political, social or financial infrastructure to back them up. It was the result of student activism which brought…

Guest op-ed from Ellie Miglin, a youth activist, and president of the Roosevelt High School Democrats Youth activism is powerful because of how it highlights what a small group of people can do, often without any previous political, social or financial infrastructure to back them up. It was the result of student activism which brought…

In July of 2019, the United States entered the longest period of time without an increase in the federal minimum wage since its creation in 1938; every day since has set a new record. For Iowa, that pause in wage growth has been even longer. The state, once a leader in workers’ rights and fair…

Amid my wife’s cancer battle, I only had a short window of peace each morning between the time I woke up and remembering what my family was going through. Sometimes I was lucky and wouldn’t remember until I got halfway to the bathroom before it hit my heart as if I had stepped on a…

For most of my life, I’ve called Iowa home. I proudly attended Iowa public schools, and after four years out of state getting my undergraduate degree, I returned to Iowa to work as an RN, got married, and decided to raise my family here. For my daughters, like all children in America, active shooter drills…

For most of my life, I’ve called Iowa home. I proudly attended Iowa public schools, and after four years out of state getting my undergraduate degree, I returned to Iowa to work as an RN, got married, and decided to raise my family here. For my daughters, like all children in America, active shooter drills…