Isabella Murray

On her last day of classes at Boise State University in 1998, Iowa House District 37 Democratic candidate Andrea Phillips rode her bike all the way up to campus before realizing she forgot her bike lock. “I just turned to the person next to me in front of the business building and said, excuse me,…

On her last day of classes at Boise State University in 1998, Iowa House District 37 Democratic candidate Andrea Phillips rode her bike all the way up to campus before realizing she forgot her bike lock. “I just turned to the person next to me in front of the business building and said, excuse me,…

Inside Pleasant Hill’s Berean Assembly of God, a nondenominational church next to a McDonald’s twenty minutes east of Des Moines, retired Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman asked a packed amphitheater in March 2018 if they were prepared to protect their neighbors from “the minions of hell.” “For the rest of your lives, you will be faced…

Iowa State Senator Julian Garrett wrote in a recent opinion piece that the Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t care about black lives because they don’t focus on “black-on-black” crime, and offered up his suggestion of which “blacks” in society should be held up as “role models.” The Indianola Republican published on Friday an op-ed titled…

Six hundred state employees working Iowa’s COVID-19 response were cut and two Test Iowa Sites closed this week while the state reported escalated coronavirus cases and COVID-related deaths. The Iowa National Guard on Tuesday merged three separate task forces staffed by 1,000 soldiers and airmen aiding the Iowa Department of Public Health during the pandemic,…

The 2020 resurrection of Eric Gjerde’s campaign for Iowa House seat 67 will pick up where it left off in 2018, the candidate said, but a win is in better reach. The Cedar Rapids special education teacher’s bid comes as Rep. Ashley Hinson vacated the Linn County seat in June, instead running for Rep. Abby…

The 2020 resurrection of Eric Gjerde’s campaign for Iowa House seat 67 will pick up where it left off in 2018, the candidate said, but a win is in better reach. The Cedar Rapids special education teacher’s bid comes as Rep. Ashley Hinson vacated the Linn County seat in June, instead running for Rep. Abby…

The 2020 resurrection of Eric Gjerde’s campaign for Iowa House seat 67 will pick up where it left off in 2018, the candidate said, but a win is in better reach. The Cedar Rapids special education teacher’s bid comes as Rep. Ashley Hinson vacated the Linn County seat in June, instead running for Rep. Abby…

In December 2016, Iowa Safe Schools executive director Nate Monson sent an email to Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton, with an invitation to grab a drink. The ask was a bit of an olive branch—the previous year was peppered with public clashes between the two after House Government Oversight Committee Chair Kaufmann called for an investigation…

Christina Bohannan, Iowa House District 85’s likely next representative, pledges to use her slot in the House serving a deep-blue district to speak up for progressive policies and “take back the majority.” The University of Iowa law professor pulled off a rare primary election victory over a sitting incumbent earlier this month, defeating 20-year incumbent…