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The Lincoln Project Setting Their Sights On Joni Ernst In Final Month
A prominent political action committee of Republicans devoted to defeating President Donald Trump and his “enablers” said they’re looking with renewed focus at Sen. Joni Ernst’s race with 31 days until the election. The Lincoln Project, founded and run by right-leaning political strategists and figures who aim to hold “Trump and Trumpism accountable at the…
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Clinton Candidate Joma Short’s Past Homophobic Remarks
Iowa House District 98 candidate Joma Short in a past episode of her TV talk show made a number of homophobic and transphobic remarks. The Republican vying for the Clinton-based seat said in a 2017 episode of Nazirites Rising, her show which no longer airs but formerly ran in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, that homosexuality…
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Cedar Falls Candidate Ryan Howard’s Far-Right Views Examined
House District 60 candidate Ryan Howard is running to represent a suburban, blue-trending district on staunchly right, sometimes radical views. The Cedar Falls resident is vying for the Black Hawk County seat in a swing district with more Democrats currently registered to vote than Republicans. But Howard isn’t playing it safe—he’s been ardently clear on…
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Iowa Schools Without Masks Have 30-130% Higher COVID Rates
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is incentivizing school districts with looser quarantine guidelines if they increase mask-wearing, but remains adamant about not enforcing facial coverings in the state. During a press conference Tuesday morning, Reynolds and Iowa medical director Dr. Caitlin Pedati outlined recent Iowa Department of Public Health adjustments to quarantine guidelines which state that…
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Former Trump Field Staffers Detail Iowa Team’s Dysfunction
Shekinah Hollingsworth sat crying in her Ford Fiesta outside Cedar Rapids’ Coe College last October. The Iowa Trump Victory field organizer had just left the school, where she was meeting with a student on behalf of President Trump’s reelection campaign in the state before it was interrupted by a scathing phone call from State Director…
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Former Trump Field Staffers Detail Iowa Team’s Dysfunction
Shekinah Hollingsworth sat crying in her Ford Fiesta outside Cedar Rapids’ Coe College last October. The Iowa Trump Victory field organizer had just left the school, where she was meeting with a student on behalf of President Trump’s reelection campaign in the state before it was interrupted by a scathing phone call from State Director…
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Ernst: Very Unlikely New Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade
Sen. Joni Ernst said on Monday during an hour-long debate for the U.S. Senate race that she did not think President Donald Trump’s newest Supreme Court nominee would overturn abortion rights. The Republican’s proclamation that the reversal of Roe v. Wade is unlikely came after she announced her status as “adamantly pro-life” when moderator David…
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State Limits What Iowa Schools Can Share On COVID Info
Recently released state guidance warns school and local public health officials of unlawfully sharing COVID-19 positives publicly, raising concerns among Iowa’s teacher union, an independent data tracker and educators across the state about school districts’ transparency. The Iowa Department of Education and Department of Public Health wrote in a joint document on Sept. 15 that…
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A Substitute Teacher’s Death Shakes Knoxville, Where COVID Is Political
Since Sept. 1, Marion County, Iowa has seen its first three COVID-19 fatalities. County Public Health officials said during a recent press conference that two of those deaths were of people over 80-years-old with pre-existing conditions. But the other was Melinda Mutti, a 55-year-old Pella resident who was a substitute teacher in Knoxville and Pella…
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A Substitute Teacher’s Death Shakes Knoxville, Where COVID Is Political
Since Sept. 1, Marion County, Iowa has seen its first three COVID-19 fatalities. County Public Health officials said during a recent press conference that two of those deaths were of people over 80-years-old with pre-existing conditions. But the other was Melinda Mutti, a 55-year-old Pella resident who was a substitute teacher in Knoxville and Pella…
