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Cindy Axne Touts USMCA Passage, Presses Senate In Guthrie Center
Iowa Rep. Cindy Axne faced constituents in one of the reddest parts of her district Saturday afternoon, just two days after the U.S. House passed the new trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada and three days after the impeachment vote. “I would like to make one thing perfectly clear,” Axne told the…
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Iowa Musical To Satirize 2020 Caucus, Candidates
If you’ve always wanted to see a dancing Bernie Sanders singing along to tunes from the Broadway musical ‘A Chorus Line,’ then the Iowa Stage Theatre Company has just the production for you. Writer Robert John Ford will premiere his musical ‘Adore Us! Line’ on Jan. 24, 2019. It features actors who will play all…
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Axne, Finkenauer Push Bipartisan Measures As Impeachment Vote Looms
Iowa representatives Cindy Axne and Abby Finkenauer have had a busy week in D.C., and it’s only Tuesday. Most of Washington is focused on whether the House of Representatives will vote to approve two articles of impeachment expected to be brought Wednesday against President Donald Trump. Axne, Finkenauer and 2nd District Congressman Dave Loebsack announced…
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South Central Iowa Federation Of Labor Donates 6,500+ Meals
South Central Iowa Federation of Labor members volunteered to fill around 325 baskets of food, equal to about 6,500 individual meals, at the United Auto Workers Local 450 hall in Des Moines Friday morning. The food will be distributed to United Way agencies such as Creative Visions, Visiting Nurses and EveryStep Hospice. They will also…
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Basketball, Bowling And A Bus Tour With Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang recently kicked off his 23rd trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate with great news. He had made the December debate stage. “Just an hour ago, I became the seventh person to qualify for the December debates,” said Yang, a New York entrepreneur, Tuesday evening in Des Moines before jumping on his brand…
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To A Union Audience, Klobuchar Pitches Plan For 21st-Century Jobs
Sen. Amy Klobuchar shared the details of her newly released plan for the future of work Thursday afternoon at the Machinists Union Lodge in Des Moines. Klobuchar spoke for nearly an hour with a table of Iowans about the new challenges workers and businesses face in a modern globalized economy. Panelists on the roundtable included Randy…
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Friends And Allies Vouch For Biden’s Character On Bus Tour Across Iowa
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s eight-day ‘No Malarkey’ bus tour across Iowa isn’t full of shenanigans. In fact, it’s really quite serious. Biden spent the first five days of the 660-mile tour discussing a variety of weighty topics with voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state including an idea he’s been repeating all year. He wants…
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One Iowa Union’s Plans To Give Back This Holiday Season
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 55 has made Christmas wishes come true for dozens of Iowa families throughout the last five years. Ever since union membership voted to create the Helpful Elves program, Local 55, partnering with the Local 145, the Local 1634, the Local 204, the Liberty Line Builders, RS Electric Utility…
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Teamsters Prez Says Dems “Better Have A Message For Us” At Iowa Forum
The President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James Hoffa, is expecting more than 700 union members from across the nation to attend the Teamsters forum in Cedar Rapids Saturday, Dec. 7. “I don’t know where we’re going to put them all. We’ll put them outside. We’ll put a TV outside,” Hoffa said in an…
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Abby Finkenauer Puts National Spotlight On Iowa Worker Safety
Rep. Abby Finkenauer took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives just before the entire Iowa Democratic delegation voted with a bipartisan majority to pass workplace safety legislation last week. Iowa’s Steve King voted against the “Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act,” which passed the House 251-158. Finkenauer told a…
