AFSCME President: Members Organizing For Clinton To Lift Wages For All
Union members have a lot at stake in the 2016 elections, public employee workers top among them. To fight back against Republicans’ efforts to roll... Read more.
Ben And Jerry Visit Iowa, Explain “Bernie’s Yearning” Ice Cream Flavor
It’s that time in the Iowa Caucus campaign where you can easily run into a celebrity, business leader or famous political figure pretty much anywhere... Read more.
Iowa Republicans Wave White Flag Of Surrender To Trump
A sense of fatalism has crept into the leadership of Iowa Republicans. Faced with the very real possibility that Donald Trump could be Republicans’ standa... Read more.
Bernie Sanders Just Passed His 50,000 Iowa Crowd Turnout Mark
Bernie Sanders has talked to a whole lot of people in Iowa. On Sunday he passed the big milestone of combined Iowa turnouts of 50,000.... Read more.
Cecile Richards: With Hillary Clinton, No Better Chance Than Now For Women’s Health
Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards is traveling around Iowa this weekend in support of Hillary Clinton, who the Planned Parenthood Action Fund... Read more.
Regret Over 2008 Fuels Hillary Volunteers To Win Clinton County
Clinton County was not Clinton country in 2008. The eastern Iowa working-class county situated on the Mississippi River broke for neighbor-state Senator Barack ... Read more.
Finkenauer Friday: The First One!
The 2016 Iowa Legislative Session began on January 11th and with that, Iowa Starting Line has teamed up with State Representative Abby Finkenauer (D- Dubuque)... Read more.
Labor Deploys Ground Forces To Iowa For Hillary
About 100 Ironworkers from central Iowa gathered at the Local 67 headquarters on the northeast side of Des Moines a few cold weekends ago to... Read more.
Cruz Gets Caught In The Branstad-Vander Plaats GOP Civil War
Ted Cruz has made a lot of enemies in Iowa. Chief among them is the ethanol industry. Now several of Cruz’s important Iowa allies may... Read more.
O’Malley’s 2nd Choicers Could Swing The Caucus – Where Are They Going?
Hillary Clinton went in to caucus night in 2008 in 2nd place. Nearly every entrance poll released showed her ahead of John Edwards, though still... Read more.