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How an Iowa Newspaper Fanned the Flames of Misinformation
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Becomes a Link in Misinformation Chain In a recent guest editorial...
School Vouchers in Iowa
In recent years, one of the most significant and controversial shifts in Iowa’s education system...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 13, 2025
Summary Republicans in Washington are accelerating a pattern. They advance bills they know cannot...
The Skinny
Iowa411 News Briefs for November 1, 2025
Farmers Welcome Soybean Deal, But Say It’s Only a Start Iowa farmers cautiously welcomed China’s promise to buy 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually for the next three years, restoring pre–trade war levels of demand. While producers are relieved, many say...
More sea killings, ACA enrollment, SNAP, and shutdown impact
U.S. Strike Sinks Another “Drug Boat,” Killing Four – Hegseth Defends Escalation Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the U.S. military destroyed another boat allegedly carrying narcotics in the eastern Pacific, killing all four aboard – the 14th strike since...
What the Government Shutdown Is Really About
It’s Not Politics. It’s About Who Counts and Who Gets Left Behind. Right now, Washington isn’t just arguing over budgets and line items. They’re arguing over who matters. Democrats are asking for two things to end the shutdown: Restore the $1 trillion cut from...
Iowa’s Wind Energy: When Federal Policy Defeats Local Promise
This article examines the economic and energy-grid consequences of Trump-era clean-energy rollbacks in Iowa. It explains how canceling Inflation Reduction Act reimbursements and wind-energy incentives has hurt farmers, suppliers, and the state economy while increasing...
Iowa’s “Biggest Tax Cut Ever” – The Hard Truth Behind the Hype
Iowa Representatives and Senators Try to Sell their Big Beautiful Tax Cuts When Iowa’s Congressional delegation (both House and Senate Republicans) rolled out their sales pitches for the new "Big Beautiful Law" mega tax-and-budget package, you couldn’t help but hear...