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Iowa411 News Briefs for December 16, 2025
Summary Iowa411’s December 16, 2025, briefs examine rural economic fallout from the scheduled...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 15, 2025
Summary Iowa411 News Briefs for December 15, 2025, cover the identification of Sgt. Nate Howard of...
Editorial: Ideology Disguises Itself as Academic Reform
Forced Ideology Has No Place on Iowa Universities On December 9, the ultra-conservative Manhattan...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 14, 2025
Summary Two Iowa National Guard members were killed in a Syria ambush blamed on ISIS, marking the...
How an Iowa Newspaper Fanned the Flames of Misinformation
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Becomes a Link in Misinformation Chain In a recent guest editorial...
The Skinny
Iowa DOGE: From Ideological Efficiency to Real Reform?
Origins and Intent: The “Musk–Trump DOGE” Legacy The Iowa DOGE task force borrows both the name and inspiration from the...
Today: Iowans Stand for Democracy
March to defend democracy, fairness, and community values Marchers in Iowa and across the nation will gather peacefully...
The Compact for Control: Iowa, Trump, and the Golden Triad
Iowa Lawmakers Push Project 2025 and Christian Nationalism Control As Iowa lawmakers urge the Board of Regents to adopt...
Crypto ATMs: The New Getaway Vehicle for Scammers
How an Iowan Got Caught in the Middle Source: CNN Interactive: “Crypto Crime Scene” (October 14, 2025) Across the U.S.,...
Iowa Counties Take Eminent Domain Fight to the Supreme Court
Story and Shelby Counties challenge federal limits on local pipeline safety authority The Des Moines Register reports that...
Carbon Capture in Iowa
The New Carbon Economy Across the heartland, carbon capture and storage — often called CCS or CCUS — has become the next...
Iowa’s Soybean Crisis
Farmer Brown - Déjà vu all over againRounds of Tariffs Have Decimated Iowa Soybean Export Markets For Iowa’s soybean...