67 stories · Across Iowa

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Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. This essay first appeared on Substack. Last week the United States and its people soberly remembered the stunning terrorist attacks that weaponized jetliners to kill thousands of people in the American homeland on September 11, 2001. […]

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Nunn, Miller-Meeks break with party on Trump's war powers in Iran iowapublicradio.org

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Two officers from the Iowa City Police Department fired their guns at a person reportedly holding a knife early Tuesday evening, striking and killing the subject. The incident occurred on the street in the 600 block of Southgate Avenue. The officers arrived at the scene at “approximately 5:36 p.m.” in response to “a report of a […]

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For John Cameron Mitchell, the writer, director and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, punk rock has to be in the moment. Currently on tour for the film’s 25th anniversary, Mitchell will stop in Iowa City on Sept. 23 and 24 for a musical performance as part of Hancher’s Infinite Dream Festival, as well […]

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“I want to start with something that I think is common sense,” Rob Sand told the more than 950 people gathered in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) on Monday night. “Most people know it, but they don’t hear a lot of people who are running for office say it. I think […]

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Des Moines City Council approves $11.5M budget cut, reducing staff and services iowapublicradio.org

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This comic was originally published in Little Village’s September 2026 issue.

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Tiffany Brower is a survivor. And that made her damn near destined for Futurama, a show that has come back from cancellation two times over. Brower both worked on the sci-fi animated show on it's Comedy Central run and in it's current incarnation with Hulu, where she serves as associate producer.

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Nearly five years ago, Chase Johnson was cured of breast cancer — but not of the profound anxiety that it would return. When Johnson was originally diagnosed in 2021, the resident of Cary, North Carolina, was only 31 — nearly a decade away from the age at which regular mammograms are recommended — and she […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections. The unsigned, one-paragraph order upheld a Massachusetts federal court’s injunction on a U.S. Postal Service rule until after Nov. 3 and did not decide whether […]

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a directive on Monday to revoke greenhouse gas emission limits for coal and natural gas-fired power plants. The decision repeals a 2024 Biden administration policy that targeted emissions from nearly all energy facilities not powered by wind, solar, or water. This action marks a significant reversal of federal climate mandates as the Trump administration shifts away from previous carbon reduction requirements.

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DVIP/RVAP is marking its 47th anniversary this week with a fundraiser at Big Grove Brewery & Taproom in Iowa City. The three-hour “Birthday Bingo Bash” is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. “It is events like this that not only raise funds for our work but also allow the community to show survivors […]

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Everything is crumbling, but David Huckfelt, a Midwestern folk musician and activist, is putting out a new album, just eight months after the last one — a scoop he shared with Little Village.

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By Paul Deaton, Solon I visited the current Johnson County Jail soon after it opened in 1981. I remember saying to myself, “My God! They made it too small!” The current board of supervisors approved a referendum for the November ballot to build a new jail and sheriff’s office. I support it. Opinions on the […]

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This comic was originally published in Little Village’s September 2026 issue.

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We catch up with the three members of Salt Fox — the masterminds behind Lost Woods, a visionary music festival returning to the Cedar Falls forest this September — during a typically busy day. Andy Fuchtman (guitarist) is en route to the mechanic. Michael Rogers (vocals) and Jacob Pauli (synths and beats) are hanging out […]

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Nick Covington is an Iowa parent who taught high school social studies for ten years. The culture war battles we fight over our public schools are fundamentally disagreements about American values: what does it mean to be an American, and in whose image do we build our public schools? “When Americans start fighting over their […]

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Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes openness and transparency in Iowa’s state and local governments. He can be reached at DMRevans2810@gmail.com. This essay first appeared on his Substack newsletter, Stray Thoughts. You would think a school district readily knows its A-B-C’s. Not the Des Moines […]

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Jay Brown is a retired physician in Ames. The enemy of authoritarianism is community. Our country needs more community. Now there’s a simple way to resurrect childhood friendships in the battle against President Donald Trump and his efforts to ruin our beloved country. Hallways.vote is a free website that uses public voter and public donation data […]

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Sinners & Saints by Cedar County Cobras There’s a moment in Cedar County Cobras’ “Bessie Smith’s Last Ride” when nearly a century of American history collapses into a few verses. The song takes as its starting point Smith’s death following a car accident on Highway 61 near Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1937, a tragedy long surrounded […]