NRA-Backed Iowa Congress Members Offer Thoughts and Prayers to Las Vegas Victims

The five GOP members of Iowa's congressional delegation have consistently opposed proposals to strengthen regulations against guns including ones for stronger background checks. They...

Weekly News Roundup: GOPers Criticize Anthem Protests, Pate Often Missed Key Meetings, Fitzgerald Questions...

Iowa Republicans, Kirk Ferentz criticize National Anthem protests In response to President Trump’s recent comments that NFL players who kneel in protest of systemic racism...

Assad-Sympathizing Tulsi Gabbard to Headline Central Iowa Democrats’ Fall BBQ

Updated 10/1 Among the headliners scheduled for an Oct. 15 barbecue fundraiser organized by central Iowa Democrats is Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman liked by...

Grassley Claims He Knows Nothing of Roy Moore, Notorious Theocrat Turned Senate Candidate

Update: Since making his comments to Politico, Grassley has called for Moore to end his campaign. Original post: After Roy Moore, the controversial former chief...

Photos: Paul Pate Allows Masked Men from Out of State to Register to Vote

Today is National Voter Registration Day, which is recognized on the fourth Tuesday of September as part of the broader National Voter Registration Month....

Details of Rastetter’s Private Email Use, Secret Ames Meetings for Harreld Hire Revealed

Five past and present members of the Iowa Board of Regents, including former president Bruce Rastetter, detailed in depositions how they used private email...

Weekly News Roundup: Obamacare Repeal, McCain Slams Grassley on Russia, Pate Says Iowa Thwarted...

Grassley: Campaign promise to repeal Obamacare outweighs substance of Graham-Cassidy bill: During a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley made an eyebrow-raising...

In Dishonest Campaign Pitch, Pate Says His Voter ID Law Made “George Soros Howl”

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is running for re-election in 2018 and he's making his successful push earlier this year to pass voter...

Ames Pediatrician John Paschen Fourth Dem to Enter Primary to Face Steve King

John Paschen, an Ames pediatrician who's well known locally, on Monday announced that he plans to enter the increasingly crowded Democratic primary to challenge...

Climate Super-PAC Calls USDA Nominee Clovis a “Bush-League Rush Limbaugh Clone”

In an email Monday, Climate Hawks Vote, a super-PAC based in Agoura Hills, California, drew attention to a letter Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, sent...
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