Bakken Pipeline Protester Using Climate Justification Defense Found Guilty of Trespassing
Kriss Wells, one of 30 people arrested last August during a Boone County protest against the Dakota Access pipeline and the first in Iowa...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Deputy’s Islamophobic Facebook Posts
On Tuesday, an Iowa activist pointed Facebook followers to a pair of recent posts by Dan Charleston, a controversial deputy sergeant in the Polk...
Rich Leopold Ends Bid for Governor, Citing Financial, Self-Promotion Woes
Former Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Rich Leopold, the first Democrat to enter the 2018 race for governor, announced today that he is...
First Major Bakken Pipeline Protest Trial in Iowa to Begin Today
This morning, the first major Bakken pipeline protest trial begins in Iowa for Kriss Wells, who was one of about 30 arrested in a...
Steve King Suggests Kim Weaver Is Lying About Death Threats
On Sunday afternoon, responding to the news last evening that Democrat Kim Weaver decided to drop out of the 4th Congressional District race against...
Democratic Gubernatorial Hopefuls Slam State GOP “Regime,” Reynolds Private Jet Use in Boone
At the Boone County Democrats' Picnic for the People, organized as an alternative to GOP Sen. Joni Ernst's third annual Roast and Ride at...
Citing Death Threats, Kim Weaver Drops Bid to Unseat Steve King
Kim Weaver, the only Democrat so far to announce a bid to challenge white nationalist US Rep. Steve King in Iowa's 4th Congressional District...
Climate Hawk Sen. Hogg Rebukes Pence in Boone
In Boone's McHose Park, as hundreds of bikers joined Republican Sen. Joni Ernst en route to the city's Central Iowa Expo from the Big...
Dubuque Mayor One of Dozens Across US Joining to Denounce Trump on Paris Accord
On Thursday, Dubuque Mayor Roy D. Buol joined 85 others across the United States in committing to uphold the carbon-curbing goals expressed in the...
Fact-Checking Congressman Rod Blum on the Paris Accord
Shortly after Donald Trump's Rose Garden address Thursday in which he officially announced that the US would withdraw from the Paris Accord, the international...
