Iowa Opinion Spotlight

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Election officials were reporting plenty of in-person voting Tuesday even after receiving record numbers of early votes. Lines stretched down the block at the Epworth United Methodist Church in Council Bluffs, where voters were waiting up to two hours to cast ballots. Nearly a million...

Iowa officials were prepared for Election Day trouble, but aside from a multi-state robocall shenanigan, said the state had experienced no widespread technical difficulties, organized efforts to intimidate balloters or breaches of security tied with its voter systems by late Tuesday afternoon. The monitoring of election activity, however, remained in...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Even as a fall resurgence of coronavirus infections strain hospitals, officials in many of the hardest-hit states are resisting taking stronger action to slow the spread, with pleas from health experts running up against political calculation and public fatigue. Days before a presidential election that...

Des Moines, Iowa (RI) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was in Des Moines Friday afternoon to deliver his closing pitch to Iowans — at a drive-in rally on the state fairgrounds. (as said) “It’s time for us to stand up, take back our democracy,” Biden said, as car horns...

The state’s coronavirus tracker shows more than 500 Covid patients are in an Iowa hospital today, a higher patient count than at any other time during the pandemic. An infectious disease expert says it’s no surprise to the medical community as the total number of Covid cases identified in Iowa has jumped 28% in the past two weeks.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (IOWA'S NEWS NOW) — The University of Iowa could soon face a multi-million-dollar lawsuit from several former Black football players. That's according to a legal exchange first reported by The Des Moines Register. Eight former players are now working with Tulsa civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons. In a long letter to the university, Solomon-Simmons outlined several demands from the former players, who alleged racial discrimination during their time in the football program.

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Public health officials reported the second-largest number of cases of the illness caused by the novel coronavirus during a 24-hour reporting period since the start of the pandemic, along with additional deaths. As of 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said that 1,595...

President Donald Trump will be coming back to Iowa for what is likely the final time before the election on November 3. While many have already voted in Iowa via mail in ballot or absentee, there's still a large number of undecided voters. Even though Iowa isn't listed as a battleground state in a new New York Times article, it's still an important state for the president who won Iowa in 2016. But just because he won four years ago, doesn't mean everyone is excited to see him...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The 2020 U.S. Senate election will be a referendum on issues big and small, from the a global pandemic to the quality of Iowa’s highways and rural bridges. On Oct. 3, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and challenger Theresa Greenfield met for their second debate in their...

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sep 29, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — One thing Iowans are familiar with is wild weather, says the Iowa Manufactured Homes Association (IMHA). Positioned in the heart of the Midwest, Iowa’s weather ranges from extreme cold and snow to temperatures in the triple digits. And let’s not forget tornadoes. Iowans see virtually everything mother nature can throw, but on August 10, 2020, the state was in for a record-setting weather incident.

DES MOINES –Don’t miss Iowa Architectural Foundation’s (IAF) one-day-only architectural walking tour, Reaching New Heights — that celebrates iconic 1970s architecture downtown Des Moines. The outdoor tour on Saturday, October 10, is part of modern architecture advocate Docomomo’s US National Tour Day, this year themed “The ‘70s Turn 50.”. Reaching...

DES MOINES — Lawmakers approved emergency authority Friday allowing election officials to get a leg up in coping with an expected crush of absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 election. Expecting many more voters than usual to cast ballots absentee rather than go in-person to the polls during the COVID-19...

DES MOINES, Iowa — President Donald Trump won Iowa in 2016 by nearly 10 points, but new polls continue to show a neck-and-neck 2020 presidential race in the Hawkeye State. Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, was at the downtown Des Moines Marriott and spoke with KCCI. She said she doesn't believe in polls, but KCCI's political analyst Dennis Goldford said all the evidence points to Iowa being a close state.

After a lengthy absence from the competitive courses, the Van Meter boys cross country team was back at it as they took on the Tiger Invitational in Adel Monday, Sept. 21. Among a 10 team field that included three ranked foes in North Polk (third in Class 3A), Des Moines Christian (eighth in Class 2A) and the host Tigers (10th in Class 3A), a depleted Van Meter placed fifth overall. Making that placement possible, four runners clocked in top-40 times for the meet.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said Monday he would not oppose hearings for the replacement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg despite insisting that no Supreme Court vacancies be filled during an election year in 2016. In a statement, the Republican senator said he will join in hearings...

Just over two weeks before early voting begins in Iowa, the state has not yet updated its voter registration form to reflect an August executive order that automatically granted voting rights to thousands of Iowa felons who have completed their sentences. Some voting rights advocates say the form, which still...

Iowa — Governor Kim Reynolds is asking Des Moines Public School leaders to work with her staff to settle their differences outside the courtroom as the Des Moines school board prepares for a special meeting this evening. Des Moines schools begin their Fall semester on Tuesday online-only despite not being...

Gov. Kim Reynolds said photos of her at public events without a face covering are just snapshots that don't convey her general practices when it comes to protection against the coronavirus. “We'll take them off for not even a minute, snap a shot, and then we'll put them back on,”...

DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate estimates the governor’s order on felon voting rights may impact about 35,000 Iowans. Pate says the Department of Corrections has given his office a list of Iowans with felony convictions who are covered by the governor’s order and can become a registered voter.

DES MOINES — Iowans rank low in one category and high in another in a study of how well we’re staying socially distanced during the pandemic. The report analyzed publicly-available cell phone location data to determine the frequency people interact with other people — or at least when their phones are near other phones. Sean Lansing, spokesman for TOP Data, says they compared figures from a year ago, the pre-COVID times, to today.