It's the democracy, stupid
The Big Picture with Edwin Eisendrath
LISTEN: Guns on school grounds & in school buses? Kids working in meat packing plants? What's happening to Iowa?
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LISTEN: Guns on school grounds & in school buses? Kids working in meat packing plants? What's happening to Iowa?

Iowa Starting Line's Ty Rushing explains it all. Listen to our recent WCPT conversation:

Like many, I am worried about Iowa and Iowans. It feels like a formerly generous, conservative sensible and state had become radically untethered from reality and is now full-on MAGA- with all its cruelty and its disregard for the actual effects of policies that are made for FOX News sound-bites. In this conversation, Iowa Starting Line Senior Editor Ty Rushing talked about recent moves on a series of hot topics including:

  • Guns in Schools

  • Kids in factories

  • Attacks on accountability- what just happened to the state auditor?

  • Attacks on women’s reproductive rights

  • Attacks on LGBTQ people

For more Iowa coverage, you should check out the Iowa Starting Line, a part of Courier Newsroom.

At a time when rumors, lies and misinformation fly far faster around social media than actual facts, Iowa Starting Line is working to keep Iowans informed with important context on the stories that impact your life.

We work to cut through the online disinformation and half-truths to provide quality coverage from credible sources by our experienced team of Iowa-based editors and reporters. Our local journalists care deeply about these issues because we call this state our home.

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