Obama administration continues quiet crackdown on undocumented workers

Scenes of massive immigration raids in the Iowa communities of Postville and Marshalltown have faded from the public’s collective memory, and current federal officials appear to want to keep it that way.

Grassley-led ministry review ends with same decades-old questions

There wasn’t a great deal of fanfare last week when U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley released a three-year-long committee staff review of the financial activities of several media-based ministries and churches, but that is likely because the paper offers no concrete steps forward.

Iowa conservatives hope to exclude one 2012 GOP hopeful

Fred Karger, an openly gay Republican who has formed an exploratory committee in hopes of seeking his party’s nomination for president in 2012, has already had “conversations” with the Hawkeye State’s more socially conservative party members, but the discourse is heating up again as state activists aim to exclude Karger More…

2012 nominating calendar already facing uncertainties

Let’s hope Iowans didn’t use ink when they marked Feb. 6, 2012, as their next presidential caucus date.

New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner may be forced to move that state’s first-in-the-nation primary forward due to a state law that requires the election be held seven days prior to More…

Harkin Hopeful Unemployment Benefits Extension Will Pass Tonight

Another vote on a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed may come to the floor of the Senate as early as tonight, according to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).

“I hope that we can get this done — we only missed it by one vote More…

Tea Partiers Get Rowdy in Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A boisterous, if not outright angry, crowd of about 100 people gathered in downtown today to protest government spending and high taxes.

While some in the Republican Party have called for the demonstrations to include social conservative issues such as gay marriage and abortion, More…