Top headline: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 9/22/2022
Bottom headline: Des Moines Register, 11/9/2022
Republicans appeared on track to expand their majorities in the Iowa House and Senate Tuesday night, reaching numbers not seen in decades.
Democratic bright spots were few and far between. In Dallas County, incumbent Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, D-West Des Moines, appeared to defeat Senate President Jake Chapman, R-Adel, a top target of Democrats. And Democrats led in a pair of battleground House seats in Ankeny.
But Republicans knocked back Democrats elsewhere, including key wins over Democratic incumbents in Woodbury County and in an eastern Iowa Senate seat.
Meanwhile......neighboring Minnesota experience a blue wave yesterday.
The Free Press, 11/9/2022
Minnesota Democrats defied expectations in an election that had been expected to go well for Republicans, winning the governor’s race and completing a trifecta by winning both houses of the Legislature to take full control of state government for this first time in eight years.
The Twin Cities metro area is probably where a lot of those Iowa 'brains' are relocating.
10/31/2022 update starts here
Top headline: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 9/22/2022
Bottom headline: Axios Iowa, 10/11/2022
How it started: Luke Martz launched Iowa Field Report in 2020 after hearing from other conservatives who "... had become frustrated with the way our party was being portrayed by the mainstream media" and believed there was a liberal tilt.
Original 10/30/2022 post starts here
Top headline: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 9/22/2022
Bottom headline: Bloomberg, 10/24/2022
From the Gazette:
Iowa has the 10th-worst percentage difference in the nation between the number of college graduates it produces and the number of college graduates living in the state — a negative 34 percent — according to a recent Washington Post analysis that uses data from a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
That figure is lower than the six states bordering Iowa. The next closest is Wisconsin at negative 21 percent. [emphasis added]
Actually, it appears that 58% of Iowans, many of them nice, are slowly being poisoned to death. (11/26/2021)
What's the matter with Iowa? (series)
What's the matter with Iowa? Health benefit plans mean you're screwed when it comes to pre-existing conditions. (10/5/2018)
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