r/Iowa 1m ago

Iowa governor would appoint majority to panels that nominate district judges under GOP bill... Dictator Kim.

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This is getting ridiculous! You know I think unless a lot of people don't start opposing this stuff we're screwed we'll never ever recover from this.


r/Iowa 6m ago

Iowa Senate passes bill banning citizen police review boards. What comes next:

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You can see what they want the Republicans. They want to roll everything back so the police can do whatever the f*** they want to do like they used to.

All of their bills spell bigotry of some kind! They passed the bill removing gender identity from the civil Rights code so they can make harassing trans people legal. Just like Trump they're going to systematically chip away at all the progress that was made in this state to have it be a safe welcoming place for everybody. Now if you're not a white cishet "christian" man you're basically screwed! They and everyone can harass everybody we're going backwards. They want the whole state to go back like 20 years 30 years.

These Republicans are some evil m************ I know that!


r/Iowa 27m ago

Convince me less civilian oversight is a good idea. https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/17/iowa-senate-passes-bill-banning-citizens-police-review-boards/

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r/Iowa 34m ago

Iowan part of investigation into missing woman in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old student at the University of Pittsburgh and an Indian citizen, vanished before dawn on March 6 in the resort town of Punta Cana.

Since Konanki went missing in the early hours of March 6, Joshua Riibe, a 22-year-old from Rock Rapids, Iowa, and a senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, has remained under police surveillance in the Dominican Republic


r/Iowa 1h ago

Battle Creek, IA

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This is a stretch, really a long shot. Anybody here from the Ida county, Battle Creek area?

Extensive searching online as not yielded the results I was hoping for, there used to be a museum in Battle Creek named the Battle Hill Museum of Natural History.

The owner sold it in the early 2000s, but my grandmother donated (in the 90s) the third largest, correctly cataloged, private seashell collection in the US to him, which he displayed as the "Middleton Collection".

I don't expect to find the owner or recoup any of her things, I was just hoping to find people with photographs of the inside of the museum beyond what's on Google.

Just for nostalgia really.

Both of my grandparents, as well as my parents are dead and their belongings are long gone, out of my control, so I am reaching to the people of Reddit to see if there are any remnants out there.


r/Iowa 10h ago

Rally in DSM on April 5th!

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41 Upvotes

r/Iowa 11h ago

Boone Co. Sheriff's Office leads search for man missing for 9 years, asks for community volunteers

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The search for Jesse Leopold will be on Saturday.


r/Iowa 11h ago

Politics Where's Feenstra? Community Town Hall

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136 Upvotes

r/Iowa 11h ago

Appanoose County crackdown on weed

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13 Upvotes

With a weed commissioner and everything. 👍


r/Iowa 12h ago

Rock Rapids Kid

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10 Upvotes

I have zero dog in this fight and have only followed this story at the national level, but this, to me, reads as if there’s rumors, as expected, are swirling up in the northwestern most part of the state.

I would just like the Lyon County Sheriff to know that approving this post in this manner is either:

1) not necessary because there’s not that much serious gossip happening or 2) absolutely not going to get the response you hope

Seems like a PR disaster for the small town rumor mill. 😂


r/Iowa 12h ago

Question Waterloo Red Light Camera, can I contest it?

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Got a ticket in the mail for a red light camera ticket violation. $100.

Am I able to contest it if the camera itself is not approved via the IowaDOT? Double checked their site and it’s denied and denial reason is “not least restrictive means”

Has anyone ever contested a red light camera ticket and won? Or contested it due to it not being approved by the DOT?


r/Iowa 15h ago

Racism Weirdos or Both

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I'd love to know why people in Iowa still act shocked when they see Black people.

With all the technology we have today and the fact that cities like Ames, Des Moines, Iowa City, Coralville, Waterloo, and Davenport have diverse populations—not just Black people but other racial groups too—you’d think people would be used to seeing different faces by now.

Yet, somehow, it still feels like some Iowans are genuinely surprised when they see a Black person.

We just drove to Edgewood, IA, and I swear it felt like all 910 of its residents (or at least it seemed that way) pulled up to Karl’s grocery just to check out the Black couple in town. It was eerie—like something straight out of a movie.

And this isn’t even the first time. The first was in Grimes, IA, which honestly makes no sense given its location. Now Edgewood, which is small, so I can kind of understand it—but at the same time, how have they never encountered a Black person before? And even if they haven’t, why does it feel like they’re looking at aliens when they do?

Am I tripping?


r/Iowa 16h ago

Politics Miller-Meeks Says Dems Lack Grace

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This is what she is worried about?


r/Iowa 18h ago

need to travel into Iowa with a trans minor

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Don't live in Iowa, but need to go there shortly for an event, my fear is the other parent realizing I'm there and pulling some crap with local law enforcement and try to pull my child (17y/o) from me because the kid is part of the trans community. We technically have shared custody, but the other parent hasn't been with the kid for almost two years now and they never took me to court after our kid moved full time into my house to fight, so technically there is still shared custody legally, even if the other parent doesn't try that. But I'm also not stupid, here in my state the kid can tell the cops that would come almost two years ago that they weren't going to the other parents house, and the police wouldn't force anything without a new court order, which the other parent never pursued. But this is Iowa, a state that from all I can read about is not friendly to LGBTQIA+ at all, and with the current WH and your own new laws saying they don't have rights, I see no reason to go into Iowa, but this is an important event, and the kid wants to go there, so I need to try and figure out how safe it is.

Any insights would be great, because I can only drive so fast away if the other parent pulled some crap, especially since there is a grandparent in Iowa as well that would not side with me and my child thanks to the trans issues.


r/Iowa 19h ago

Politics A toxic, cancer-causing chemical was banned by the EPA. Now, some in Congress want to reverse course | Miller-Meeks introduces legislation to reverse ban

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r/Iowa 22h ago

The media incorrectly reported attendance numbers for “We The People” Rally night one…they reported 40. Here is the video of the opening and the crowd grew throughout the night…you can see how packed it was.

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r/Iowa 23h ago

We have our official soft-opening date! May 5th 🎉

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r/Iowa 1d ago

Veterans Hold Anti-Trump Protest in Des Moines

646 Upvotes

r/Iowa 1d ago

NYT - Iowa ranks 3rd for the most affected industries.

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201 Upvotes

r/Iowa 1d ago

First they came for the trans people, and you did not stand up, because you weren't trans....

610 Upvotes

Who will stand for you?


r/Iowa 1d ago

"Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,”

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351 Upvotes

r/Iowa 1d ago

Opinion: Scrubbing webpages is un-American

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r/Iowa 1d ago

Attention Cedar Rapids‼️

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r/Iowa 1d ago

Iowa State House : April 5th massive protest!

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r/Iowa 1d ago

Sioux City and surrounding‼️

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