Cancer in Iowa: Remembering those we’ve lost amid our joy
Iowa Starting Line editor reflects on the loss of her mom to cancer as her brother's family welcomes a new baby.
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2025
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Amie Rivers
Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the weekly Worker’s Almanac edition of Iowa Starting Line, featuring a roundup of the worker news you need to know. Previously, she was an award-winning journalist at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; now, she very much enjoys making TikToks and memes and getting pet photos in her inbox.
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Have a story tip? Reach Amie at [email protected]. For local reporting in Iowa that connects the dots, from policy to people, sign up for Amie's newsletter.
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2025
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What are the most common types of cancer in Iowa?
Here are the most common types of cancer in Iowa in 2025, according to the Iowa Cancer Registry.
Jul
2025
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Free or low-cost resources for those facing cancer in Iowa
From cancer support groups in Iowa, to financial assistance for cancer patients, to wig donations and more, here are some places to start. Many of these places offer services at no charge.
Jul
2025
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Former Iowa legislator writes children’s book on fleeing war in Bosnia
Former Iowa legislator Anesa Kajtazović talks to Iowa Starting Line about her new children's book.
Jul
2025
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ICE in Iowa: West Liberty man with no criminal record detained
It's happening in Iowa. Pascual Leonardo Pedro-Pedro, 20, of West Liberty, went to a routine annual immigration check-in on July 1—abiding by what the government is asking him to do as an immigrant—and was detained by ICE. Pedro-Pedro was brought to the US as a...
Jul
2025
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This week’s Iowa layoffs and more working news you can use
This week's working news you can use: Job Corps cuts hurt Iowa's employment: Despite its success, Ottumwa Job Corps—which offers free education and vocational training for at-risk youth ages 16 to 24—is among the 99 programs the Trump Administration is shutting...
Jul
2025
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Iowa becomes first state to cut transgender civil rights protections
A new Iowa law removing the civil rights of transgender Iowans goes into effect today. Hear from some of the Iowans targeted by the bill. Iowa made history today as the first state to actively remove a previously protected class from its civil rights law, targeting...
Jun
2025
30
WATCH: The GI Bill proves social safety nets work
Where's the love for social safety nets?
Check out the newest episode of Cornhole Champions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzECAsvY2wI
Jun
2025
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WATCH: Rep. Miller-Meeks does not want to make Medicaid better
US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks says the US Senate GOP bill and its massive cuts to Medicaid are too much. But will that change her willingness to vote for it?
Jun
2025
30
WATCH: Why Iowa public schools are required to let private school kids play sports
“Survival mode.”
That’s what Rep. Heather Matson says Iowa’s public school districts are operating in these days.
And in just a couple of short months, there will be another issue added to the growing list of Republican moves that are hurting the state's more than 300 public school districts.
Besides being underfunded, not having teacher candidates to hire, and a voucher system that diverts public funds from public schools to private, the new trouble will be a requirement for public schools to let private school students play in their sports programs.
Matson says she worries about “the possible fiscal and logistical implications.”
