Sitemap - 2025 - Iowa Writers Collaborative Roundup

Hotpants, Hot Takes, & Heartfelt Music

Shock, Awe, Shucks, Hypocrisy, and Boy Scout Troubles

Today’s Zoom

Your Flipside Edition!

Drumbeat of War, Water Woes, Medicaid Meltdown, Immigration, and AI-Driven Hiring

Winning (?), Salute to Brian Wilson, Tractors, Music, and Strictly Personal Stuff

EXTRA! EXTRA! Welcome, Craig DeVrieze

Snapshot From Iowa: A Nation On the Brink

Read Between the Rhymes: Iowa Writers on Love, Loss, Resistance and Wienerschnitzel

Statewide candidates are starting to emerge, while courts, education, and healthcare are under attack

From Fraud to Film, Iowa Libraries, Pizza Legends

Ernst's comment at an Iowa Town Hall prompted responses in this Big Beautiful Roundup

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Flipping things around...

Brenna Bird’s Power Play? Robot Cows, and Buttigieg in Cedar Rapids—The Stories You’ll Be Talking About

This Week from Iowa’s Front Porch: Tech Titans, Tailgate Tours & Met Gala Glam

The Only Roundup Where Caitlin Clark, Bernie Saggau, and Shoeless Joe All Show Up

Warren Buffett, a Bug Invasion, and the Meaning of Life

Politics, a new Pope, Warren Buffett, John Fetterman, Secrets, and Strictly Personal

From Caitlin Clark to Carver Arena, and a Piano That Still Sings: Iowa Stories That Hit Home

Kim Reynolds Ducks the Spotlight, Trump Melts Down, and Iowa Burns—Inside the Political Inferno You Won’t See on the 10 O’Clock News”

Adding Mason City to the IWC Map

Grassley's Candid Comment about Hegseth, Is Democracy Unraveling? Bagels, Baby Goats, the Pope and more

She Turned Down a Pro Hoops Career. The Pope Died After Meeting J.D. Vance. Iowa Writers Unpack a Week That Might Just Change Your Perspective.​

RIP Jay Byers: Plus, The Political Column That’ll Make You Spit Out Your Coffee

What do Caitlin Clark, a Jazz Legend, and a Sheep Farmer Have in Common?

What’s Eating Iowa?

Butterhorns, Barn Fires & Darth Vader’s HR File: This Week Around Iowa

Political Bullshit, Trade Ghosts & Tariff Tornadoes: This Week in American Mayhem

Families aren't perfect...

Ernst challenger? Dip your chips in a ketchup bottle? A political apology...

Vilsack's Farewell to Jimmy Carter, Stories and Strictly Personal Reflections

This Week in Iowa: Christie Vilsack’s Return to Writing, the Cherry Sisters’ Infamous Free Speech Case, and a Bank Teller’s NASCAR Dream

Pie, Tunes, Tall Tales: The stories that make us sing...

Iowa in Turmoil: Scandals, Pay Hikes, and Political Showdowns

The Flipside: Unfiltered Stories, Bold Voices, and the Iowa You Didn't See Coming

Rick Jost Joins Iowa Writers' Collaborative, Adding Business Insight

Iowa Writers' Collaborative Speakers Bureau

The Flipside: Escape the Chaos and Dive into these Soulful columns, and valuable reviews

TWO big things - Breaking News - Stacey Walker joins the Iowa Writers' Collaborative + columns that were missed in today's roundup

Iowa’s Democracy on the Brink: Human Rights Stripped, Ukraine Betrayed, and the Climate Crisis Ignored

Hamish McKenzie Meets with Iowa Writers' Collaborative members

Need a song, a laugh, a great meal, a new trend?

Iowa Writers' Collaborative Speakers Bureau

Todd Dorman, of the CR Gazette, joins the Iowa Writers' Collaborative & Dave Price leads Iowa Down Ballot

2/21/25 Iowa Down Ballot Podcast with Dave Price

Welcome to the Flipside

Ack! No way to sum up this week in national, international and local news. Just read this.

Goats, Glam, and the Day the Music Died: This Week’s Must-Read Stories Across Iowa, Life Lessons, and Pop Culture Milestones

Inside the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative: The State’s Biggest Storytelling Revolution

Unrivaled Women's Basketball, the best sandwiches in the metro, and a farmer from Decorah in Palestine...

Who's to blame for a deadly plane crash? What one policy could wreck the US auto industry?

Our 'Why' and your link to today's Office Lounge call with paid subscribers

A Secret About Caitlin Clark’s Predecessor, A Musician’s Haunting Visions, and a Shocking Twist in the James Beard Awards!

A Secret About Caitlin Clark’s Predecessor, A Musician’s Haunting Visions, and a Shocking Twist in the James Beard Awards!

Heartland angst - a new administration, Ernst cast a deciding vote, Letters, and a mystery around an "on-duty" relationship

$21 Feast, Bye-Bye Maid-Rite, Music . . .

A new legislative session podcast, a new look, an Offenburger story about layoffs in big ag co-op, and hang-on-to-your-hats political commentary

Flipside Edition

Breaking news: two new columnists and a major change to the Iowa Writers' Collaborative

Happy (?) New Year...