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09/15/2025

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09/15/2025

"Sure, today, it seems like they [Democrats] are pretty much a joke, right?” Hinson told supporters on Sunday. “ … We cannot rest on our laurels, though, and I think we all know that we have not come this far to only go this far. We have to keep Iowa red."

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, officially launching her U.S. Senate campaign in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, said Iowa Republicans can’t be complacent in 2026 if they want President Donald Trump to […]

09/15/2025

Amid the visa chaos of the Trump administration, English new wave icon Lene Lovich thought a U.S. tour wouldn't work out. But, "It just so happens that somebody who is in my band, Jude Rawlins, is living in America,” she told LV. “In fact, he’s living in Iowa."

After her show tomorrow at Lefty's Live Music, Lovich and her band will join Devo and the B-52s on tour.

Avant-pop icon Lene Lovich hasn’t mounted a major U.S. tour since 1989, but that will change this September when she opens for the B-52s and Devo on their 11-date run […]

09/12/2025

Wastewater from meat and poultry plants can carry nitrogen, phosphorus, oil and grease, chlorides and other pollutants. The new rule would have reduced them by roughly 100 million pounds per year, according to the EPA.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a January 2024 proposed rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meat packing plants and slaughterhouses.  The agency […]

09/11/2025

'American Pickers' alum Danielle Colby has long collected artifacts from st******se history. You can ogle them at the new Ecdysiast Arts Museum, also a venue for burlesque performances and lessons.

“Downtown Davenport has been so encouraging and wonderful and supportive," Colby said. "I think we’re in very good hands here."

It was hard to find time to chat with television personality Danielle Colby, and that’s expected. While most of us know her as an American Pickers cast member, Colby’s added […]

09/11/2025

Among the former Moen properties set to go to auction in November are Plaza Towers, the 14-story building with Bread Garden Market on the ground floor, and Park@201, the glass-sided building on the Ped Mall.

The date for some of Iowa City’s best-known downtown buildings to be sold at a sheriff’s auction has been set. In April, GreenState Credit Union foreclosed on four properties owned […]

09/10/2025

“Everybody should feel welcome in the state of Iowa," Sand replied when someone asked if he'd reconsider his support for the trans sports ban. "I might not offer you full agreement with everything you believe."

As Sand moved on to the next questioner, someone in the back of the crowd in North Liberty called out, “Coward!”

Not everyone at Field Day Brewing in North Liberty last Thursday night was there to see Rob Sand, something he acknowledged as he started the Johnson County stop on his […]

09/09/2025

What should be Iowa's state pie? Iowa author, filmmaker and prolific pie-baker Beth M. Howard shared her pick with Little Village.

It is the first weekend of the Iowa State Fair, and Beth M. Howard is still thinking about pie.  “I’ve tried to get away from pie a couple of times,” […]

09/09/2025

“There was this room we didn’t know what to do with, and at some point, I realized we could have a space for art — a sort of attempt to transcend your typical coffee shop art," Wake Up Iowa Coffee's Jarrett Mitchell said of the Sideroom Gallery.

Odds are that any coffee-bearing establishment you wander into will have art on its walls. There’s an equal chance that those artworks, hung above half-and-half stations and study spaces, are […]

09/09/2025

Rep. Joe Mitchell, part of the GOP supermajority in the Iowa House, said, "It’s time to take power back from the insiders and return it to the people of Iowa." Software consultant and farmer Christian Schlaefer promises to "fight for what it truly means to be an American.”

Two more Republican candidates, Joe Mitchell and Christian Schlaefer, have declared their campaigns for congressional seats in Iowa. The GOP primary race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District opened up last […]

09/09/2025

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, from LV's September issue: littlevillagemag.com/this-modern-world-september-2025/

09/08/2025

Despite Hinson's MAGA credentials, Trump's endorsement was not a foregone conclusion.

Jim Carlin, the first Iowa Republican to launch a run for Senate this year, has spent the better part of a decade loudly proclaiming his loyalty to Donald Trump, including […]