A poll from the New York Times finds Ashly Hinson ahead of Josh Turek and Rob Sand squeaking by Zach Lahn. A poll by Fox News paints a very different picture. littlevillagemag.com/josh-turek-l...

The DOJ and 17 states (including Iowa) have sued three companies over an alleged scheme to price-gouge egg consumers. As settlement, the companies are offering a nice 53 million eggs in this tryin' time.

“Noncitizens are not bargaining chips to be shifted from district to district as litigation strategy,” the chief judge of the Southern District of Iowa warned ICE and DHS. "This pattern of behavior is troubling.”

Iowa City made CNN's "America's Best Towns to Visit 2026" list, and a certain publication got a mention. 👀 "These days [Jordan Sellergren] runs Little Village, a monthly news, arts and culture magazine that distills Iowa City’s easygoing spirit into print and distributes it far afield."

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In 2017, federal and state funding cuts led to the first major cutback of Planned Parenthood services in Iowa. Four clinics closed. Then three more. Last year, another four shuttered. After this month, the state will be down to a single in-person PP clinic.

The lawsuit alleges Hy-Vee's "department manager" title is used to get around paying overtime wages to those employees.

"No other nation has ever been given the access to U.S. military resources that Section 219 proposes to give to Israel," writes Ed Flaherty of Iowa City. "It is an affront to U.S. sovereignty, and is frankly absurd."

With yesterday's decision, SCOTUS effectively blocked thousands of other lawsuits alleging Bayer was civilly liable for failing to warn users that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is a carcinogen.  Bayer manufactures all its glyphosate in Muscatine, Iowa.

When Kamal Hammouda opened his first restaurant in Grinnell in 1992, he raised a few eyebrows with his decision not to serve pork. “But this is Iowa,” someone pointed out. “But this is me,” the chef replied. Hammouda's story is now the subject of a documentary, showing in Des Moines this weekend.

"I ran as an independent, but, um, you know, at some point I made a pragmatic choice," Sec. Kennedy said in the recorded phone call to Iowa Libertarian Rick Stewart, published by the Washington Post. "So, it’s the same question for you."

"In a state that is trying hard to erase the LGBTQ+ community, this lack of presence spoke volumes," writes Kate Carroll de Gutes and Laura Julier.

“This is the route of my forefathers,” Ioway Chief Na’je Nine impressed upon U.S. officials in 1837. “We have the history. We have always owned this land. It is what bears our name.”

A plaintiff with diabetes and chronic kidney failure said his diet and health have gotten worse as a result of Reynolds' SNAP restrictions, ostensibly meant to "make America healthy again." He can no longer afford salads, Pedialyte and cut fruit, but his benefits still cover ice cream.

"We need safe, cost-effective power production, not official doctrine promoted by a politically appointed committee," writes Paul Deaton of Solon, referring to the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force created by Gov. Reynolds.

The immigrant from Sudan “has been detained for almost two years as his case has wound through immigration court, and DHS’s recent appeal has further prolonged that detention,” the lawsuit states. “As such, [his] detention is unlawful.”

On New Year’s Eve in 1865, just six months after the final shots were fired in the Civil War, Davenport's Black community threw an “Emancipation Festival.” The Quad Cities Juneteenth Fest as we know it today kicked off in 1989, and is still growing and evolving.

Back in the day, David Tollefson would drive over two hours after work to get to Basix, Cedar Rapids' beloved gay bar, by midnight, "because you never know, Mr. Right might be inside the building that night.” littlevillagemag.com/club-basix-g...

Would it really be Pokey's Fest if there wasn't at least a little bit of chaos? The Iowa City punk festival returned last weekend bigger than ever. LV was on the scene.

Marco Battaglia told Politico Rep. Zach Nunn visited his house and encouraged him to drop out: “We’ll fly you out to D.C. and you can be my wing man. We’ll make you the poster boy for election integrity, and we’ll hang out with Robert Kennedy Jr.” Nunn denies he made Battaglia any offers.

Boasting the lowest prices in town, Man Kwi Park has been working 83-hour weeks going on three decades — including the day after an F-2 tornado nearly tore through her salon. Now, Park is ready for rest, travel and art-making. She will close the one-chair, walk-in-only Hair Art on June 30.

“I feel like I woke up in the USSR," said Jules Cutler, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union. The other ousted Libertarian, Marco Battaglia, says his GOP opponent Zach Nunn and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently pressured him to drop out.

“When this place opened, Reagan was president, and he was a tyrannical president of this country. He was coming down hard on us," recalled The Blazing Saddle founder and co-owner Bob "Mongo" Eikleberry, a Vietnam veteran. "I always put my community first and me second."

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — to whom Crystal Methyd paid tribute in the most recent episode of 'RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars' — have origins in eastern Iowa.

God forbid a girl has hobbies. Iowa Stage Theatre Company's current production is a Y2K comedy as dark as Tobey's suit in 'Spider-Man 3.'

Towards the end of Derek Wulf's 2022 campaign for Iowa House, KCRG reported — and Wulf subsequently admitted — his family did not reside in the district he was running to represent.

In very brief comments today, Trump made it sound like he deserved credit for Zach Lahn's victory over the Trump-endorsed Randy Feenstra in Iowa, because Lahn was actually the more pro-Trump candidate. The president could not, however, remember Lahn's name.

After 25 years in the U.S., and two months after filing their lawsuit against the federal government, University of Iowa professor Sunday Goshit and his wife Regina can breathe a sigh of relief.

Yang Lu and Olivia I-Hsuan Tsai returned to Zenith Chamber Music Festival with "a touching celebration of composers past and present who used music to understand and ease their internal struggles," writes Meghan Klinkenborg.

The decision to privatize yet another state service, with no guarantee of jobs or savings for Iowans, has come under fire from the IT workers' union and both nominees for governor.

Vietnam Cafe owner and chef Brenda Tran has served mall patrons for 15 years, and is now racing against the clock to secure her restaurant's future. “If I give up,” she said, “I feel like I’m betraying myself.”

The Stage III "water warning" from CIWW includes a mandatory ban on lawn watering, with some exceptions, due to ongoing toxicity issues with the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers.

"ICE costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars annually, and for some, it costs them their liberties ... or their lives," writes Libertarian for Congress Marco Battaglia.

Sheer Image closed their debut set at Raccoon Motel on Monday with a cover of Aus Rotten’s “Fuck Nazi Sympathy,” during which a mosh pit broke out.

Dave Muhlbauer, a farmer and county supervisor out of western Iowa, "knows it’s time to rotate the crops in state government,” according to the Sand campaign.

You can catch Iowa Pride Ensembles marching at various Pride fests this month. “People don’t belong in closets. Neither do your talents or your instruments," co-founder Rachel Gulick said.

“While this delay is frustrating, we’re committed to getting the project right,” Iowa City officials said in an announcement this afternoon. It will be the city's second summer with no outdoor pool.

In a speech Thursday, Rob Sand made a case for bipartisan governance by citing Iowa's multi-year deficits and failure to legalize cannabis under GOP control.

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With initial funding of $6 million and a goal of $10 million, the statewide initiative will gather and analyze data to identify factors driving Iowa's high cancer rates.

“I always joke that Awful Purdies is my longest relationship," Kate Rowe said. "I can think of moments in time where each person in this group has shown up for me.” The band is gearing up for a festive summer, from performing at Iowa Arts Fest to drip-dropping new music in the months ahead.

"A politician with courage would address the issue by telling the truth about it. Then they’d call out their opponent’s transphobic positions for what they are," writes Kent Williams of Iowa City.

In a video last night, Democratic nominee for governor Rob Sand criticized Zach Lahn for "lies about his past" and for splitting his time between Kansas and Iowa. “Most of us just live here,” Sand said with a laugh and shrug.

Zach Lahn outraised Randy Feenstra during the final 12-day reporting period before the primary. Lahn also loaned his campaign another $500,000 (which he can repay himself) and launched a deceptive ad accusing Feenstra of giving "Iowa taxpayer benefits to illegals" in 2003.

The field has narrowed considerably since January, and today's primary will cull even more 2026 candidates in Iowa. Take one last look at the cast of characters vying for Terrace Hill, Capitol Hill or head of a statewide office:

Brooks Wheelan is currently opening for Seth Meyers and John Oliver on tour, but he's on thin ice with Tim Robinson, self-declared commissioner of Spider League. "Spider League will get mad at me for talking about it, but they don’t own me!" he told LV.

Zach Lahn has yet to respond directly to Trump's endorsement of Feenstra, or Feenstra's new attack ad accusing him of investing in a "sex toy company."

The Trump administration is concerned “deportation to a country with an Ebola outbreak could be used in a migrant’s defense against deportation," an anonymous official told Politico.

'Cinderella' marked Ballet Des Moines' first collaboration with the Des Moines Symphony, which "brought Prokofiev’s sumptuous score to life, supporting the dancers with a captivating musical landscape," Meghan Klinkenborg writes.

Iowa governor hopeful Zach Lahn has earned the endorsement of Jeff Shipley, an anti-vax state rep who says “Dems rely on Satan for their health guidelines" and being trans is like having a "malignant sarcoma." In March, he asked "Are you a r___ed f____?" in a phone call with a citizen.