Clay Masters
Host: Morning EditionClay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.
Before MPR News, he worked for Iowa Public Radio as a statehouse and political correspondent starting in 2012 and the host of Morning Edition beginning in 2014.
Clay is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has appeared on various NPR and American Public Media broadcasts and podcasts. He was one of the founding journalists of Harvest Public Media. Clay began his public media career in his native Nebraska where he covered agriculture and food production for Nebraska Public Media.
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It's been a year since 988 launched. The new, easy-to-remember number that replaced the 10-digit suicide prevention lifeline comes at a time when demand for mental health services has soared.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday afternoon banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. It went into effect immediately. A judge plans to issue a ruling Monday that will determine whether or not the ban can be enforced.
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At the Family Leader summit in Des Moines, GOP presidential hopefuls will try to convince Iowa's influential evangelical voting bloc they have the conservative credentials to win the caucuses.
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Republican lawmakers in Iowa passed a new “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban during a special legislative session on Tuesday. The bill would effectively ban abortion after about six weeks into the pregnancy.
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A flurry of campaign events took place in Iowa last week as the field of candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination descended upon the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
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Republicans are showing up in Iowa early and often, trying to stand out against the big personality that former President Donald Trump brings to the GOP primary.
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Dr. Jones has a new book out Friday on Ice Cube Press called “The Swine Republic: Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality.” The book is largely a collection of essays that first appeared on his University of Iowa blog. Jones says it’s an effort to explain to a general audience how Iowa’s politics, economics and culture affect Iowa’s water quality.
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IPR's Clay Masters talks with Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart about the future of the party and fight over Iowa's place in the presidential nominating calendar following the 2023 Iowa legislative session and another pummeling at the polls by Republicans in the 2022 midterms.
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The Republican Party of Iowa says the Democrats' "mail-in" presidential preference plan would kill the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses altogether as Iowa Democrats try to stay flexible in their ongoing calendar battle with the DNC.
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Polk County Judge Scott Rosenberg said the DNR used “illogical interpretations and applications to approve a nutrient management plan for the feedlot" when approving Supreme Beef's manure management plan near the headwaters of a prized trout stream.