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Iowa schools need substitute teachers, and people without teaching backgrounds can fill those roles. Here’s how.

This week on the podcast: the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is coming to Iowa. Plus, a bill to make catfish noodling legal in Iowa advances.

This week on the podcast: legislative forums in Eastern Iowa and the second funnel week at the Iowa Capitol.

In this week’s installment of The Gazette’s Curious Iowa, we answer questions about why Iowa doesn’t have toll roads, how the state funds road improvement projects, and whether electric vehicles contribute to the fuel tax.

Ninety-two years ago, the American Goldfinch became Iowa’s state bird. Today, Iowans are calling for a state horse, fish and butterfly. How are these official state symbols designated?

Also on the podcast this week: Scott County GOP elects new leadership and remembering Jack Kibbie

Did you know these three things were invented in Iowa?

Tune in for details on a tenuous legal partnership between the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and Iowa Auditor’s Office. Plus, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson pledges to hold town halls.

The Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau recaps the first funnel deadline of the 2025 legislative session.

Jon Limmer, aka The LayZ Otter, brings Iowa artists’ songs to life

These four scientists studied Iowa’s flora, preserved prairie, and drafted legislation to establish Iowa’s state park system.

After Linn County lost an estimated 1 million trees in the 2020 derecho, Monarch Research Project of Marion made it its mission to rebuild. The nonprofit has planted 100,000 native trees in Linn County. Monarch Research Project wants to double that total in the next five years.

This week on the show, Gov. Kim Reynolds may have accidentally announced her re-election campaign, Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks is getting a primary rematch, and legislative proposals to ditch the outdoors and recreation trust fund and remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

More than a century ago, a Civil War cannon proudly sat in Greene Square in Cedar Rapids. Today, the park is cannon-less and Scott Huffman of Cedar Rapids wants to know where the cannon went.

This week on the podcast, Iowa’s version of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law is back in the courts and the Legislature, Middle East tensions come to the Iowa Capitol, and Gov. Kim Reynolds talks DOGE and Lutheran Services.