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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.

Klazik won the inaugural Iowa Music Award award recognizing adult contemporary hip-hop artists

The museum originated with members of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids in the 1990s.

This week on the podcast: Cedar Rapids casino update, the pesticide tort reform bill is back and Iowa House Republicans’ higher education committee is in full swing

Freezing water expands, causing pipes to burst

This recap of the week in Iowa politics includes the special election to fill a vacant Iowa Senate seat, immigration, ticket bots and a casino moratorium.

R&B artist Daniel Luckett, aka Entre Luche, is a Recording Academy member for the Grammy Awards.