Articles Tagged: Kim Reynolds

Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday that Iowa officials have contacted the White House to be involved in discussions on how to keep immigrant agricultural workers in the country.

Despite Gov. Kim Reynolds’ veto of $1.5 million lawmakers appropriated toward a University of Northern Iowa effort to charge in-state tuition to undergrads from border states, UNI has found a way to offer the good-neighbor discount anyway.

Metro High School science teacher Chuck Tonelli took on a challenge 20 years ago, and as the Southeast Iowa Region STEM Teacher of the Year, he is thankful he did.

President Donald Trump in Iowa on Thursday promised to keep the state a central part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration, celebrated Congressional approval of his sweeping tax and spending legislation, and snuck in a few of his greatest campaign-style rally hits.

The task force would make recommendations about adding nuclear energy to Iowa’s energy portfolio.

Iowa’s economy had a rough first three months of the year, according to federal data. While Gov. Kim Reynolds blamed a sluggish farm economy and former President Joe Biden, state experts say Iowa’s economy has been struggling for much longer.

Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird will not run for governor in 2026. Bird said on social meida she plans to run a "fierce re-election campaign" for attorney general and still has “more work to do.”

State and local leaders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the grand reopening of a wind turbine factory in West Branch, just hours after U.S. Senate Republicans passed Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” that would roll back federal green energy tax credits that spurred the company to restart production that had been idled since 2013.

While a new Iowa law that strips gender identity protections from the Iowa Civil Rights Act went into effect Tuesday, the ACLU of Iowa is reminding Iowans a number of other civil right protections remain for trans people.

Also in The Gazette’s Capitol Notebook, Canadian National Railway announces $38 million investment in Iowa

Reiterating Iowa’s “longstanding support for Israel and the Jewish community,” Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday ordered the Board of Regents to review antisemitism policies at each of its universities and report back to her office on acts of antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023.

July 1 is the beginning of the fiscal year and the date new laws take effect, unless otherwise stated. Iowa’s majority-Republican General Assembly this year passed more than 170 laws dealing with education, firearms, crime, health care, paid family leave and more. Here’s what goes into effect this week.

Republican Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley announced Friday he will seek re-election to the Iowa House, forgoing a run for governor in 2026.

Iowa State Auditor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand rebuked party labels and fielded questions during a town hall Wednesday in Waukee. It was the first stop of 100 that Sand will make across the state this summer and fall. He’s slated to visit all of Iowa’s 99 counties, including two stops in Lee County, to its two county seats.

The groups claim the new state law would increase businesses’ health care costs by millions of dollars, and that it violates existing federal law and businesses’ free speech