Residents provide feedback as county staff, supervisors work to regulate future data center development.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Residents provide feedback as county staff, supervisors work to regulate future data center development.
Republican state legislators are advancing bills that would strengthen requirements for educators’ hiring and licensing, and increase penalties for school applicants who falsify resume information.
The bill would prevent school agreements with public libraries to provide students with access to books and other materials.
A bill advancing in the Iowa House would eliminate vaccination requirements for K-12 students, drawing sharp warnings from doctors and public health officials.
City also will look to cover $116,000 deficit with last year’s surplus.
Lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a bill to require all undergraduates attending a public university in Iowa to take survey courses on American history and American government -- despite pushback from Democratic lawmakers concerned with the cost, available faculty, and added pressure on students’ schedules.
Iowa House Republicans advanced legislation Wednesday that would expand restrictions on classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity to middle and high schools. It came the samy day Gov. Kim Reynolds introduced a separate measure that would limit local governments’ ability to protect LGBTQ residents through civil rights ordinances.
Several times a year, Iowans report sightings of black bears in the state. Those animals would gain new protections under a bill that received unanimous support from a House subcommittee Wednesday.
Hubbell was Iowa Democrats’ candidate for governor in 2018, when he spent $7 million of his own money on the campaign
All liquefied CO2 transported through pipelines in Iowa would be taxed per metric ton under legislation proposed by a top Senate Republican that was advanced by legislators Wednesday.
University of Iowa Health Care has agreed to pay $1.5 million to a Scott County woman who nearly a decade ago in 2017 suffered a lacerated ureter near her bladder during surgery for perforated diverticulosis.
An Iowa bill would allow boundary changes, but it is unlikely to advance this legislative session.
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