Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and current Iowa Rep. Josh Turek held a meet-and-greet event with Dubuque residents Friday evening, when he discussed the pillars of his campaign to fill the seat held by retiring Sen. Joni Ernst.
Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
Iowa corn growers are expressing frustration toward congressional lawmakers after attempts to pass legislation allowing year-round sales 15 percent corn ethanol blend gasoline, or E15, were omitted from a House funding bill advanced Thursday as farmers in the state grapple with losses in the farm economy.
The Republican Attorneys General Association donated $1 million to Bird’s re-election campaign on New Year’s Eve.
The opening of a new recreation center in Coralville is likely still years away, but efforts to fund the project are well underway. The city plans to use a mix of funds from a local option sales tax, the Iowa City Community School District and a fundraising campaign.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborn, the Iowa National Guard Adjutant General, concluded a five-day visit to the Middle East this week, focused on visiting Iowa soldiers and airmen to recognize their service after two Iowa National Guard soldiers were killed in action last month.
New Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Klimesh, R-Spillville, said he will take the lead and see the bill through its legislative process, a task that rarely is undertaken by leaders in either chamber of the Iowa Legislature.
About 100 people filled the Regional Innovation Center in Eldridge on Thursday night to hear from four of the five Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidates. U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra did not participate because of commitments in Congress.
A bill that advanced out of an Iowa Legislature subcommittee this week would impose a tax on college and university endowments, and use the money generated from the tax to provide workforce grant incentive funds aimed at supporting students pursuing majors in high-wage and high-demand jobs.
This week on the On Iowa Politics podcast, we dig deep into recently published state campaign fundraising reports, everybody’s property tax flags have now been planted, and we hear from our columnists on the Cedar Rapids Schools budget situation.
Iowans would be able to purchase ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine without a prescription under legislation advanced in the Iowa legislature Thursday, a move that medical professionals say could harm Iowans.
The bill adds elected officials to an existing program that allows police officers, judges and other officials to have their home addresses redacted from records with county assessors and county recorders.
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