Government & Politics

Delegates are proportionally allocated based on the caucus results. Trump’s victory gave him 20 of Iowa’s 40 delegates.

The bill, which said it won’t apply in private schools, would require students and teachers to sing “at least one verse” of the anthem each day. Students and teachers would be allowed to opt out of singing the anthem, but they would be required to stand if able and remain silent while the anthem is sung.

The state has failed to find an Iowa nonprofit to oversee and administer a network of crisis pregnancy centers and maintain a record of the services provided to Iowans.

City Manager Jeff Pomeranz said Cedar Rapids is “hoping to see development activity of some kind in 2024” at the Big Cedar Industrial Park. The City Council has advanced recent rezoning requests by Alliant Energy, which controls the park, but no specific projects have yet emerged.

The bill comes as Iowa nursing homes face heightened scrutiny after multiple reports in the last year of deaths, abuse and neglect at long-term care facilities.

Iowa Republican lawmakers advanced a series of bills Tuesday intended to crack down on the distribution of obscene material to minors online by criminalizing some AI-generated porn, enhancing penalties for providing pornographic materials to minors, and requiring some businesses and social media platforms to verify users’ age.

Proponents said the legislation would make housing more affordable, but critics argued it would drive long-term costs higher for taxpayers

Also, Iowa auditor Rob Sand released a report suggesting middle- and lower-income Iowans have a higher property tax burden than high-income wage earners