This voter guide includes information about who is running for re-election to Cedar Rapids and Iowa City school boards. The Gazette will be speaking with candidates about their campaigns and priorities in future stories.
Area veterans are now able to get a discounted adoption fee through Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control thanks to a new partnership with a national nonprofit.
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 North Liberty City Council is getting closer to approving ballot language that would put a 1 percent local-option sales tax in front of voters this fall.
Iowa’s U.S. House members — all Republicans — voted Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill, sending it to him to sign before the Fourth of July holiday weekend and just a few hours before Trump was set to speak in Des Moines at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
The Collaborative Growth Initiative aims to bolster population and workforce in the greater Cedar Rapids region.
Litigants trade allegations of forum shopping in state and federal court
The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed.
President Donald Trump is set to speak in Des Moines later tonight at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Here’s how to attend or watch, and what to expect.
Here’s what it would look like for Iowa if those policies become law as part of reconciliation bill in Congress
The task force would make recommendations about adding nuclear energy to Iowa’s energy portfolio.
The move by the Trump administration will withhold $8 million in 21st Century grants from Iowa. The grants fund after-school and summer school programs that serve more than 10,000 Iowa kids. No immediate changes are being made to current grant contracts, but if the funding is not reinstated by next fiscal year, it would be ‘devastating.’
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