Government & Politics

An Iowa GOP election bill from 2021 moved 294,000 Iowans to inactive status for not voting in the 2020 general election. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, now running for Iowa Secretary of State, says 80 percent of Linn County’s deactivated voters still are inactive, which is “one step closer” to being canceled. We’ll check those claims.

The road to recapturing U.S. House and Senate majorities and “restoring common sense” in Washington, D.C., to fight inflation, combat rising crime and secure the U.S.-Mexico border runs through Iowa, according to a slate of Republican speakers.

It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.

The state’s recidivism rate dropped for a second consecutive year after five years of increases, corrections director Beth Skinner said

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Student loans are forgiven, Deidre DeJear proposes a boost in …

Iowa Republican U.S. Ashley Hinson said a viral White House tweet highlighting Republican lawmakers for criticizing student loan forgiveness after having much larger amounts of PPP loans forgiven makes a disingenuous comparison.

The $17.7 million project is in the early stages as city explores funding opportunities, including the state’s Destination Iowa program.