B.J. Dvorak, who has been the agency’s plans and exercises officer since 2019, will start April 9. He succeeds Steve O’Konek, who is retiring after leading the agency for four years.
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B.J. Dvorak, who has been the agency’s plans and exercises officer since 2019, will start April 9. He succeeds Steve O’Konek, who is retiring after leading the agency for four years.
V Fixmer-Oraiz said they have always been interested in public policy and serving the community. But now felt like the right moment to take the next step and run for elected office.
Lawmakers express frustration with lack of progress despite years of proposals and fruitless debates on how best to modernize the four-decade-old nickel deposit law.
Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat seeking re-election, joins many Republicans and ethanol industry leaders in calling for the Biden administration to utilize E15 to ease gas price pressures on consumers.
Also, two of the three Democrats running in Iowa’s U.S. Senate primary are scheduled to participate in a candidate forum in Delhi.
Iowans forced out of work for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are now beginning to collect unemployment benefits due to a new law approved in October.
Residents and visitors can once again rent an e-bike or scooter in downtown Cedar Rapids and surrounding districts to get around town.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, cited philosophical differences with Ketanji Brown Jackson as his reason for opposing her confirmation as a Supreme Court justice.
Abby Finkenauer, a Democrat hoping to claim Republican Chuck Grassley’s seat in the U.S. Senate, says the long-serving senator tried to roll back the Affordable Care Act at least 12 times since the law was enacted in 2010.
Iowa City will work with the cities of Henderson, Nev., and Eau Claire, Wis. The collaborative grant will look at zoning code in each of the three cities and how to increase housing diversity.
A bill waiting for Gov. Kim Reynolds to sign into law would strip local city councils of regulating the sale of fireworks, frustrating efforts of cities like Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to crack down on the consumer explosives in response to citizen complaints and a rise in injuries.
In a dispute dating to 2010, the Iowa State Association of Counties is taking the state to court in an effort to avoid paying sales tax.
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