In Iowa, the average gas price Thursday was $3.924, but topped $4 in many rural areas according to AAA. However, Iowa lawmakers say they’ve heard little talk of suspending state motor fuel taxes -- 30 cents a gallon state tax on gas and ethanol, and 32.5 on diesel fuel.
All three Linn County supervisors said the biggest issue of having only three board members is they can’t talk about policy outside of supervisor meetings without violating Iowa’s open meeting law.
In the first year since the opening of the Linn County Mental Health Access Center, over 70 percent of its patients said in discharge surveys they would not have sought services if not for the new mental health crisis center.
If lawmakers go along with legislation approved by the House, this weekend will be the last time Iowans have to go through the twice-a-year ritual of changing their clocks — if Congress also agrees.
Democratic gubernatorial challenger Deidre DeJear called for the state to fully fund education from preschool to college and to make at least 30 hours a week of child care available to families. She would support a moratorium on “factory farms” and more funding for Department of Natural Resources water quality efforts.
Democratic leaders took another step Friday toward ending Iowa's status as the first state in the party's presidential nominating process during a sometimes contentious meeting in Washington.
As she has done in the run-up to formally starting to campaign, Gov. Reynolds contrasted her leadership to that of the Biden administrations and the Democratic Congress.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: Reynolds makes it official, filing season, midpoint of the legislative session, and support your local constitutional sheriff.
City Manager Geoff Fruin has selected Scott Lyon as the city’s next fire chief. The appointment goes to the Civil Service Commission and City Council for confirmation.
The Ankeny Republican will run for re-election this year in the newly drawn Iowa Senate District 23, which encompasses the rural, northern areas of Polk County outside the city of Ankeny.
Gov. Terry Branstad had announced that he would not seek re-election in 1998. It was the end of the Branstad era, or so we thought. (The ‘stache made a comeback in 2010.) His announcement set off lots of conjecture over who would be running for governor.
In 2021, Iowa companies exported $3.1 billion in goods to Mexico, which is the state’s third-largest export destination overall and the second-leading export market for corn, pork and soybeans.
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