Government & Politics

Speaking to Iowa’s surging need for affordable housing to help meet its growing workforce demands, Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday announced a new $100 million allocation to increase the state’s housing stock and protect Iowans’ ability to live in or near the communities in which they work.

“Knowing where your money is going is absolutely crucial to the transparency that I think our government needs,” Hinson told her Cedar Rapids town hall audience.

“Earning college credit while in high school benefits students in so many ways,” said a statement from Ann Lebo, director of the state Education Department. “While we had a record number of jointly enrolled students during the 2019-20 academic year, we still have work to do.”

All public meetings are back to being virtual amid rise of delta variant

The city is participating in a study of wastewater facilities nationwide to better understand the spread of COVID-19 and inform future pandemic response.

While making the renewal process safer in the pandemic for driver’s license holders and Iowa DOT staff, the extension also opened a window for scammers trying to steal people’s identity.

Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann says Democrat Liz Mathis voted against ‘largest tax cut in Iowa history.’

State employee and visitation data show a ranger force of 55 has been slashed to 35 since 1995. Viewed in proportion to skyrocketing visitations, that cutback appears devastating: The ranger force now is down to 1 ranger for every 474,286 park visits from the 1995 ratio of 1 to 217,700.