Government & Politics

She told a radio audience Tuesday she expects to join other states in challenging a Biden administration directive requiring employers with 100 or more employees to mandate that all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or else undergo weekly testing, once the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues its emergency temporary standard.

The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday as voters cast their ballots in Iowa’s city and school board elections.

Rather than speculate about who the GOP nominee for president will be, Pence told WHO Radio that conservatives need to spend their energy to win control of Congress first, “and we’ll let the future take care of itself.”

Senator calls for full accounting of how and where our United State taxpayers’ dollars are being spent on “gain of function” research in China.

The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.

Iowa OSHA has fined Agri Star Meat and Poultry plant in Postville more than $28,000 for violations found after a February explosion that injured two employees.

The updated proposal coming before the commission on Thursday is scaled back from previous plans and devotes nearly three times more land to the park.

With policy changes to unemployment benefits yet to result in a boost to workforce numbers in Iowa, businesses continue to search for ways to fill jobs and to keep employees they already have -- many now raising wages, offering bonuses and adding perks.