Government & Politics

Catherine Johnson, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa, says requirements in the settlement agreement will lead to a state children’s mental health care system that ‘addresses the needs of children’

Jeff Kaufmann has been Iowa Republicans’ state party leader since 2015. In that decade, Iowa Republicans have gone from sharing control of state and federal government in Iowa with Democrats to near unfettered control and historic majorities.

Committee chair thinks that’s ‘a major problem’

Also, a special election has been set to fill a vacant Iowa House seat after the death of a state lawmaker

People in a politically mixed suburb of Iowa's largest metro area are well-informed on the developments of the massive effort to slash spending and defund federal agencies. Unlike their top elected officials, several of them are expressing concerns.

Also, 3 people charged after protests at Iowa Capitol

The prospects for proposed carbon capture pipelines in Iowa remains unknown; more certain is the will of advocates and Republican lawmakers in the Iowa House to prevent those pipelines from using eminent domain to secure Iowa land.

Lawyers for a book publisher that is challenging Iowa’s book ban law called it a “statewide, one-size-fits-all statute that eliminates discretion by school librarians,” while lawyers for the state characterized it as an appropriate and lawful attempt by lawmakers to control the materials publicly funded schools are offering their students.