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Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday indicated she would likely sign into law a ban on transgender girls from competing in girls athletics in Iowa, should state lawmakers send such a bill to her.

Public K-12 schools in Iowa are in line for a 2.5 percent increase in state funding under a proposal that cleared the Iowa Legislature on Monday and is on its way to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.

The proposal passed through a streamlined legislative process Tuesday in the Iowa Senate, leaving it just a few legislative steps away from the governor’s pen.

The Collective PAC, which works to increase Black Americans’ engagement in politics, endorsed Deidre DeJear’s campaign for governor.

Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday that “everything is on the table” when it comes to three competing tax plans that will ultimately have to become one.

The feedback from various business groups, conservative tax policy organizations, and water quality and environmental advocates was not unanimous, but certainly largely in support of Republican state legislators’ varied proposals to lower the state tax on income to a single rate; reduce the state tax on businesses; and create a shift in taxes that provides funding for the long-starved state fund for conservation and water quality projects.

Republican leaders in both the Senate and House have said they expect to move quickly on the legislative process for their respective plans, likely starting each next week.

The line of succession plan for when an Iowa governor is no longer in office would be clarified under a proposed amendment to the state constitution.

To Alex Glenn, the director of human resources for Generation Next child development centers and preschools in Ventral Iowa, the best way to address what stakeholders have called a child care “crisis” is both simple and expensive. “I know this answer’s not going to appease a lot of people, but it’s money,” Glenn said.

Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ campaign reported raising nearly $4.8 million in donations in 2021. Her highest profile Democratic challenger, Deidre DeJear, reported raising nearly $287,000.

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ re-election campaign announced that it raised nearly $3.8 million in 2021 and finished the year with nearly $4.8 million its account. She faces re-election this year.

In four years, every Iowan’s income would be taxed at 4 percent under a new proposal from Gov. Kim Reynolds, who introduced her proposed flat tax during her annual condition of the state address to the Iowa Legislature this past week. Flat taxes have their fair share of both supporters and critics.

Educators in Iowa have been relaying their concerns with opening-day remarks made by Republican Iowa Senate President Jake Chapman, who accused teachers of having a “sinister agenda” regarding books in school libraries, Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday.

A four-year transition to a flat state income tax rate of 4 percent, shorting the time Iowans could claim jobless benefits and a new plan for devoting public K-12 for private school tuition are among the proposals introduced Tuesday night by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in her charge to state legislators.

Promising new leadership built on hard work, inclusion and plans to “restore” Iowa, small-business owner and political activist Deidre DeJear on Saturday officially launched her 2022 bid to be the state’s next governor.