Vacant buildings aren’t cheap to keep up, lawmakers found learned. An impetus for legislation in 2019 was learning the state was spending about $65,000 a year for upkeep at the former penitentiary at Fort Madison.
Now that we’ve tried all of these changes out for one election, let’s see how well they’ve performed.
Senate Republicans in the Iowa Legislature are formulating a “moon shot” tax-cut plan that would eventually eliminate the state’s personal income tax. But skeptics hungry for mission details worry the trick in engineering such an endeavor would be pulling off a successful landing that doesn’t crash and burn.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast, reporters discuss their top Iowa politics predictions for 2022.
No state has as many places to buy marijuana as Iowa has places to buy beer.
“Can’t just continue to throw money at it,” a lawmaker says, but another its a classic case of legislators “kicking the can down the road ...spending money on it as we're kicking it.”
Approaching her 28th and final year in the Iowa House, Mary Mascher promises to “continue to be as passionate about those issues that are important to me ... as I’ve been in the past.”
Senate Democrats will introduce legislation that would propose an amendment to the Iowa Constitution that would make marijuana legal.
Ten years after the Human Rights Campaign first rated cities nationwide on how inclusive they are to LGBTQ people, cities in Iowa have made big improvements. But with a state Legislature that introduces anti-LGBTQ bills each session, does it matter?
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast, each of the hosts reviews their top-5 Iowa politics stories from 2021.
Art Staed currently represents House 66, which covers northeast Cedar Rapids. The new district will encompass more than half the same territory as well as Hiawatha and Robins.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: Iowa school boards banning books, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley's naughty list, Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand blinks, and Iowa Sen. Roby Smith runs for state treasurer.
State Sen. Roby Smith says he will run for state treasurer in 2022 rather than seek re-election to the Iowa Legislature.
The books that have come under fire vary, but they typically feature characters or authors who are lesbian, gay, transgender or queer, and typically the person demanding the book be removed takes issue with passages that describe sexual acts.
Jack Whitver, the Republican Senate majority leader, announced he is running for re-election, but he will do so in a new legislative district.
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