This week on the On Iowa Politics podcast, we dig deep into recently published state campaign fundraising reports, everybody’s property tax flags have now been planted, and we hear from our columnists on the Cedar Rapids Schools budget situation.
Iowans would be able to purchase ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine without a prescription under legislation advanced in the Iowa legislature Thursday, a move that medical professionals say could harm Iowans.
The bill adds elected officials to an existing program that allows police officers, judges and other officials to have their home addresses redacted from records with county assessors and county recorders.
Iowa health care providers, facilities and insurance companies could refuse medical care based on moral and ethical — not just religious — objections under a House-passed bill advanced by Senate Republicans.
Minority-party House Democrats unveiled their legislative proposal for improving Iowa’s water quality on Thursday.
Two months from the launch of the University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom’s inaugural classes, its interim director this week shared details about what will be taught with lawmakers who have become increasingly interested and involved in curricular matters across Iowa’s public universities.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to dissolve the state’s long-standing Early Childhood Iowa structure and replace it with a district-based system modeled after Iowa’s behavioral health and disability services overhaul.
Proposal would require the Iowa DOT to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, to confirm citizenship for those seeking or renewing driver's licenses.
Iowa House Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a property tax proposal that would cap local government revenue growth at 2 percent, create a $25,000 residential exemption, and require voter approval for more property-tax-backed debt.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says bill proposed Wednesday could help solve cold cases, but legal justice advocates have privacy concerns
Iowa landowners could not be forced to accept a carbon dioxide pipeline on their land against their wishes under legislation approved Wednesday by the Iowa House of Representatives.
Bill Dotzler has served in the Iowa Legislature since 1997 and the Iowa Senate since 2003.
Iowa middle and high school students would no longer be allowed classroom instruction or school-sponsored programming that references sexual orientation or what state law defines as “gender theory” under legislation advanced Wednesday by Senate Republicans.
Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation to keep offenders behind bars longer and expand Iowa’s sex offender registry, but corrections officials and advocates warn the proposals could worsen overcrowding, reduce parole supervision and create sentence-calculation errors that undermine public safety.
Also, proposed legislation would prohibit fire sprinkler requirements for townhouses
Daily Newsletters