Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

The Glenwood Resource Center, home to 152 residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will be closed in 2024, state leaders announced Thursday.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: ballot questions, no answers; Democratic senate primary – it’s over; and the Golden Dome of Wisdom.

Twenty people lost their lives to domestic violence in Iowa in 2021, the most in a decade.

Glenwood Resource Center, the state-operated facility for Iowans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has been under scrutiny from the federal justice department. State leaders announced Thursday it will close in 2024.

The bill calls for Iowa to adopt LEAD-K, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of deaf or hard-of-hearing children’s experiences in language learning and to work toward school readiness and sufficient language skills by providing access to both American Sign Language and English.

If no Democrats in the Senate vote to confirm Erik Helland’s nomination to the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board, the nomination will fail.

A bill to safeguard residents of mobile home parks against rapid rent and fee increases, and well as adding protections against evictions, passed the Iowa House on Tuesday night despite criticism it had become too watered down to help tenants much.

Democrats and Republicans praise “scrappy” Bolkcom

Lawmakers express frustration with lack of progress despite years of proposals and fruitless debates on how best to modernize the four-decade-old nickel deposit law.

Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat seeking re-election, joins many Republicans and ethanol industry leaders in calling for the Biden administration to utilize E15 to ease gas price pressures on consumers.

A bill waiting for Gov. Kim Reynolds to sign into law would strip local city councils of regulating the sale of fireworks, frustrating efforts of cities like Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to crack down on the consumer explosives in response to citizen complaints and a rise in injuries.

On one side are investors who want to deliver CO2 from Iowa ethanol plants to sequestration sites in other states. In an unusual pairing, they’ve been joined by some labor unions. On the other side, are “unusual bedfellows” — environmentalists, farmers, landowners and property rights advocates as well as opponents of large-scale farming and ethanol — calling for the Iowa Utilities Board to reject eminent domain for pipeline construction.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: historic week in the Legislature, ballot challenges, and Trump “more likely than not” committed obstruction.

There appears to be some significant ground to cover before the Republican-led Iowa House and Senate reach an agreement on those issues.

Previously, the House passed its own version, which differs in many key ways