James Q. Lynch

It’s “absolutely wrong to depict violence against another member of Congress ... There's no excuse or justification for that behavior and I won't defend that behavior.”

In Iowa, there are 1.4 job openings for each unemployed person, according to an analysis of employment data. With 1 percent population growth forecast, the problem is unlikely to go away.

Iowa City police alleged that on Oct. 4, Divia Carmelita Greer and an accomplice broke into the victim’s apartment, then assaulted her and her uncle, causing bodily injury.

Lawmaker believes “Iowans deserve clean water, great public education, and an affordable, high quality of living.”

Farmers have harvested 91 percent of corn for grain, which is four days ahead of the five-year average, and 97 percent of the soybean crop, according to the USDA.

One thing Mike Franken and Glenn Hurst agree on is the need to win back rural Iowa voters, who have trended Republican in recent elections. Both believe those voters will respond to proposals that address infrastructure, health care and the vialbility of their communities.

It’s neither socialism nor unreasonable for Iowans to seek faster broadband, more access to health care, sustainable wages to support themselves and families, DeJear says.

After more than a quarter of a century representing Iowa City, Rep. Mary Mascher has announced she will not seek re-election in 2022.

Let the political musical chairs begin now that the lines have been drawn to demarcate Iowa’s new congressional and legislative districts for the next decade beginning with the 2022 elections.

Bolkcom, who served on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, before being elected to the Iowa Senate in 1998, will not run for re-election in 2022. In the Legislature, he worked on anti-poverty and environmental issues.

But for Republicans, “our fight isn’t over,” Grassley said. “We’ve got to take back the Senate majority to get this economy back on track.”

But to get a gambling license, casino interests would have to persuade the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, which rejected proposals from Cedar Rapids in 2014 and 2017, citing its concerns that a casino in the state’s second-largest city would “cannibalize” the market, which includes casinos in Waterloo and Riverside, both within an hour’s drive from Cedar Rapids.

Rather than speculate about who the GOP nominee for president will be, Pence told WHO Radio that conservatives need to spend their energy to win control of Congress first, “and we’ll let the future take care of itself.”

Senator calls for full accounting of how and where our United State taxpayers’ dollars are being spent on “gain of function” research in China.

Plan didn’t address all of Republicans’ concerns, but both parties agree it meets the requirements of Iowa law and state constitution.