James Q. Lynch

DES MOINES – The Iowa House checked off a few more budget bills during another day of stop-and-go action Wednesday. …

DES MOINES – After taking an overnight break, the Iowa House finished work on a $1.8 billion health and human …

DES MOINES – Legislation to name the Cedar Rapids Post Office to honor an Eastern Iowa soldier killed in Afghanistan …

DES MOINES – Three dozen Republican legislators are calling on Democratic Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller to withdraw from an …

DES MOINES – April showers fell on the Statehouse Monday as storm clouds formed under the Golden Dome. Lawmakers began …

JOHNSTON – Assessing Iowans’ economic well-being may be as simple as looking at their addresses. Iowa’s larger cities – Cedar …

DES MOINES – Key House and Senate appropriators warned that budgets totaling nearly $1 billion aren’t enough to prevent to …

DES MOINES — Although they agreed on the need to raise the minimum wage and protect the rights of LGBTs …

DES MOINES – It’s taken two years, but Ruth Lapointe on Wednesday finally saw legislation signed making it easier to …

DES MOINES – Legislation providing what lawmakers called ‘basic oversight” for children’s residential facilities cleared the Iowa House 74-24 on …

DES MOINES – Working with a funding increase of less than one-half of 1 percent for the coming fiscal year, …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The race for the Democratic nomination in Iowa’s U.S. House 1st District moves to television today with …

DES MOINES – Although Iowa’s public universities will see almost $5 million more in state funding for the next budget …

DES MOINES — Although it may not be a realistic hope, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller still hopes Supreme Court …

DES MOINES – If millennials ran the Iowa Legislature there would be less debate about social issues and more emphasis …