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As state lawmakers consider tax cuts, an Iowa senator claims, “Data has long shown the states with low or no income tax grow more quickly than states with high, punitive tax rates.” Academic consensus is less certain.
After the pandemic accelerated declining membership trends, service organizations like Downtown Rotary and the Junior League are reevaluating how to recruit new members.
The most recent spike in COVID-19 cases brought an increase in patients at the emergency department, which has resulted in ambulance diversions and turning away patient transfers.
The Rapid Rehousing Project, run by the Iowa Finance Authority, will expand services offered by existing agencies, as well as work to reach individuals who might not have been eligible for assistance previously.
The Iowa Department of Human Services saw a 37 percent increase in dependent abuse reports from the first half of 2020 to the second half of 2021 with 5,800 cases.
Before it starts a new chapter, patrons reflect on decades of memories made at Basix as they hope future generations make the same memories in Cedar Rapids’ only remaining LGBTQ bar.
A look back at what’s been in the news in Iowa in the past week
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000.
Monarch Research is providing large private landowners with native trees to be planted this spring in the 2022 Planting Forward for Woodlands project. Interested landowners have from now until Feb. 18 to order trees in time for spring planting.
The U.S. defense secretary said in a letter to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds the federal defense department has the authority to require all service members --including those in the Iowa National Guard -- to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
A mother said she is “absolutely relieved” the parole board rescinded it’s decision to give early release to the man who fatally shot her son on the Ped Mall in Iowa City in 2017, but it’s “tiring to be a victim of crime because you are always having to fight.” She dreads the next parole hearing.
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