With the first legislative deadline passed, Iowa legislators’ focus will shift to include more tax and fiscal policy considerations
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With the first legislative deadline passed, Iowa legislators’ focus will shift to include more tax and fiscal policy considerations
A guide to public school alternatives.
The Marion City Council gave its permission Thursday for the city to begin the process of closing the Marion Airport runway by this summer. The move will effectively halt flights at the airport.
Lawyers for Cedar Rapids man accused of hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018 asked a judge to toss out the murder charge because evidence doesn’t support theories of the charge. The defense also wants to exclude evidence of drug activities.
“I am directing the institutions to pull down any current or archived web pages regarding diversity, equity, and/or inclusion,” regents President Sherry Bates said in a statement last month following continued criticism from Republican lawmakers upset with any evidence of diversity, equity and inclusion work across the public universities.
He and others worked together to forge and cash more than $13,000 worth of checks, with help from people recruited from homeless shelters and food banks, criminal complaints state.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, said she fully intends to continue hosting public town halls across northeast Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. She said her office is working on scheduling them, and will announce them in her newsletter.
An 18-year-old from North Liberty was arrested Thursday on charges that he possessed and distributed sexually explicit videos of children multiple times during the last four years.
The Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau recaps the first funnel deadline of the 2025 legislative session.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department has released the names of three people who were found dead Thursday in what police believe was a double murder/suicide.
The unions estimate about 7,000 federal employees live in Miller-Meeks' Southeastern Iowa congressional district, and about 20,000 live throughout the state.
Also, Republicans advance anti-'chemtrail' bill
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