This year, lawmakers passed, and Gov. Kim Reynolds signed, more than 180 new laws affecting policy areas such as education, taxes, agriculture and health care.
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This year, lawmakers passed, and Gov. Kim Reynolds signed, more than 180 new laws affecting policy areas such as education, taxes, agriculture and health care.
Earlier this month, the Rachel Graber and Lacey Kruse found themselves again in lockstep — crossing a commencement stage for Kirkwood’s pinning ceremony. Among the 63 spring nursing grads, Graber and Kruse were the first mother-daughter duo in recent history.
A new state grant program to expand existing summer food assistance programs for Iowa students in low-income families received 43 applications, according to state records obtained by The Gazette.
Fierce tornados in Iowa on Tuesday caused extensive damage and an unknown number of injuries in at least one rural town and took down several 250-foot wind turbines.
Google also has proposed a $576M center for Cedar Rapids.
Also in Campaign Almanac: Progressive group issues endorsements for Johnson County supervisors.
The penalty stems from a lawsuit that 13 prison inmates, then housed at the Anamosa State Penitentiary, filed in 2018. The inmates alleged the state was violating their constitutional rights by denying them access to magazines or other materials with nudity or sexually explicit content.
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for much of the state of Iowa today, warning that it is a “particularly dangerous situation.”The phrase is specific wording that’s used in rare situations when “long-lived, strong and violent tornadoes are possible,” according to the NWS.
Heavy rain Monday and Tuesday is expected to cause minor flooding this week in Marengo, which has been at the center of Iowa’s drought in recent summers.
An Iowa City man was arrested last week on charges that, while armed with a gun, he broke into a house and threatened to shoot someone inside.
The company had already announced that 308 Waterloo employees would lose their jobs in late April.
Johnson County supervisors are paid about $90,000 a year and serve four-year terms. With three seats up for election, the majority of the five-member board faces county voters this year.
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