Last Thursday marked the start of tax season, when Americans will spend a cumulative $31 billion and 1.7 billion hours to provide documentation of their income and earnings to the government — information the government already has.
Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered flags lowered to half-staff Monday to honor Bill Northey, former Iowa agriculture secretary and a U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary, who died at age 64.
During a news conference Monday at the Iowa Capitol, Reynolds repeated her criticism of how President Joe Biden’s has enforced federal immigration laws, and cast doubt that Congress will be able to pass border security legislation.
Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would expand the nine-member Board of Regents to include two “non-voting” members of the Legislature. It also would cap tuition rates across the public universities at 3 percent for undergraduate students.
“I think this should be high priority for Congress,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who has worked with a bipartisan group of governors to promote the program, said in a phone interview. “To many families, $30 a month is a big deal.”
Matthew Leeman ‘rose to the top’ of candidates to replace outgoing Superintendent Greg Batenhorst.
A former local union president pleaded guilty to bank fraud for embezzling money from the union to pay personal expenses, including a car loan and retail shopping. He faces up to 30 years in federal prison.
A Marion man was the last of 12 sentenced in a large Cedar Rapids meth trafficking ring. They were bringing in shipments from California and distributing to customers in the Cedar Rapids area from 2017 through 2022.
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Responding to 10 diversity, equity, and inclusion-related recommendations Iowa’s Board of Regents issued in November, Iowa State University has disseminated a directive barring anyone on campus from making students, employees, applicants, or visitors “disclose their pronouns.”
The new case was filed on behalf of Cynthia McSweeney of Tama, who alleges that in March 2022, while the officer was at a McSweeny’s home investigating an alleged crime committed by her son, the officer grabbed her right arm and forced her to the ground breaking her glasses and bruising her body.
Historians are discovering new information about the Underground Railroad “all the time.”
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