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House Study Bill 587 includes requiring the daily singing of the “Star Spangled Banner,” and teaching about it along with …
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Ari Davis was brought to the United States when she was 3 years old. She remembers how hard her dad …
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For one brief moment, it seemed as if the Legislature knew it had gone too far — that repealing gender …
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In 2022, the CATO Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors ranked Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds the most fiscally …
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