Clearly, cooler heads were not prevailing as the Legislature returned this week. Republican Senate President Jake Chapman set the tone.
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Clearly, cooler heads were not prevailing as the Legislature returned this week. Republican Senate President Jake Chapman set the tone.
After 46 years in Washington, it is time to consider what his legacy will be.
To pass good legislation, your legislators need to hear from you. Despite what the pessimists will tell you, they want to hear from you.
Government is a blunt instrument and state and federal officials are using it to whack us from both sides of the COVID-19 vaccine debate.
As Gov. Kim Reynolds and legislative Republicans return to the Statehouse, their workforce crisis and abandonment of rural Iowa will only grow worse with more tax cuts for Des Moines millionaires
Members of both parties are abusing the proxy voting system — not because of the virus, but because it is inconvenient to show up for work
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