Local governments will welcome 2021 with all too familiar obstacles. Elected officials at the local level have complained for years …
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Local governments will welcome 2021 with all too familiar obstacles. Elected officials at the local level have complained for years …
Iowa’s state canvassing board has declared Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks the winner in Iowa’s 2nd District congressional race, edging Democrat Rita …
Lost among all the state and national stories we’ve been following was the Cedar Rapids City Council’s decision earlier this …
By general consensus, 2020 has been the worst year in recent memory. The world has been devastated by a deadly …
Incredibly, eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, the state’s data still lacks credibility. Last week, The Gazette’s Erin Jordan reported …
In televised remarks this week, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced stronger mask and public gathering restrictions meant to impede the spread …
President-elect Joe Biden faces considerable political obstacles to enacting the most ambitious pieces of his agenda. The biggest hurdle, pending …
Iowa should adopt a set of policies to diminish racial bias in policing, according to a committee appointed by the …
This week, more than eight months after Iowa’s first COVID-19 case was diagnosed, Gov. Kim Reynolds issued her first-ever statewide …
When election night ended Republicans held an even larger majority in the Iowa House, likely 59-41, and held their already …
Eastern Iowa will send two new members to Congress next year. The state is trending red, but there’s still a …
This is being written on Election Day long before the polls close and hours before we know what actually transpired …
Iowa could set a record for voter participation in this election, but tens of thousands of Iowans with recently reinstated …
By the middle of this week, more than 600 Iowans were hospitalized with COVID-19, a record that breaks almost daily …
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