It has been 10 weeks since Gov. Kim Reynolds first proclaimed a disaster emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic. …
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It has been 10 weeks since Gov. Kim Reynolds first proclaimed a disaster emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic. …
A couple of weeks ago, we called on Iowa’s state lawmakers to get back to work after largely sitting idle …
Last week, despite being exposed to COVID-19 by his press secretary, Vice President Mike Pence made a visit to Iowa, …
Without an explanation, Gov. Kim Reynolds recently started leaving out daily COVID-19 fatality numbers at her news conferences. Her office …
As death rates from COVID-19 rise, the state is beginning to open back up. And with that the expectation is …
Another day, another devastating new uptick in Iowa’s COVID-19 figures. Several times in the past few weeks, Gov. Kim Reynolds …
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the fragility of America’s food supply chain. Iowa and neighboring states have seen a …
This week, Dr. Mohammad Rehman the medical director of Glenwood Resource Center, a state institution for disabled Iowans, stepped down …
There are two things we know are necessary components of a responsible plan to roll back coronavirus closures – a …
State revenues are beginning to show the strain of an economic downturn spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic. But cities also …
Gov. Kim Reynolds has spoken repeatedly in the past two weeks about plans to reopen Iowa from the coronavirus shutdown. …
In a place where people love to tout high marks on state-by-state rankings, this one might have slipped by you …
On April 15, a group of Midwest governors announced that they were forming a coalition to coordinate on reopening their …
Every day we hear the latest COVID-19 numbers, new cases, hospitalization and deaths. But the number of Iowans who deserve …
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