State Government

Republicans are eyeing property taxes, while local officials express a need to proceed with caution.

The longest-serving state attorney general in U.S. history is winding down his final term after losing his reelection after four decades in office.

Brenna Bird, a Republican county attorney who defeated longtime Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, in the November election, requested the resignations Dec. 22, according to letters obtained by Iowa Capital Dispatch.

As of November, the number of cardholders in Iowa’s program stood at 14,466, close to double the 7,865 enrolled patients in December 2021, according to a new report from the Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Board, which administers the program.

Recurring campaign donations without the donor’s active consent would be illegal, as would any hand-held use of a mobile device while driving. And pointing a laser at an aircraft would become a crime.

It is the first time in at least a decade that money available from the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund has been depleted, and it likely will remain so until this summer.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Is Iowa a red state now?

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Mariannette Miller-Meeks has an interesting new address and potentially a primary opponent, Joni Ernst is censured, and Scott Brennan provides his caucus post-mortem.

This Iowa state lawmaker has been involved in multiple historic legislative leadership moves; What does she say about how Iowa Democrats can bounce back?

Total state revenue will be just more than $9.62 billion in the current budget year, which is 1.9 percent less than the previous year, and $9.63 billion next year -- a marginal increase.

Summit, as well as representatives for CO2 pipeline companies Wolf Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 ventures, argued the materials, which the Iowa Utilities Board requested in July, were preempted by federal law.

Her move follows similar bans in other states and coincides with much broader legislation introduced Tuesday in Congress that would ban all transactions from any social media company in or under the influence of China and Russia and others.