U.S. District Court judge rejects a $4.3 billion settlement, including Iowa’s estimated $25 million share, that would have been used for opioid abuse prevention, treatment and recovery efforts.
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U.S. District Court judge rejects a $4.3 billion settlement, including Iowa’s estimated $25 million share, that would have been used for opioid abuse prevention, treatment and recovery efforts.
Iowa property owners who ask to remove their names from online property searches to conceal their address may keep their names confidential under a ruling the Iowa Supreme Court published Friday.
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office on Friday announced a new system for handling open record requests, a day after three media organizations filed a lawsuit charging she has repeatedly violated the state’s open records laws by ignoring requests for government records, some for more than a year.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast, each of the hosts reviews their top-5 Iowa politics stories from 2021.
After heightened concerns about threats to public officials, a wrought iron fence has been installed around the perimeter of Terrace Hill in Des Moines.
Several Iowa media organizations and the ACLU of Iowa are suing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and her staff, charging they broke Iowa’s open records law by failing to provide records about the Iowa State Patrol’s border deployment, private fundraising at the governor’s residence, and Reynolds’ messages to meatpacking plant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, among other requests.
Most of us don’t know about the backroom deal that helped secure the interstate’s passage through Cedar Rapids, the alternate routes it could have taken or about the two people who died in the push to open the highway.
Liquor sales topped $400 million for the first time with a total of $415.8 million worth of products containing alcohol consumed during the 12 months that ran from July 1, 2020, until June 30 of this year, according to the latest annual report issued Tuesday by the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division.
The Virginia Beach Department of Public Health posted a statement Friday announcing Pedati would serve as the coastal city’s public health director beginning Dec. 10.
Changes to Iowa’s unemployment process --- including a doubling of the number of work searches a person must make in order to qualify for benefits --- will go into effect Jan. 9, the state announced Monday.
GOP calls for returning “over-collection” to taxpayers; Democrats call for investments in workforce training, affordable housing and child care, and paid family leave.
November gambling on professional and college sports — an activity that became legal in Iowa in August 2019 — pushed the wagering handle above $975 million for the current fiscal year and put Iowa within reach of $2 billion in betting for the calendar year.
Community support, population shifts and whether a new casino would take business away from others in the region are factors state regulators would consider to approve a new casino in the Cedar Rapids area.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: Iowa school boards banning books, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley's naughty list, Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand blinks, and Iowa Sen. Roby Smith runs for state treasurer.
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