Cedar Rapids native Austin Frerick says he will fight for a fair and progressive tax structure and to level the playing field for locally owned farms, restaurants and businesses so they can compete against foreign corporations.
Jack Whitver, the Republican Senate majority leader from Ankeny, said he believes the proposal aligns with the tax plan that Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed earlier this month.
Among the proposals this year are bills that would require cities to prove there is a public safety need for where they place traffic cameras, and limit enforcement to speeding violations of 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit and cap the amount of revenue an agency can generate from tickets.
Requests for critical stress management debriefings tripled in 2021, Director Stephan Bayens said Wednesday.
Four Iowans opposed to an 11,600-head feedlot in northeast Iowa filed an Iowa Senate ethics complaint against state Sen. Dan Zumbach, saying Zumbach used his position to pressure state employees to approve the feedlot owned by his son-in-law.
The push back from stakeholders was not as severe in this, the second attempt by Gov. Kim Reynolds to create a statewide ethanol requirement.
The line of succession plan for when an Iowa governor is no longer in office would be clarified under a proposed amendment to the state constitution.
The records, requested by the Iowa Capital Dispatch in April 2021, pertain to an auction that was staged last year to benefit Des Moines Christian School.
Iowans’ income from retirement programs would no longer be taxed by the state under a legislative proposal from Iowa House Republicans.
Prison barbers don’t have a license when they cut other offenders’ hair and they often aren’t training under a licensed instructor, but barbering apprentices outside the prison system must have licensed instructors. One Des Moines barber says it’s not fair.
To Alex Glenn, the director of human resources for Generation Next child development centers and preschools in Ventral Iowa, the best way to address what stakeholders have called a child care “crisis” is both simple and expensive. “I know this answer’s not going to appease a lot of people, but it’s money,” Glenn said.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast, Biden, one year in; Reynolds rolls in cash; a river runs through the Hinson-Mathis contest.
Iowa governor says she’s “going to run like I'm 10 down” despite $4 million lead in fundraising.
Responding to increased consumer demand for custom meats, the Iowa Economic Development Authority awarded 15 grants Friday to small-scale meat processors.
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