Iowa will receive roughly $5 billion over five years in new federal funding under the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.
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Iowa will receive roughly $5 billion over five years in new federal funding under the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: 1st District developments, redistricting sends lawmakers on the move, and infrastructure bill impact.
IOWA CITY (AP) — An Iowa judge accused of
The U.S. Commerce Department has awarded Iowa a $5.3 million grant to pay for tourism and outdoor recreation marketing to encourage out-of-state people to visit Iowa after the pandemic.
After more than a quarter of a century representing Iowa City, Rep. Mary Mascher has announced she will not seek re-election in 2022.
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The challenging parties assert the authority to compel vaccinations lies with states, not the federal government.
A defiant Gov. Kim Reynolds promised “immediate” legal action to a Biden administration rule requiring larger businesses to have their employees get COVID-19 vaccinations or face regular workplace testing.
Bolkcom, who served on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, before being elected to the Iowa Senate in 1998, will not run for re-election in 2022. In the Legislature, he worked on anti-poverty and environmental issues.
Reynolds said the state will make available $10 million in grants for expanding current child care facilities or building new ones, and distribute $200 million in federal grants to child care facilities that suffered economically during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She told a radio audience Tuesday she expects to join other states in challenging a Biden administration directive requiring employers with 100 or more employees to mandate that all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or else undergo weekly testing, once the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues its emergency temporary standard.
The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.
Iowa OSHA has fined Agri Star Meat and Poultry plant in Postville more than $28,000 for violations found after a February explosion that injured two employees.
With policy changes to unemployment benefits yet to result in a boost to workforce numbers in Iowa, businesses continue to search for ways to fill jobs and to keep employees they already have -- many now raising wages, offering bonuses and adding perks.
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