Also in the Capitol Notebook, Iowa is partnering with a nonprofit organization that provides mentoring and STEM education for high-achieving math students in the state.
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Also in the Capitol Notebook, Iowa is partnering with a nonprofit organization that provides mentoring and STEM education for high-achieving math students in the state.
Iowa nonprofits that provide support and services to Iowans with complex mental health challenges say they are alarmed and concerned by plans to end a state program that provides holistic care coordination for children and adults with mental health conditions, with little notice given.
According to an email sent by the Department of Corrections, the state will issue a request for proposals “soon” to seek a private company to provide health care services in the state’s prisons, potentially impacting roughly 200 nurses, psychiatrists and other corrections health care workers.
Cedar Rapids first responders saw a significant drop in fireworks-related citations and calls for service this year in June and the first week of July than in 2024, but an increase in fires after state legislation was passed earlier this year preventing cities from banning fireworks on July 3 and 4.
When it was time for 7-year-old Mason Sieck to start hospice care, there weren’t many options for him in Iowa. Now, four years after his death, his family is working to build the state’s first pediatric palliative care center.
A Cedar Rapids-based home-health agency accused of using falsified records and billing for care services that were never documented has engaged in “fraudulent practices,” a state board has concluded.
The task force would make recommendations about adding nuclear energy to Iowa’s energy portfolio.
Just weeks before the University of Iowa was set to go to trial over a dispute with its private utilities operator — who sued the campus in 2023, just three years into a $1.165 billion 50-year contract — the two sides have reached a settlement.
Under a new law, all government officials in Iowa elected or appointed after July 1 — with a few exceptions — must undergo training on public meetings and open records
While a new Iowa law that strips gender identity protections from the Iowa Civil Rights Act went into effect Tuesday, the ACLU of Iowa is reminding Iowans a number of other civil right protections remain for trans people.
Also in The Gazette’s Capitol Notebook, Canadian National Railway announces $38 million investment in Iowa
Community college leaders and advocates say they are feeling confused and left out of conversations that led to the list of eligible career fields for the Last-Dollar Scholarship program being cut down by one-third.
A federal judge granted a 2-week pause while a lawsuit is considered over a new state law that addresses pharmacy benefit managers, rural pharmacies and prescription drug costs
A divided Iowa Supreme Court last week upheld two laws restricting firearm access, one related to domestic violence protective orders and the other to possession of illegal drugs while carrying a weapon.
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