State Government

Providers in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Mason City, Oskaloosa and Sioux City will receive a total of over $10 million to expand or improve facilities and develop sober-living housing options.

Attorney says denial violates First Amendment

Also in the Capitol Notebook: Iowa’s unemployment, labor force participation rate ticks up

State investigators found that two jails restrained inmates in chairs for excessive amounts of time. One jail used the restraints punitively, and the other confined someone who was having a mental health crisis.

Cedar Rapids school board meets with lawmakers to discuss preschool, cell phone bans and other priorities in advance of the upcoming session of the Iowa Legislature.

State agency officials and legislative leaders continued to hurl accusations at each other over the state’s oversight of the Judicial Branch operations

Also, state says school for troubled boys reaches ‘substantial compliance’ with oversight

State officials pointed to a section of the memorandum of understanding that bars displays at the Capitol if they are considered obscene.

Chris Cournoyer, a former state lawmaker from Le Claire, was sworn in Monday as Iowa’s 48th lieutenant governor.

Cournoyer, a Republican from LeClaire, is serving her second term in the Iowa Senate.

Gov. Kim Reynolds in May signed into law a plan to overhaul and combine Iowa’s delivery system for mental and behavioral health services — which advocates hope will improve access for patients.

The Iowa Revenue Estimating Conference projects slightly better state revenue numbers than it did in October, but revenue still is expected to fall short of current state spending levels.