The law comes after last year’s FAFSA form was released three months late due to significant technical glitches in a new, simplified version of the form. The new form was a result of the FAFSA Simplification Act, which intended to expand the Federal Pell Grant to more students. Forms...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a joint letter Monday with 16 other Republican governors urging Congress to reauthorize the Farm Bill, which is the legislation that authorizes financial assistance programs for American farmers. Congress has failed to reauthorize the 2018...
Incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, wins Iowa’s 1st Congressional District after a recount confirmed her victory. Miller-Meeks secured her third term in the U.S. House with 50.1 percent of the vote, defeating Iowa City Democrat Christina Bohannan by less than...
Iowa’s revenues are expected to decrease by hundreds of millions of dollars in the next two fiscal years due to accelerated tax cuts passed by state legislators in the 2024 legislative session. The tax cuts were championed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, and...
Former U.S. Rep. James Leach, a Republican who represented southeast Iowa in Congress for 30 years, died at 82 on Wednesday. Leach, who was born in Davenport, was first elected to represent southeast Iowa in 1977 and served until 2007 after he was ousted from the seat by Democrat...
Coming home late from her election night watch party, Aime Wichtendahl, like many Americans, anxiously refreshed her phone for results. Her screen lit with the outcome. She had won a seat in Iowa’s House. Standing in her unlit living room past midnight, Wichtendahl...
In December 2023 in Cairo, Mazahir Salih saw suffering. There to find her mother who had just fled Sudan, Salih witnessed the lines of tired and hungry Sudanese refugees outside of the U.N. location in Sudan, all of them with the same hope — safety. The Sudanese refugees...
With former President Donald Trump on his way back to the White House after beating out Vice President Kamala Harris, University of Iowa campus political organizations are mixed about the results of the election. Campus conservatives are ecstatic about Trump’s rise...
A handful of University of Iowa students were among hundreds of poll workers who helped run dozens of election precincts in Johnson County on Election Day. The students, however, were getting class credit. The class focused on election administration and gave students hands-on...