Emily Wangen, Politics Reporter
• February 1, 2019
Feb. 5 update: This article has been updated with exact times and locations of Cory Booker's Iowa stops.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., will visit Iowa City at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at an Iowa City home as part...
Higher-education leaders and University of Iowa officials, students, and organizations added public comments requesting more flexibility in proposed changes in how federally funded educational institutions...
Roughly two months after President Trump and leaders from Canada and Mexico signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Iowa agriculture experts say the damage done by steel and aluminum tariffs...
As Congress emerged from the longest government shutdown in history, members of Iowa's congressional delegation support measures that aim to end shutdowns permanently.
The flurry of legislation comes...
Emily Wangen, Politics Reporter
• January 29, 2019
Presidents of the state Board of Regents universities — Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa — met with Iowa lawmakers at the state capitol in Des Moines...
Emily Wangen, Politics Reporter
• January 28, 2019
Despite Monday being the first day back for many federal employees in Iowa, community organizers continue to help workers affected by the 35-day shutdown until a regular pay schedule resumes.
To help...
Iowa will have seen two California Democrats eyeing the presidency by the end of this wintery week. U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell met with Linn County Democrats on Sunday, a day before Sen. Kamala Harris will...
Iowa legislators have filed a bill that, should it pass, will require public-school students statewide to learn how to responsibly manage their money.
In the past, legislators have attempted to implement...
The 2018 election featured decade-high youth voter turnout rates for a midterm election and young Iowa voters surged the polls in higher rates than nationally, as revealed in a Jan. 9 report from the...
Hawkeye Dreamers will not have to worry about leaving the U.S. for at least several more months after the Supreme Court on Tuesday took no action on a case concerning the legality of the Trump administration’s...
A District 5C Court judge struck down a part of the 2017 voter-ID law that prevented Iowa county auditors from using an existing voter database to verify voters' identity.
The bill, which was signed...
UPDATE Feb. 2: The legislation recently passed a three-member Senate Education subcommittee — the first procedural hurdle to becoming a state law. From there, the Senate Education Committee will need...
