Private booksellers and lawmakers are pushing legislation that would eliminate sales tax from all required instructional materials at Iowa’s postsecondary institutions.
At the University of Iowa, administrators...
First Amendment rights are up for debate in the Iowa Statehouse amid a controversial court case around religious liberty.
Senate Study Bill 1099, a bill addressing First Amendment rights and regulations...
Gun legislation moving through the Iowa Legislature could allow firearms to be carried in school parking lots and county courthouses.
A Senate study bill  that was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Iowa City Democrats and Republicans gathered on Tuesday in two separate events to watch President Donald Trump deliver his second State of the Union Address on the heels of the longest government shutdown...
A state Senate concurrent resolution is moving its way up through subcommittees before potentially being sent as a resounding message from the Iowa Senate in support of limiting student-loan interest rates.
The resolution introduced...
Emily Wangen, Politics Reporter
• February 2, 2019
A bill in the state Legislature that aims to end tenure for professors at Iowa’s three public universities has cleared one legislative hurdle after a Senate education subcommittee approved it Jan. 30....
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...
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...
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...
Emily Wangen, Politics Reporter
• January 22, 2019
With 137,000 Iowans living with chronic and serious mental illness and approximately 220 practicing psychiatrists, Iowa psychiatrists hope a new proposal from Iowa’s governor will bring more psychiatric...
