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...
Despite criticisms of the $12 billion federal aid for farmers given in the midst of an ongoing trade dispute with China, Iowa soybean farmers say the package filled gaps created by market uncertainty....
A shortage of health-care providers and resources has contributed to a nearly nonexistent children’s mental health system in Iowa, leaving concerned parents and kids without clear avenues for help.
One...
A 5th District Court judge struck down Iowa's 2018 law that would ban most abortions after a heartbeat is detected.
Fifth District Court Judge Michael Huppert ruled the law to be unconstitutional on...
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds remains confident that the state of Iowa’s economy is strong.
After two years of dropping commodity prices and a turbulent trade war throwing inconsistency into Iowa’s...
