Hoping to bring down tuition and boost the legal uses of medical marijuana, University of Iowa senior Patrick Wronkiewicz is running as a Republican for an Iowa Senate seat that represents the university...
Now approaching his 20th year in the Iowa Senate, Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, seeks a sixth term representing Iowa City and environs.
Tackling the expansion of medical cannabis, education funding,...
Mike Naig, Iowa’s acting agriculture secretary, says he brings experience and passion gleaned from his time as deputy to his predecessor to the forefront of his election campaign.
Naig was sworn in...
The last three months have been a whirlwind of fundraising and spending for Iowa gubernatorial candidates, according to campaign finance reports released Oct. 19. The documents reveal record-high contributions...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said she would support allowing access to birth control without a prescription.
In a debate Oct. 17 in Sioux City, Reynolds unveiled the plan when moderators directed...
Iowa secretary of agriculture candidate Tim Gannon wants the state to remain a leader in agriculture.
The 42-year-old Democratic challenger is running against Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig,...
Sarah Watson, Politics Reporter
• October 16, 2018
A government financial service on Tuesday estimated that the state’s revenue will grow in 2019 by 4.9 percent. That’s nearly 3 points higher than the actual revenue growth between 2017 and 2018. In...
Sarah Watson, Politics Reporter
• October 15, 2018
Democratic candidate Deidre DeJear hopes to engage voters with initiatives such as automatic voter registration in her run for Iowa’s chief commissioner of elections.
In the June primary, she became...
Secretary of State Paul Pate is running for re-election because he believes it’s important to have continuity in the work he has begun.
The 60-year-old Republican candidate is running for a third term...
DES MOINES — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised a slew of Iowa Republican candidates and told a crowd of approximately 1,000 attendees “good people have to stand up” in a...
Most students in Iowa won’t be able to use their student IDs to verify their identity at the polls during a period in politics in which groups are trying to encourage young voters to turn out in masses....
