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3 months ago
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Politics Notebook | Iowa House Lawmakers advance bill to allow felons to run for president

Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow felons to run for federal office to prevent former Pr...

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3 months ago
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Iowa lawmakers advance governor’s K-12 teacher reading literacy bill

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s proposal to revamp the state’s reading education program was advanced out of an Iowa Senate ...

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3 months ago
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Iowans speak on bill to define ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in Iowa code

Chanting from a raucous, boisterous crowd of protestors filled the Iowa Capitol on Monday as LGBTQ+ Iowans protested ...

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3 months ago
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Iowa lawmakers advance Reynolds’ proposal to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to expand Medicaid coverage for mothers and newborns gathered mixed responses from m...

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3 months ago
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Iowa lawmakers quickly advance Gov. Reynolds’ bill defining men, women

Iowa lawmakers quickly advanced Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s bill to legally define “men” and “women” in Iowa law on Tues...

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4 months ago
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Iowa House Democrats unveil plan to raise minimum wage by 2026

Iowa House Democrats released a series of four bills on Thursday aimed at bolstering wages and cutting costs for Iowa...

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4 months ago
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Politics Notebook | Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds introduces bill to legally define men, women

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds introduced a bill Thursday to define men and women in Iowa code. In a news release on Thursday...

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4 months ago
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Iowa Legislature split on governor’s AEA overhaul bill

Iowa House lawmakers tabled Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to overhaul Iowa’s nine Area Education Agencies followin...

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4 months ago
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Reynolds pushes amended bill as hearing on AEA overhaul scheduled

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has doubled down on her proposal to overhaul Iowa’s Area Education Agencies despite concerns f...

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4 months ago
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National Democrats target two Iowa U.S. House districts to regain control

National Democrats are targeting two Republican-held U.S. House seats in Southern Iowa in their quest to retake contr...

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4 months ago
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State reports almost 17,000 students used vouchers for private school in 2023

According to enrollment data released by the Iowa Department of Education on Friday, 16,757 students used Iowa’s new ...

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4 months ago
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Iowa lawmakers advance hefty fines for open meetings law violations

A panel of Iowa lawmakers unanimously agreed to advance a bill on Wednesday to drastically increase the fines for vio...

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