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🌽Cornhole Champions #7 – Condition of the State (with Gov. Kim Reynolds)

🌽Cornhole Champions #7 – Condition of the State (with Gov. Kim Reynolds)

By Zachary Oren Smith, Amie Rivers

January 16, 2025

Toss some bags and talk through the governor’s priorities for new Iowa laws. Bright ideas: Iowa DOGE, paying childcare workers more, banning cell phones, and pots of beans.

🌽Cornhole Champions #7 – Condition of the State (with Gov. Kim Reynolds) by Zachary Oren Smith

Toss some bags and talk through the governor’s priorities for new Iowa laws. Bright ideas: Iowa DOGE, paying childcare workers more, banning cell phones, and pots of beans.

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Once again, Reynolds has been mum about her priorities for the Legislature. The rough strokes of her plan finally got a public recounting Tuesday with the Condition of the State address. To a packed Iowa House floor and repeated standing ovations, Gov. Kim Reynolds rattled through childcare and energy, Medicaid regulations and cancer research.

On this episode of Cornhole Champions, host Zachary Oren Smith chats with Iowa Starting Line’s community editor Amie Rivers about important takeaways form the governor’s proposals.

Cornhole Champions is a weekly podcast powered by Iowa Starting Line with music by Avery Mossman. We are a proud member of the Iowa Writers Collaborative. For more, check out its roundup of local writers.

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  • 1st Story – Read Gov. Kim Reynolds full speech. (Iowa Starting Line)
  • 2nd Story – Child care gaps in rural America threaten to undercut small communities (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
  • 3rd Story – March of Dimes report on maternity care deserts in the US. (March of Dimes)
  • 4th Story – Quad-Cities schools restrict cell phone use to recapture learning time. (The Quad-City Times)
  • Zachary Oren Smith

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    Zachary Oren Smith is your friendly neighborhood reporter. He leads Starting Line’s political coverage where he investigates corruption, housing affordability and the future of work. For nearly a decade, he’s written award-winning stories for Iowa Public Radio, The Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press-Citizen. Send your tips on hard news and good food to [email protected].

  • Amie Rivers

    Amie Rivers is Starting Line's community editor, labor reporter and newsletter snarker-in-chief. Previously, she was an award-winning journalist at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; now, she very much enjoys making TikToks and memes. Send all story tips and pet photos to [email protected] and sign up for our newsletter here.

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