
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.
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.
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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)
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