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WATCH: Top Iowa Republican says legislators are taking property taxes ‘very seriously’
On day one of the legislative session, Iowa Senate Republicans proposed sweeping changes to the state's property tax system. Gov. Kim Reynolds...
WATCH: Working Americans don’t benefit from foreign wars. Billionaires do.
The US has intervened in Venezuela. Nathan Sage, a Marine and Army vet, says wars are costing funding that could go toward helping people living here.
WATCH: Iowans demand justice for Renee Nicole Good
Iowans around the state gathered this weekend to protest ICE and demand justice for Renee Nicole Good, a Minnesota mother of three shot and killed...
WATCH: Iowans stand in solidarity for Renee Nicole Good
Which side are you on? Political correspondent Zachary Oren Smith was at the ICE Out for Good rally in Iowa City. He talks about Renee Good’s last...
WATCH: An invisible tax: How renters subsidize property owners
Renters pay property taxes—it's just hidden in your rent. In 2013, Iowa gave apartment owners a tax break with a promise: they'd pass savings to...
WATCH: The working-class economic crisis is personal for Nathan Sage
Everything is expensive. That's not a policy abstraction. It hits home. Nathan Sage, in a raw moment, talks about how a downturn in the Iowa economy...
