Concerned parents hope to get the Spirit Lake School District to reconsider its plan to arm and provide firearms training to 10 non-classroom staff members—although new information indicates teachers are being trained as well—as a deterrent to school shootings. A...
The voter registration of Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver (R-Ankeny/Grimes) is formally being challenged and a hearing will take place at 2 p.m. on Nov. 30 at the Polk County Election Office in Des Moines. The dispute stems from evidence showing Whitver...
Iowa Republicans appear to planning major reforms to the state’s education system in the next legislative session. Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley (R-New Hartford) announced on Wednesday the formation of a new, five-person Education Reform Committee, which is in...
A longtime Republican Iowa House member that Gov. Kim Reynolds helped defeat in a GOP primary against a pro-voucher Republican has returned the favor by endorsing Reynolds' Democratic opponent. Rep. Dave Maxwell (R-Gibson) endorsed gubernatorial candidate Deidre...
Corey Dion Lewis’ familial background is one of the things that inspired him to get involved in the health and wellness field. “Chronic disease was normal for me growing up,” he said. “Seeing my family struggle with diabetes [and] at the time not really...
One of the highest-ranking Republicans in the Iowa Senate may not actually live in the new district he wants to represent. Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver (R-Ankeny/Grimes) changed his voter registration to an apartment in Grimes to run for Senate District 23;...
Hannah Krause remembers how she felt on June 24. That was the day the US Supreme Court overturned a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion and allowed individual states—or possibly Congress—to make those decisions for them. Krause, a Des Moines business owner...
One of MacKenzie Bills' core childhood memories is of her family surviving on canned beans for about a year. Her father, Kenny, was a tire layer at the Firestone plant in Des Moines and a United Steelworkers Local 310 member. That local was part of a nationwide...
While you can’t read about any issues Jake Chapman supports or opposes on his campaign website—votejackchapman.com—his actions in the Iowa Senate paint a clear picture about what he cares about: Controlling women’s bodies, guns, and defunding/defaming public...
Chuck Grassley turned 89 on Sept. 17 and, if re-elected, Iowa’s senior US senator would be 95 at the end of his next term and become the second-oldest person in history to hold that position. Grassley was first elected to the Iowa House in 1958—Grassley’s son,...
