The president’s actions will not release any federal prisoners, but will lift barriers to housing, employment, and educational opportunities for those convicted of the offenses.
Iowa won’t participate in a federal program to feed underprivileged kids next summer, and Gov. Kim Reynolds cited “childhood obesity” as one of the reasons why. The state had until Jan. 1 to apply to the US Department of Agriculture’s Summer EBT program that would...
SF 496, Iowa's new education law, is too vague, too broad, and too restrictive of speech and individual rights. That's according to lawyers arguing, in separate cases, for the US District Court Southern District of Iowa to place a preliminary injunction on the law....
House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst (D-Windsor Heights) and her Democratic colleagues know Iowans are exhausted and disappointed by the Iowa Legislature. “We hear from people all the time: ‘This is not the state I grew up in,’ and they're concerned and they're...
Chief Political Correspondent Ty Rushing wrote about the North Liberty wastewater treatment plant and the people who keep it running after touring the facility with state Rep. Amy Nielsen.
Watch Rep. Megan Srivinas (D-Des Moines), who is also a medical doctor, discuss why one of her patients needed to have an abortion to undergo chemotherapy treatment after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. @iowastartingline Rep. Megan Srivinas...
Iowa had a number of "WTF" news stories in 2023. We recapped some of them including the Satanic Temple drama, the fallout between Kim Reynolds and Donald Trump, and more.
About 115,000 households in Iowa have enrolled in President Biden’s Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides discounts on internet bills.
While the pay bump will affect the 202 active duty service members in Iowa, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act is just the latest example of the increasingly partisan landscape of modern American politics.
While unleashing a tirade of lies alongside threats to his political enemies during a nearly 90-minute speech in Coralville on Wednesday, former president Donald Trump told a particularly notable whopper about American gas prices. “Gasoline prices are now $5, $6,...
