Videos
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What Miller-Meeks bought with your money over three months
Trump’s White House and US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks both use taxpayer money for ads about themselves. We pulled the receipts.
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Zach Lahn floats a 2.5-cent sales tax hike to offset nixing property taxes
GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn’s top goal is making Iowa the first state to eliminate property taxes on primary homes. Asked how he’d pay for it in the Oct. 14 debate, he said he hasn’t settled on a mechanism, and pointed to a sales tax increase as an idea “people float.”
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Rob Sand wants to ban local officials from signing data center NDAs: ‘Hogwash’
In the Oct. 14 Iowa gubernatorial debate, Democrat Rob Sand said local elected officials should not be allowed to sign nondisclosure agreements with companies like data centers that keep the public in the dark about who is building what.
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Rob Sand pitches free school lunch to lower costs, feed students
Asked at the Oct. 14 gubernatorial debate where the money would come from for free breakfast and lunch for all Iowa students, Democrat Rob Sand said going universal would draw in more federal dollars, so Iowans would pay less per meal.
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Zach Lahn refuses to give a number for school aid
The moderator of Gray Media’s Oct. 14 Iowa gubernatorial debate asked Republican Zach Lahn for the percentage he’d raise state school aid, noting inflation is 3.7%. Lahn didn’t give one. Democrat Rob Sand has said he wants 5% in year one.
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Waterloo business aren’t getting help from DC
Waterloo’s small business owners are struggling. I asked whether they’d ever gotten help from their US senators or Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is running for Senate.
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Zach Nunn ad actor can’t actually vote
An Iowan hired to support Zach Nunn in a campaign ad debunked the ad he was in, and said he can’t actually vote.
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Miller-Meeks isn’t required to live in the district she represents
Following the law isn’t the same thing as being accountable. Here’s where US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks lived, and who’s paid for it.
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Christina Bohannan told us no data center should come into a community over local opposition
Christina Bohannan, the Democrat challenging US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, told us no data center should come into a community over local opposition, and that the decision should belong to locals, not a member of Congress.
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Lindsey James said Joe Mitchell benefited from $3M in taxpayer dollars from his housing developments
Lindsey James said Joe Mitchell benefited from $3 million in taxpayer dollars through his housing developments, including a project that has his own home in it.
