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The proposed merger of the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads will roughly triple train traffic through the Quad-Cities. (Photo via Canva) There was a dose of news over…
Gov. Kim Reynolds addressed a town hall hosted by the conservative nonprofit Moms for Liberty Feb. 2, 2023, discussing “parental rights” legislation in Iowa. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)…
Gov. Kim Reynolds is escorted into the Iowa House of Representatives, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 10, 2023, to give the annual Condition of the State address, at the Iowa State…
Republican lawmakers said they hope to finalize public education funding by Feb. 10, to give school districts enough time to finalize their budgets. (Stock image via Canva) The Iowa Senate…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shown here in a June 2019 file photo with then-U.S. President Donald Trump, was among current and former socialist leaders condemned in a U.S.…
Trucks deliver recently harvested grain in western Iowa. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Limits on liability for trucking companies are speeding through the Iowa Legislature. The House Judiciary Committee…
Rep. Ilhan Omar, center, shown here in a Nov. 30, 2021 file photo with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, left, and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
The Senate passed legislation to fix a property tax error that would have increased residential property taxes by up to $133 million. (Photo by carebott/Getty Images) The Iowa Senate passed…
An aerial view of the American flags flying over an international bridge as immigrants line up next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence to seek asylum on Dec. 22, 2022 in…
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy answers questions from reporters at the U.S. Capitol about debt limit talks at the White House, on Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)…
Iowa’s senators highlighted problems with uncontested barriers to trade, including Mexico’s potential blockade of genetically modified corn. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) WASHINGTON – In its first meeting of the…
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say hundreds of billions of federal COVID relief dollars have been stolen, though a final total remains unclear. (Photo by Scalinger/iStock Getty Images) WASHINGTON —…
Proposed legislation would require all school districts to have specific procedures for book challenges. (Photo by Diyosa Carter/Getty Images) A bill that received preliminary approval by an Iowa House subcommittee…
Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate are advancing a 3% increase in per-pupil state aid for Iowa K-12 schools. (Photo courtesy of Phil Roeder/Des Moines Public Schools) Republican state…
The governor’s proposal for over-the-counter birth control drew praise from abortion-rights groups and criticism from abortion opponents. (Photo by Getty Images) Advocates on both sides of the abortion debate praised…