Greetings! It’s been great to be back at home and engaged in community activities since the legislative session ended early last month. Over the last several weeks, I visited the Traer Historical Museum and Hansen’s Dairy in Hudson with Iowa Economic Development Authority Director ...
Q: What is Proposition 12? A: In May the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a California law known as Proposition 12 that dictates how farmers raise their livestock to gain market access to consumers in the most populous state in the country. The ruling upheld the state ballot ...
The newest occupant making its home on Main Street in a former car dealership is the Global Methodist Church. No doubt you read or heard the recent news about the schism afflicting the United Methodist Church. It came to a head in 2016, with the crux of the conflict being the issue of ...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced legislation on June 6 to improve the public’s access to information and ability to hold the federal bureaucracy accountable. The Open and Responsive Government Act aims to ...
DENISON — Gordon Wolf was everywhere in Denison. Until he wasn’t. A trusted newspaper editor, a 24-year veteran of the Denison Bulletin-Review, a bespectacled journalist fond of button-down short-sleeve shirts that date to an earlier time of ink-stained work when most newspapers had ...
June 15, 2023, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging is proud to join communities in the USA and all over the world to help raise awareness of this systemic social challenge. As Americans, we believe in justice for all. Yet we fail to live up to this ...
In Iowa and other Midwest states, agricultural excellence, robust soils, and ample outdoor recreation are points of pride. All of these elements relate to water, and depend upon healthy watersheds. For more than a decade, local leaders in Iowa have worked to address water quality and ...
When we think of climate change, we think of weather events like heat waves, droughts, extreme weather, and rising sea levels. But another important and more insidious impact of climate change is higher humidity levels, especially for the Midwest. Humidity is how much water vapor is in the air. ...
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are calling on federal employees to return to their taxpayer-funded offices or get rid of unused office space that continues to lie vacant. In a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA), the senators request GSA to ...
On May 26, Governor Kim Reynolds signed her discriminatory education bill, SF 496, into law. The bill contains measures that restrict information about sexual orientation and gender identity for grades K-6, forcibly outs transgender students, removes information about HIV and HPV from the ...