Annual Watson's Fall Festival held in downtown State Center Friday
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Iowa lawmakers could return for special session on steel plant tax incentives before midterms
A Democratic state senator on the Senate’s tax-writing committee said Friday that timing on a potential special session reported Friday is “suspicious” as the 2026 general election draws near. The Des Moines Register first reported lawmakers are considering a potential special session in October. Kevin McCarthy, chief of staff for Iowa House Minority Leader Brian Meyer, sent an email to Iowa House Democrats Thursday stating House Democratic leaders “have been in communication with the lobby firm that has been retained by a company in the steel industry wishing to have an ...
DAILY RECORD
Marshall County Courthouse Court Sept. 25 • Christopher Lane Goodman made an initial appearance on a possession of drug paraphernalia charge. Goodman pleaded guilty and the fine is $250 with a $37.50 surcharge and $60 in court costs for a total of $347.50. • Jakob Anthony Sells made an initial appearance on a violation of probation charge. The public defender’s office is appointed as counsel. The probation revocation hearing is set for 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 21. Sells is being held without bond. A mental health and substance abuse evaluation is ordered with the results submitted ...
‘This is how you rebuild rural Iowa’
Chris Jones, an author and former research scientist at the University of Iowa, has been sounding the alarm on Iowa’s water quality issues for about a decade now, and the Democrat who hopes to become the state’s next secretary of agriculture focused primarily on that familiar topic during ...
Oktemberfest is underway
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GOP Congressional candidate Joe Mitchell visits Tama-Toledo area Thursday
TOLEDO — Joe Mitchell, a real estate developer and former state representative who hopes to represent Iowa’s 2nd District in Congress come January, made several stops in the Tama-Toledo area on Thursday accompanied by his onetime colleague in the Iowa Legislature, Rep. Dean Fisher ...