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‘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 ...
Study: Marshalltown needs housing of all types
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on the building of new apartments, town-homes and more in Marshalltown by its major employers. In recent years several have spent funds or provided other assets in the building of apartments, town houses and more specifically for ...
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 ...
Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit highlights efficiency; critics call for more funding
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said Thursday that recommendations about increased staffing and funding for existing Medicaid fraud elimination efforts will come at later meetings of the state Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force. The task force was established by executive order July 1 by ...
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 ...