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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) got more in line with some Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations (DCI) requirements during Monday morning’s regular school board meeting. The board approved changes to the National Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) ...
A pharmacist fired from the state-run Iowa Veterans Home is now suing the state, alleging discrimination based on age, gender and disability. Kimberly Helmbrecht, who was hired at the Iowa Veterans Home in early April 2020 during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, is suing the ...
