Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2201, the school funding bill, into law on Feb. 26. The 2% increase in per-pupil funding for the 2026-27 school year works out to $160 more per student. When the decline in public enrollment is taken into account, it’s a statewide increase of $17 ...
Government of the people belongs to the people. So, it should come as no surprise that one of their most frequent concerns is how government spends taxpayers’ money. Those concerns took me to Davenport a few weeks ago, where I spent more than an hour testifying in a lawsuit filed by Dr. ...
Democrats, suffering from denial and delusion, tend to think of themselves as the guardians of the rule of law. Back in reality, nothing could be further from the case. Consider Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who fancies herself a rule of law-championing model immigrant despite the fact she ...
Four decades ago, on Oct. 27, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed into law my bipartisan updates to the False Claims Act. At the time, I never imagined this sharpened Civil War-era tool would recoup more than $85 billion – and deter untold billions more – from fraudsters seeking to ...
Crude Jumps with Gulf Turmoil Both West Texas and Brent Crude rose sharply all week as Houthi and regional attacks in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf raised fears of global supply disruptions. Expectations of U.S. military strikes on Iran and rising tanker rates also fueled the rise. West Texas crude was up roughly $5 per bbl on the week. Turn Brown Fields into Green? CoverCress is a winter oilseed crop suddenly receiving attention from U.S. wheat farmers whose costs have risen and exports declined. It was created through plant breeding and gene editing applied to field pennycress, ...
Marshalltown is having the same conversation a lot of Iowa communities are having right now: whether data centers belong here, and if so, where and on what terms. The city's pause on new data center approvals runs through late November. Reasonable people disagreed about whether that pause was ...
