Did you make a new year’s resolution for 2025? Full confession…I didn’t. According to U.S. News and World Report, around eighty percent of new year’s resolutions fail by mid-February. That expensive Peloton? For lots of Americans, it’s collecting dust. That special edition of the ...

I had lots of visitors from our district this week at the Capitol, which is always welcome and encouraged! It was great to brainstorm ways to tell Marshalltown’s unique story with Director of Tourism Dylan Does on Iowa Tourism night and to see the Marshall County Veterans Affairs team of ...

It is week two in the legislative session. This week I was the chair of four subcommittees regarding the following house files: HF 41, HF 45, HF 46, and HF 32. These bills passed subcommittee and will now be moving forward to committee. This week, Iowa House Democrats repeated their ...

The old priest asked me how I was doing. I had almost died of alcoholism a few short weeks before. I fell through the glass top of my coffee table, drunk, cut myself up like a hog ready for butcher and nearly bled to death. But it was the best thing that could have happened to me. The ...

Week 2 of the session is done, and the committee work of moving bills through the system is well underway. The first bill that I’ve begun to advance is a resolution, House Joint Resolution 1, that seeks to add the right to hunt, fish and trap to the state constitution. Our rights to these ...

President Trump sounded a lot of populist notes on the campaign trail. But as he took the oath of office for the second time, he was joined onstage by billionaires and CEOs who’d spent millions to be there — leaving supporters who’d traveled across the country to attend literally out in ...