On my 36 County Tour, workforce issues and labor shortages are topics of constant and repeated concern when I’m meeting with farmers, small business owners, manufacturers, childcare centers, hospitals, and other enterprises. With so many job openings in Iowa and nationwide, we need to do ...

This week was the thirteenth week of session, and it was busy with debate. The bills we debated covered issues including agriculture, appropriate teacher student relations and THC levels of products sold in Iowa. This week we also confirmed several of the governor’s appointees. We also ...

We have finished week 13 of the session, but we are continuing to pass policy bills, including bills that have come back from the Senate with amendments, as work on the budget continues. Senate File 2391, known as the Meat Integrity Act, is a bill to establish fair labeling standards on the ...

The officer took up his position across from the couch where the group of four were sitting. Two men. One woman, and a child. Probably four years old. Maybe five depending on nutrition or slow growth. From where the officer stood, he could see into the kitchen. Encrusted food caked the ...

A Sharp-shinned hawk is one of nature’s speed machines, a fast and very agile flyer that can pursue small birds through thick forested stands of trees. It likes to ambush its prey from cover, or chase its prey for a quick grasp. Small songbirds are on its menu which includes sparrows, wood ...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word “superpredators” back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism. Meanwhile, her opponent, Donald Trump, trying to sucker leftist Bernie Sanders voters into not voting ...