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Empowering Iowa small businesses to support America

Innovation should not just come from Washington when it is thriving right here in the heartland. In Iowa, small businesses make up 99 percent of businesses and employ more than 50 percent of the workers in our state. While these businesses have been put through the wringer by inflation and ...

Launching ‘Public School Strong’ across Iowa

Everywhere you look, you can tell it’s late summer in Iowa. The corn is coming along, beans are filling and the State Fair has wrapped up. Our kids and teachers are heading back to classrooms and feeling all the hope, anticipation and joy that comes with a new school year. I’m thrilled ...

Pro-growth tax policies support our rural communities

At the end of 2025, pro-growth, pro-worker, pro-family tax policies authorized by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire. These provisions include the nearly doubled standard deduction for Iowa families, tax cuts for small businesses, investment incentives for our farmers, ...

Misinformed echo chambers

On Aug. 14, Reuters reported that over 1,000 people had been arrested following UK riots that began in July. As reported by Reuters, the riots followed the killings of three young girls in the town of Southport. These murders are tragic enough but what seems to have set off the riots was online ...

The Man’s Man vs. the Man Child

If Kamala Harris becomes the first woman president, her first accomplishment could well have already happened — elevating and honoring the positive side of masculinity. Tim Walz, whose politics are to the left of most Americans and certainly most swing voters, has been welcomed not as a ...

The Olympic Refugee Team was an inspiration — and a tragedy

Of all the memorable moments from this year’s Olympics, there’s one in particular that will stay with me. As the spectacular parade of lighted boats sailed up the Seine to open the games, among them was a small craft filled with 37 competitors in white uniforms. Their flag carrier was ...