There are just six weeks left in the Iowa Caucus campaign season and two of the leading candidates made their case directly to Iowans this past weekend. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke to a crowd in Newton Saturday, marking Jasper County as the 99th one he’s visited. “Are you ready to make history, Iowa?” DeSantis ..read more

The four Iowans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to expel George Santos, the now-former New York congressman accused of using campaign funds on personal expenses and making tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges on donors’ credit cards. Three members of Iowa’s U.S. House delegation released written statements after today’s vote ..read more

Former President Donald Trump, who’ll be campaigning in Iowa tomorrow, says he still wants to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with something better, but Senator Chuck Grassley suggests Senate Republicans have little interest in reviving the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Getting down the cost of health care generally — that’s all I ..read more

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s campaign is highlighting an endorsement from a long-time mechanic of grassroots politics in Iowa. Marlys Popma, a former executive director of the Iowa Republican Party, joined Haley in an hour long telephone town hall meeting last night. “Don’t look at what the media is telling you. Don’t look at the ..read more

The country’s largest book publisher, four authors and the state teachers union have filed a lawsuit challenging part of a new Iowa law that requires schools to remove books that describe or depict sex acts. “Senate File 496 is a book ban, plain and simple,” Dan Novack, Vice President and Associated General Council for Penguin ..read more

The husband of a Sioux City woman convicted of 52 counts of voter fraud says he intends to complete his term on the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors. Jeremy Taylor’s term ends next year. His wife was convicted last week of illegally collecting votes in Sioux City’s Vietnamese community for her husband when he was ..read more

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn parts of a new state law that forbids instruction about sexual orientation in elementary classrooms. It also requires schools to remove books with graphic sexual content and school administrators are to notify a parent when a student asks to ..read more

Senator Chuck Grassley says if Republicans in the U.S. Senate stick together, they may be able to force Democrats to put immigration policy changes in an aid package for Israel and Ukraine. “Making it more certain who can qualify for asylee,” Grassley says, “the ‘return to Mexico’ issue that Trump put in place — in ..read more

There’s a new online portal for Iowans to pay next year’s state income taxes. It’s called GonnectIowa. “That’s where people can go and have access to their individual tax information,” says Iowa Department of Revenue director Mary Mosiman. Iowans can make estimated state income tax payments up to a year in advance through the new ..read more

Iowa Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks says research is showing psychedelic drugs “have the potential” to be a mental health treatment option for veterans. Miller-Meeks, a Republican who represents Iowa’s first congressional district, is chair of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health. She led a recent congressional hearing about psychedelics — drugs that cause hallucinations ..read more