Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced in a statement on Thursday that the state will cease declaring COVID-19 a public health emergency on Feb. 15. ”We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely. After two years, it’s no longer feasible or necessary. The flu and other infectious illnesses are … Continued
An Iowa representative introduced Tuesday a bill that would allow parents to watch live footage of their children in public school classrooms. “I think we need to showcase the great work our teachers do,” Rep. Norlin Mommsen, R-DeWitt, a farmer, told The Center Square in a phone interview Tuesday. He said that through the COVID-19 pandemic, parents … Continued
For the first time in at least 15 years, an Iowa governor has not recommended funding changes for Medicaid. The announcement was made by Legislative Service Agency Analyst Jess Benson as he presented Gov. Kim Reynolds’ fiscal year 2023 Department of Health and Human Services budget recommendations Tuesday. Benson said the Department of Management and … Continued
Several career-focused educational grants and funding opportunities were announced last week for Iowa institutions. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced funding initiatives in her 2022 Condition of the State Address, including the first-in-the nation Teacher and Paraeducator Registered Apprenticeship Grant Program. Through the program, current high school students can earn paraeducator certificates and associates degrees, and paraeducators can … Continued
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday proposed a tax cuts omnibus in her fourth Condition of the State speech. “Under these high ceilings, next to this marble, among these columns and portraits, it’s tempting to believe that nothing good happens unless we legislate it, regulate it, or fund it. But in the small towns, around kitchen … Continued
Iowa’s labor commissioner has announced the state will not enforce the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate meant for businesses with 100 workers or more. In a statement, Commissioner Rod Roberts explained that “after reviewing the mandate — Iowa will not adopt the federal standard,” KCCI reported Saturday. Roberts continued: Iowa doesn’t have a standard requiring the Covid-19 vaccine or … Continued
Hogs born Jan. 1, 2022, or later are subject to California’s Prop 12. Some Iowa agricultural leaders have criticized the law, which prohibits the sale of pork from hogs that are the offspring of sows that were raised in pens with less than 24 square feet of usable floorspace per pig. California accounts for about … Continued
Once again, several states are pushing back against the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mandates. Two dozen states asked a federal court Tuesday to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration for Children and Families from requiring Head Start program staff, certain contractors and volunteers to wear masks and be fully … Continued
Slamming Roe v. Wade as a “fatal mistake,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds joined pro-life women leaders across the country Monday in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to restore protections for unborn babies. The Des Moines Register reports Reynolds said the Supreme Court has “its best opportunity yet” to overturn Roe v. Wade when it hears a major abortion case, Dobbs … Continued
As Americans continue to suffer under the supply chain crisis that remains unmitigated and even mocked by the Biden administration, Republican governors are taking action to propose a solution to get the country’s goods moving again. “Operation Open Roads” is the name of the plan hatched by 15 Republican governors that aims to alleviate the … Continued
Iowans are experiencing record past-year inflation and, as a result, are faced with tough decisions. Nationally, prices industry-wide have experienced the largest past-year increase, 6.2%, since November 1990 (before seasonal adjustment), the U.S. Department of Labor reported Wednesday . Removing food and energy from the equation, the consumer price index (CPI) has risen 4.6%, which is the … Continued
Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) enthusiastic appearance at a Trump event in Iowa over the weekend shows that the former president has further strengthened his grip on the GOP following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The Iowa senator’s eagerness to stand next to Trump at a boisterous rally in Des Moines only days after … Continued
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