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Despite entities across the state saying proof of COVID-19 vaccination won’t be required, the House judiciary committee yesterday discussed a bill to ban Iowa from putting a person’s vaccination status on personal identification cards. House File 889 also bans businesses from requiring people on the premises provide vaccination proof. If a business or government-owned establishment—like […]
The legislative session may be winding down, but the fight over budget priorities is still going strong. One of those fights concerns the resources and support systems for victims of crime, and how those groups who handle that are funded. Currently, the state-level funding is running out. But other sources aren’t so secure, either, especially […]
Iowa Senate Republicans are trying another attack on Iowans who receive federal food assistance. Earlier this year, Iowa Senate Republicans passed Senate File 389, to impose new procedural barriers to federal food assistance (SNAP), Medicaid, and the Hawk-I children’s health program, and a new asset test ($2,250 for most households) for SNAP to kick off […]
Iowa law enforcement would have greater freedom to commit “clearly egregious” conduct and protesters could be more likely to be struck by cars, according to legislation passed by the Iowa House of Representatives on Wednesday evening. Rep. Jarad Klein introduced an amendment reinserting language from Senate File 476, also known as the “Back the Blue” […]
History is written by the victors, and education about that history is usually determined that way, too. And the truth comes out when that power is challenged. In 2020, Nikole Hannah-Jones, an Iowa native and reporter for New York Times Magazine, won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her introductory essay for the 1619 Project, […]
Despite widespread opposition from their constituents, the push by Republican lawmakers to add language to the Iowa Constitution effectively banning abortion has moved forward. Less than one third of Iowans support the measure, and fifty eight percent oppose it, according to the most recent Iowa poll conducted by the Des Moines Register. The Republican-majority Senate […]
Iowa’s poor investment in state services and prioritization of tax cuts has held the state back, according to Democratic legislators. And in the waning days of the legislative session, legislators are now trying to wrap up the last items of business for the year, including the budget going forward. Currently, the legislature is working on […]
The proposed anti-trans legislation introduced this session may have failed, but the topic isn’t dead. For a bizarre, brief moment Rep. Sandy Salmon seized a moment to attack trans students. During the debate on HF 847, a bill about education programs in Iowa, Salmon introduced amendment H-1270, which would include a section barring trans girls […]
