Politics

Iowa’s ever-changing, new election laws can sometimes confuse even the folks in charge of overseeing elections. A commercial from the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office that aired on KCRG Thursday morning incorrectly listed the date when early in-person voting at a county auditor’s office starts. See the video here: https://new.iowastartingline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/05/IMG_2020.mov  The correct date for early…

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Council Bluffs once played host to one of the most famous figures in underground crime. Meyer Lansky, AKA “The Mob’s Accountant,” lived seasonally in the Western Iowa city for a period in the early 1940s while he operated the Dodge Park Kennel Club. The dog-racing track was just east…

Abortion remains legal in Iowa—for now. In Iowa, a woman has the right to an abortion up until about 20 weeks of her pregnancy. A later-term abortion—unless it is “performed to preserve the life or health of the pregnant person”—is considered a Class C felony in Iowa.  The rules for a minor female seeking an…

Hy-Vee corporate workers who turn down an “offer” to switch to the retail end of the business will still be able to collect unemployment benefits, according to Iowa Code. The West Des Moines-based grocer ran an ad designed to look like a news article in several major Midwest newspapers Wednesday to announce that 500 corporate…

Pottawattamie County residents want a bigger say in how the county uses federal COVID relief dollars after the board of supervisors used $2 million to purchase a ski hill without public input. Calling themselves the Concerned Citizens of Pottawattamie County, the group made up of residents and activists has hosted town halls in Oakland and…

The Republican-run Iowa House agreed to cut benefits for unemployed workers by 10 weeks yesterday in a move critics say will cause an even further exodus of workers out of a state that desperately needs them. The Iowa Legislature’s vote to cut unemployment benefits from 26 to 16 weeks is expected to be signed by…

First-term Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has long dabbled with online fringe conspiracy theories, and two more recent incidents add to the pile. Photos posted by Miller-Meeks’ campaign manager a week ago on Twitter show volunteers putting together yard signs while posing in front of flags that include one used by a far-right, anti-government militia. The “Three…

Rep. Ashley Hinson, a Marion Republican representing Northeast Iowa, took a wide range of questions from Ukraine to Social Security to Jan. 6 defendants and more during two town hall meetings in Brooklyn and Marshalltown on Thursday. Jan. 6 Insurrection At Hinson’s first stop Thursday morning at the Brooklyn Opera House in Poweshiek County, a…

Sen. Chuck Grassley won’t support any currently proposed federal legislation that reforms state election laws. Iowa’s senior Republican US senator made that point clear after being pressed by a constituent during a town hall in Pocahontas on Tuesday.   “What about gerrymandering?” Grassley was asked. “As you just acknowledged a while ago, only a handful of…

Iowa Senate Republicans passed an amended child-care bill on Monday that included language to address daycare worker shortages by putting teenagers to work. House File 2198 allows 16- and 17-year-old employees and substitutes at child care centers to watch school-aged children without supervision. Senate Republicans amended the bill to change the minimum ratios of children-to-providers…