The U.S. Postal Service would have to continue Saturday mail delivery for two more years and would face a one-year moratorium on closing rural post offices under a bill the U.S. Senate approved yesterday. Both of Iowa's senators voted for final passage... »
The Iowa Senate approved a broad education reform bill yesterday on a party-line vote of 26 to 24. Details on Senate File 2284 and the floor debate in the upper chamber are after the jump. I've also included the latest news on efforts to stop Iowa scho... »
After several hours of delay due to a suspicious powder mailed to State Representative Ako Abdul-Samad, the Iowa House passed a bill last night to ban local governments from using "automated traffic law enforcement systems." The 58 to 40 vote didn't fo... »
Friday marked the second anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as health care reform or "Obamacare." After the jump I enclose lots of news related to the milestone, including c... »
The Iowa legislature's second "funnel" deadline passed on Friday, which means that most non-appropriations bills are dead unless they have been approved in one chamber and in at least one committee in the other chamber. It's time to catch up on the mos... »
Senate District 48 Registration: D 12220, R 13068, N 17711, total 43047, R +848 No Incumbent; Contested Republican primary. House District 95 Registration: D 6981, R 6722, N 8525, total 22267, D +259 Open seat: incumbent Nate Willems, D-Lisbon running ... »
Senate District 37 Registration: D 16602, R 11168, N 15371, total 43197, D +5434 Incumbent: Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville; holdover seat A new point on the compass for Bob Dvorsky. He was first elected to the House in 1986 in a seat that went west to Iowa ... »
Iowa first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses produced two winners and one big loser – the Republican Party of Iowa. Initial results showed Mitt Romney won the January caucuses by eight votes, but after the results from more than 1,700 individual precinct... »
