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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges launches new certificate with industry partners

Eastern Iowa Community Colleges is launching a process technician certification program with industry partners. (Photo courtesy of Eastern Iowa Community Colleges)

by Brooklyn Draisey, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 22, 2025 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges has launched a new program in partnership with private companies to bolster workforce pipelines and give students a fast path to skilled employment. The community college system announced in a news release this week nine students will start classes next week in […]

USDA restricts funding for wind and solar projects, points to protection of prime farmland

A small solar field in Boone. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 22, 2025 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it would restrict the use of federal subsidies for solar energy projects in favor of protecting farmland, but clean energy advocates say solar gives farmers a higher production value per acre than any traditional crop. A press release from […]

Iowa National Guard soldiers deployed to assist immigration enforcement

Iowa National Guard members will be deployed to assist federal immigrant enforcement efforts, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Aug. 12, 2025. Guard members are shown here marching in a parade at the Iowa State Fair. (Photo courtesy of Iowa National Guard)

by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 12, 2025 Iowa National Guard soldiers will deploy to provide support for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in September, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Tuesday. The deployment, set to begin Sept. 8, will involve 20 National Guard soldiers providing “administrative and logistical support” to ICE officials based […]

Trump mobilizes D.C. National Guard, pledges similar crackdown in Democratic cities

President Donald Trump announces a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., during a White House press conference on Aug. 11, 2025. Standing behind Trump are, from left to right, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. (Image via White House livestream)

by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 11, 2025 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asserted control Monday of the District of Columbia police force and mobilized 800 National Guard troops in the nation’s capital under what he declared a “crime emergency.” Trump took the step despite a three-decade low in violent crime in Washington, D.C., while […]

Several Iowa GOP lawmakers reject task force idea to change IPERS

(Logo courtesy of the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System; photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 11, 2025 Several Iowa Republican lawmakers have assured Iowans there is not significant interest in making changes to the state’s public retirement system after the idea was suggested last week by members of a task force appointed by the governor. Terry Lutz, who chaired a work group within […]

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announces new rural development investments at Iowa State Fair

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins presented the steer Snoop Dog at the Governor’s Charity Steer Show during the Iowa State Fair Aug. 9, 2025. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 9, 2025 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins came to the Iowa State Fair Saturday to compete in the Governor’s Charity Steer Show — and to announce $152 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture investments for Iowa rural development projects. Before heading to the Livestock Pavilion to show […]

Iowa crop conditions overall good following hot, wet week

Soybeans growing in a western Iowa field in August 2023. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 28, 2025 Corn rated nearly 90% good to excellent during the reporting period from July 21 through July 27, while wet conditions limited farmers’ activities in the field, according to the latest crop progress and condition report. Iowa crops continue to progress slightly ahead of schedule while above-average […]

Iowa GOP incumbents outraise challengers in latest campaign finance reports

U.S. Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, incumbent Republicans, raised more than their Democratic challengers in the most recent FEC reporting period. (Photos by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch; photo illustration via Canva)

by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 16, 2025 Several of Iowa’s congressional races are expected to be competitive in 2026 — but incumbent Republicans kept their fundraising leads in most races, according to the latest Federal Election Commission reports. U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn, Republicans representing Iowa’s 1st and 3rd districts respectively, […]

Hunters in 2024 saw Iowa’s second-highest pheasant harvest since 2007

Pheasant harvests in 2024 were slightly down from the previous year, but still one of the highest seasons in nearly two decades. (Image courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 11, 2025 Pheasant hunters in Iowa saw high-bag years in both 2023 and 2024. Harvest data for the fall season released by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources shows an estimated 460,000 roosters were bagged in the 2024 season, making it the second-best pheasant season in nearly two […]

Midwest farm economies suffered while some Sun Belt states kept rolling in early 2025

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an economic winning streak, according to a Stateline analysis of federal economic data for the first quarter. (Photo by Gary Stone, Nebraska Extension/Courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

by Tim Henderson ǀ Stateline, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 14, 2025 Global clashes and trade wars hammered Midwestern states’ agricultural economies early this year, while a continuing boom in Southeastern states’ housing and tech jobs kept their economies humming along. Some Southeastern states were seeing a strong agricultural economy because of still-rising poultry and egg […]

                 

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