by Brooklyn Draisey, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 8, 2024 When Yi-Yu Wang pictures the future, she hopes for a day when someone can just pop an empty water bottle in their car’s tank when running low on gas in order to deliver the energy it needs to keep driving. A graduate research assistant in the […]
by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 7, 2024 TikTok and its Chinese parent company on Tuesday challenged a recently enacted federal law banning the short-form video platform from the United States if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner. TikTok Inc., the U.S. company that operates the popular social media service, and ByteDance, […]
by Zach Spindler-Krage, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 4, 2024 When Kevin Hosbond was teaching English and coaching speech in the rural southeast Iowa school district of Fairfield, his position was on the chopping block three separate times. Each time, students and parents convinced the school board to save his position. Kevin Hosbond, an English teacher […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 2, 2024 Dairy cattle infected by avian influenza in recent months have surprisingly large amounts of the virus in their milk but little in other bodily fluids, according to tests by the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. That makes it easy to confirm whether a lactating cow […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 1, 2024 Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a measure speeding up income tax cuts, lowering Iowa’s individual income tax to a 3.8% single tax rate beginning in 2025. Reynolds signed Senate File 2442 into law Wednesday, a measure speeding up the cut made in 2022 to decrease […]
by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 30, 2024 The Biden administration plans to remove marijuana from a list of the most dangerous and highly regulated drugs, the Department of Justice said Tuesday night. The Drug Enforcement Administration will propose moving the drug from a Schedule I substance, which also includes heroin and methamphetamine, to […]
by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 30, 2024 A Cedar Rapids city employee is seeking workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he attributes to the city’s repeated promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine. State and court records indicate that in April 2021, the City of Cedar Rapids began hosting vaccine clinics and sending out emails and […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 29, 2024 Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed on to a letter Monday alongside 47 other state governors, as well as five territories and commonwealths, opposing the Biden administration’s move to incorporate Air National Guard service members into the Space Force. The letter from the National Governors’ Association, addressed […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 23, 2024 In their final days of the 2024 legislative session, Iowa lawmakers approved $8.9 billion in state spending for the upcoming year, financing the state government and public services. Most of those decisions now await a thumbs up or down from the governor. Appropriations bills included funding […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 21, 2024 As Iowa lawmakers ended the 2024 legislative session, Republican leaders said they passed their priorities, including changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies, many K-12 education initiatives and income tax cuts. “Iowa has set a course for transformation, and it was the driving force of the 2024 […]
