by Jennifer Shutt and Shauneen Miranda, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 12, 2025 This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The longest shutdown in U.S. history ended Wednesday night when President Donald Trump signed a spending package that reopens the government and funds most of it through January. The Oval Office ceremony came just hours after […]
WASHINGTON — The United States Mint struck the final circulating one-cent coin on November 12, 2025, ending 232 years of penny production. The coin will remain legal tender, but no new pennies will enter general circulation. According to the Mint, it cost 3.69 cents to produce and distribute each penny during Fiscal Year 2024 — […]
by Shauneen Miranda, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 4, 2025 This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Tuesday failed for the 14th time to advance a stopgap spending bill to fund the government, as the ongoing shutdown hit 35 days and is now tied with the shutdown of 2018-2019 as the longest ever. […]
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 27, 2025 WASHINGTON — The stakes of the ongoing government shutdown rose Monday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture doubled down on its position that food benefits for November could not be paid and a union for federal workers implored lawmakers to pass a stopgap measure. As the […]
by Shauneen Miranda and Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 24, 2025 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo Friday the agency’s contingency fund cannot legally be used to provide food assistance benefits for more than 42 million people in November, as the government shutdown drags on. The position is a reversal […]
by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 24, 2025 The 75 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits will see a 2.8% increase in payments next year, the Social Security Administration said Friday. The cost-of-living adjustment is just below the inflation rate of 3% announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, also on Friday. The adjustment is […]
Musco Sponsors First Annual Global Youth Sports Exchange Program to China OSKALOOSA, IA – A youth girls softball team from the Oskaloosa, Iowa, area is finishing up their season with international friendships. These 11 players, along with their coaches and families, traveled to Shanghai, China, earlier this year to participate in the inaugural Global Youth […]
by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 22, 2025 The U.S. Department of Agriculture rolled out a plan Wednesday to help “strengthen” the cattle industry and lower consumer prices for beef. The plan comes three weeks into the government shutdown and shortly after a proposal from President Donald Trump to import beef from Argentina to […]
OSKALOOSA, Iowa — For the third year in a row, Musco Lighting has been named a Top Workplaces company by the Des Moines Register, an honor determined entirely by employee feedback. The 2025 award is based on confidential surveys administered by Energage, which evaluate respect, support, growth opportunity, and workplace culture. “We’re incredibly proud to […]
by Katie McKellar, Alixel Cabrera and Kyle Dunphey, Iowa Capital Dispatch September 10, 2025 Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after he was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon that a person of interest was in custody, but […]
