DES MOINES— Gov. Reynolds today announced she has appointed Chris Cournoyer as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. Cournoyer, a resident of LeClaire, Iowa, was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2018. She chaired the inaugural Technology committee, from which position she wrote and managed the legislation that made Iowa the sixth state in the nation to […]
DES MOINES— Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered all flags in Iowa to fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, December 7, 2024, in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Pearl Harbor was attacked 83 years ago. 2,403 service members and civilians were killed. “More than 80 years later, the unprovoked attack on Pearl […]
by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch December 2, 2024 Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, along with governors from 16 other states, signed a joint letter Monday urging Congress to reauthorize the Farm Bill and to provide “immediate financial assistance” to the agricultural sector. “Our nation’s agriculture industry is in trouble and if meaningful support is not […]
Discussion at the Holidays By Sonya Sellmeyer, Consumer Advocacy Officer for the Iowa Insurance Division This holiday season Iowans will gather with loved ones and it is a great time for an open discussion about the location of important documents which detail end-of-life plans. An end-of-life plan is a set of arrangements or decisions made […]
DES MOINES– Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of Dustin Hite as a district judge in Judicial District 8A. Hite, of New Sharon, Iowa, serves as the mayor of New Sharon, and is a partner at Heslinga Law Firm. He received his undergraduate degree from Central College and law degree from the University of […]
by Robin Opsahl and Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 26, 2024 Gov. Kim Reynolds plans to propose banning cellphones in Iowa K-12 schools as a top priority heading into the upcoming 2025 legislative session. The governor first announced her intent to bring up the issue in the January 2025 Condition of the State address […]
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 25, 2024 WASHINGTON — Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst began proposing ways to cut government spending to the Trump team this weekend, but she’ll need to convince her colleagues in Congress if her ideas are going to have any chance of taking effect — like ending the manufacture […]
(JOHNSTON, IA) – Fareway Stores, Inc. and the Iowa Farm Bureau partnered together to donate 26,950 lbs. of ground protein to food banks across Iowa in the ‘Meat the Need’ campaign. For every 10 lb. tube of ground beef sold at Fareway September 16th – 21st, one pound of lean protein was donated to local […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (Nov. 18, 2024) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this […]
by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 11, 2024 Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 million acres of cover crops in the 2023 crop year. INREC initiated the yearly survey in 2017 as part of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy to track […]
