by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 20, 2024 The pace of corn and soybean planting accelerated last week amid a rainfall reprieve for much of the state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers planted more than a fifth of the overall expected acres for each crop that week and edged closer to […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 17, 2024 Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday signed the final slate of bills remaining from the 2024 legislative session, including new laws related to the regulation of hemp-derived product and changes to the state’s boards and commissions. The signing of 20 bills marked the end of action on […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 9, 2024 For the first time in nearly two years, no part of Iowa has extreme drought — the second-worst dryness classification of the U.S. Drought Monitor. A new report on Thursday that takes into account the significant rainfall of last week and early this week shows the […]
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 8, 2024 WASHINGTON — The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said at a congressional hearing Wednesday the agency is preparing for the possibility the strain of avian influenza affecting dairy cattle could jump to humans, though he cautioned the probability is low. Robert Califf told […]
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 […]
