by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 16, 2024 Legislation that might prevent the immediate release of most jail booking photos in Iowa received preliminary approval by a House subcommittee on Tuesday. House Study Bill 531 would allow county jails to withhold the photos they possess of people who are arrested until those people are […]
by Ashley Murray, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 15, 2024 Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential contest Monday night after falling short of his campaign’s expectations in the Iowa caucuses. Ramaswamy pledged to support front-runner and former President Donald Trump, who finished the nation’s first nominating contest of the election cycle with […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 15, 2024 Iowa averaged about 201 bushels of corn per acre last year, an estimate that eclipsed the previous year’s yields and ranks fourth-highest in the state’s history, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That figure is an increase of one bushel per acre from previous USDA […]
by Casey Quinlan, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 5, 2024 Friday’s jobs data showed a strong, resilient U.S. labor market with wages outpacing inflation — welcome news for Americans hoping to have more purchasing power in 2024. The December jobs report unveiled another unemployment rate below 4%, as it has for two years, at 3.7%, the […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 4, 2024 A 17-year-old student of Perry High School, armed with a shotgun, handgun and a makeshift bomb, killed a sixth-grade student and injured five others Thursday morning before the start of the school day, according to state law enforcement officials. The perpetrator was Dylan Butler, who fatally […]
by Erika Bolstad, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 2, 2024 PORTLAND, Ore. — As winter weather began arriving in mountain passes, the Oregon Department of Transportation issued a warning: The state was running out of money to plow roads and could “no longer maintain the state’s transportation system at the same level as we have in […]
by Robert Leonard, Iowa Capital Dispatch January 1, 2024 Perhaps the most taken-for-granted appliances in the home are modern washers and dryers. “We owe the invention of the washing machine to Jacob Christian Schäffer (1767),” according to Speed Queen Investor. “30 years later, an American, Nathaniel Briggs, obtained the first patent for a washing machine. […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch December 22, 2023 The Iowa Departments of Education and Health and Human Services notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture that Iowa will not participate in a program that provides additional food assistance for children during the summer, the state announced Friday. The two Iowa departments, alongside Iowa Gov. Kim […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch December 21, 2023 The state’s dryness has continued to worsen, and extreme drought now encompasses more than a third of Iowa, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor report on Thursday. The area of extreme drought — the second-worst of four classifications — has long occupied a substantial swath of […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch December 20, 2023 U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra announced Wednesday he will seek reelection for a third term representing Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. The Hull Republican asked for Iowans’ support in electing Republicans to serve in Washington, D.C. — both in U.S. Congress and the White House. Now more than […]
