by Jay Waagmeester, Iowa Capital Dispatch August 1, 2023 Gov. Kim Reynolds hit the road Tuesday to meet with three Sioux County hospital administrators and discuss issues facing Iowa’s rural health care providers. Sioux Center Health CEO Cory Nelson said his biggest ask of Reynolds in the meeting — which was closed to members of […]
by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 31, 2023 PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sees the Biden administration’s climate agenda as a boon for rural economies, he said Monday during a visit to Portland’s World Forestry Center. The U.S. Forest Service, which is part of the Agriculture Department, will begin accepting applications […]
by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 28, 2023 Vice President Kamala Harris stopped in Des Moines on Friday to call on Iowans to fight back against what she called a “full-on attack against hard-won freedoms.” During an hour-long stop at Des Moines’ Drake University, Harris focused on the Iowa Legislature’s recent passage of a […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 28, 2023 Iowa Republicans emphasized they were open to hearing from all 13 presidential candidates Friday at the state party’s Lincoln Dinner, but many in the audience were ready to send former President Donald Trump back for a rematch. “In Iowa, we are a neutral, objective state,” Republican […]
SAC CITY, IOWA – State Senator Adrian Dickey (R-Packwood) was arrested on Monday, July 24, while participating in RAGBRAI in northwest Iowa. According to a complaint and affidavit filed in Sac County District Court, Senator Dickey was charged with interference with official acts, a simple misdemeanor. Online court records indicate that on July 24, around […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 24, 2023 Former President Donald Trump has kept a hold on his frontrunner position as candidates head back to the Iowa campaign trail, but new polling shows there could be room for others to gain footing in the field. A Fox Business poll of Iowa Republicans published Sunday […]
by Jay Waagmeester, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 19, 2023 A record amount was invested into Iowa roads and bridges over the past year, the Iowa Department of Transportation announced Wednesday. More than $1.47 billion was awarded to contractors to improve Iowa roads and bridges between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. The spending spanned […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 17, 2023 Iowa’s corn and soybean crops were buoyed last week by above-normal rainfall and are now in their best shape since the middle of June, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Monday. About 64% of the state’s corn crop is rated good or excellent, […]
by Kathie Obradovich, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 14, 2023 Republican presidential candidates worked to appeal to about 2,000 evangelical Christians Friday at a Des Moines conference – in some cases despite critical questioning in on-stage interviews by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson. Carlson wrangled with former Vice President Mike Pence on his position that the U.S. […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch July 13, 2023 Synthetic chemicals that persist indefinitely in the environment have been detected in the water of several deep wells in parts of Iowa with porous bedrock, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The department began in late 2021 to test community water supplies for perfluoroalkyl […]
