by O. Kay Henderson | May 1, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
Governor Kim Reynolds has approved the plan that will shrink Iowa’s individual income tax to a single rate of 3.8% next year. Lawmakers say it will amount to a billion dollar cut in state income taxes. “When I took office, Iowa’s personal income tax...
by O. Kay Henderson | May 1, 2024 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
Governor Reynolds has signed two insurance-related bills into law this morning. One requires that insurance plans cover diagnostic tests like MRIs that are used to detect breast cancer. Forty-nine-year-old Kimberly Pearson of Oskaloosa, a breast cancer survivor, is a...
by O. Kay Henderson | May 1, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
A spokesman for Governor Reynolds says about 10 percent of state government job classifications require a bachelor’s degree. Kollin Crompton, the governor’s spokesman, is responding to State Auditor Rob Sand’s announcement that he’d...
by O. Kay Henderson | May 1, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
State Auditor Rob Sand says he’s worked with a non-profit group and identified more than two dozen state job classifications that could be rewritten to widen the pool of applicants. Sand, a Democrat, says Opportunity at Work did a similar analysis for Republican...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 30, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
The Iowa Supreme Court has directed a lower court to do more fact finding to determine if State Auditor Rob Sand violated Iowa’s public records law. The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously reversed a district court ruling that Sand was legally justified in denying a...