by O. Kay Henderson | Feb 19, 2018 | News, Politics & Government, Top Story
A bill that’s ready for debate in the Iowa Senate would require five of the seven justices on the Iowa Supreme Court to agree when ruling that a state law is unconstitutional. Senator Julian Garrett, a Republican from Indianola who is an attorney, said during...
by O. Kay Henderson | Sep 25, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government
Concerns over the future of the United States Supreme Court drew a crowd of more than 600 Iowa evangelical Christians to its feet this weekend. GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence spoke at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s fall banquet Saturday night....
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 20, 2016 | News, Politics & Government
Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has been President Obama’s first and only Secretary of Agriculture and he is starting to reflect on his tenure at the USDA. “I’ve been challenged in the last couple of months to start thinking about, you know:...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jun 12, 2016 | News, Politics & Government
The annual “Pridefest” in Des Moines took on new meaning after Sunday morning’s mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Martha Miller-Johnson of Des Moines was part of the Pridefest scene Sunday afternoon just blocks from the state capitol. She...
by O. Kay Henderson | Nov 8, 2015 | News, Politics & Government, Religion
Three GOP presidential candidates made a direct appeal to nearly 1700 Christian conservatives at this weekend’s National Religious Liberties Conference in Des Moines. Each of the candidates denounced this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex...