by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 6, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
Four G-O-P presidential candidates will be on stage tonight (Wednesday) for the last scheduled debate before the January 15th Iowa Caucuses. Televised debates drew large viewing audiences before the 2012 and 2016 Iowa Caucuses, but University of Iowa political science...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 6, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
A federal judge has permanently blocked two Iowa counties from enforcing ordinances that would have set restrictions for carbon pipelines. The ordinances in Shelby and Story Counties set zones around homes, schools and city limits through which pipelines were not to...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 5, 2023 | Business, News
It will cost more next year for vehicles to cross a nearly mile-long toll bridge in southeast Iowa. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway maintains the bridge, which connects Fort Madison to Illinois. It has a lower deck for trains and an upper deck for two lanes...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 4, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
North Dakota Doug Burgum has ended his presidential campaign. Burgum did not meet the polling threshold for Wednesday’s debate for GOP candidates. Burgum, who did not qualify for the debate in November, either, said the Republican National Committee’s...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 4, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn is co-sponsoring a bill that would make members of the U.S. House and Senate who are expelled ineligible for a congressional pension. “No one should be serving in congress, be excommunicated and removed from congress and still be able...
