by Dar Danielson | Feb 8, 2016 | News, Politics & Government, Top Story
Governor Terry Branstad isn’t happy that Democrats in the Iowa Senate are pushing a bill that would stop the Republican Branstad’s plan to move the 560,000 Medicaid patients in Iowa into private managed care plans. Former Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat,...
by O. Kay Henderson | Sep 15, 2014 | Business, News, Politics & Government
Governor Terry Branstad says he’s too busy campaigning to be questioned about his attempt to force the state workers compensation commissioner to resign. “I’m very interested and willing to have a deposition, but we’ll have it after the...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 14, 2014 | News, Politics & Government, Top Story
The two major party candidates for governor met in their first, face-to-face debate of the campaign Thursday. Republican Governor Terry Branstad and Democratic challenger Jack Hatch quarreled over the past and traded jabs over their proposals for the future. Hatch...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 4, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government
The state official who filed a lawsuit, charging Governor Branstad targeted him for dismissal because he is gay, has a new job in Washington, D.C. Iowa Worker’s Compensation Commissioner Christopher Godfrey has been appointed chief judge of a federal board the decides...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 8, 2014 | News, Politics & Government
Republican Governor Terry Branstad is dismissing a Legislative Services Agency report which concludes an embattled state agency isn’t saving money after outsourcing jobs — and the state workforce is growing rather than shrinking. “If you analyze in...